Installation

On Desktop

1. Download the latest release

2. Install Java 21 or above (ex. from here)

3. Run in a terminal with java -jar path/to/particles.jar

4. On older hardware, you may pass the --opengl argument at the end of the line above.

In browser

Particles can run on any browser that supports WebGPU, which is currently only fully implemented on Chromium based browsers.

1. Install a Chromium based browser (ex. Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc...)

2. On Linux, you may need to enable the Vulkan and unsafe WebGPU support flags

3. Open the online demo