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A colour particle simulator and chaos generator

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in balance exists chaos

Each pixel holds a particle, each with an unique colour.
Particles of similar colour are attracted to each other.
In their movement they push others out of the way.
Those two opposing forces can find an unstable balance like the horizons in fractals.

The video starts with a slowed down rendering of a single frame.
You see the rendering "horizon" rippling (zig-zagging) from the center to the edge.

There are 912681 particles and more than 40 million pixel movements per frame.

The original version with soundtrack, sadly uploaded with a lower bitrate resulting in visual artifacts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbvfnwMSHno

Grab one of the tarballs at https://github.com/xyzzy/Gaia2/releases or checkout the latest code:

  git clone https://github.com/xyzzy/Gaia2.git

Using SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

This project is licensed under Affero GPLv3 - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.