Particle Attractor

A customizable live wallpaper of swirling particle figurines. Select a particle color, background color, figure size and speed, and the number of particles and set your new wallpaper.

The figures are a demonstration of an attractor - a mathematical term for a set of states toward which a system evolves, invariant of the starting conditions. In other words, the figures can be generated with any number of particles and they will have the same general shape. Attractors are a topic studied studied in differential equations and have many practical uses.