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		vjoel on Nov 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript particle simulator Took me a long time to notice that my cursor movements were injecting disturbances into the fluid. What physical laws govern these points, and how is the cursor perturbing them?

vjoel on Nov 20, 2013 [–]

Also, why is there a bias towards clockwise orbits in the first few seconds? Is there some asymmetry in the physics?

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