Hello. This is the first in an infrequent series of wee widgets I’ve written with Processing.

First, a particle system with fade, brightness and scaling on the Z axis. Hit ‘Continue reading’ to see the magic.

Remember you will have to wait for Java to load – this can take a few seconds.


You can draw more with the mouse, try it.

To view this content, you need to install Java from java.com

Source code: simple_particles_physics