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While not as impressive, I have a small set of fun pages here: https://susam.net/links.html#fun

These are tiny hobby projects I've developed in the limited spare time I get. They serve as creative outlet and keep alive the fun in computing I first discovered many decades ago while learning the Logo programming language.

I'm curious to see what others here do to keep the fun in computing alive for themselves.

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My son wanted to know why all planets move in one direction around the sun.

https://strangeloop.nl/max.html

I struggled a bit with finding the right way of controlling this, but with some patience you can set up a cloud of nicely rotating particles, and try to reverse the overall direction of the swirl by adding particles that rotate in the other direction.

Love this! Nice work.

Thanks! Full disclosure: by the time this was done, the actual question that prompted this was long forgotten. I got a "huh, that's nice." for my trouble (:

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