Planted Flag

Planted Flag is an application/toy I created to get back into C++ coding. The beautiful, easy-to-read source code behind it is available here. You can browse this code to see a wide range of classes and utilities or to get a feel for my coding style. (A windows-runnable exe can also be downloaded here.) Pretty much all the functionality you see is hand-written. The only libraries I use are math.h for some basic math routines and the windows console API to work with low-level console functionality.

Planted Flag has the following features:

• Physics Engine
  • Simulation of springs, wind, drag, turbulence, and gravity
  • 2nd order Runge Kutter solver for enhanced stability
  • Real-time controls
• 3D graphics tools - Objects, Transformation Matrices, Vectors
• Text-based Console rendering engine
  • Lines, points, text, and color
  • Mouse manipulation
  • Widget controls
• Mathematics and physics concepts:
  • n-Body Physics simulation
  • Runge Kutte Ordinary Differential Equation solver
  • Spring force calculations
  • Perlin Noise to simulate turbulence
  • Viscous Drag and gravity simulation
  • Matrix and Vector math
  • 3D transformations
• C++ classes and concepts in use:
  • Matrices & Vectors
  • Polymorphism (Widget classes)
  • Dictionary/Hash table
  • Linked Lists
  • Animation Loop
  • WIndows Console API
  • Memory management

Here's a screen shot: