I added particles contrails to the bubble universe. It's not my original idea; @larsbrinkhoff had them in his Javascript implementation.
This should be a better video than usual. I ditched pyAV and saved a PNG file for each frame. EDIT: Nope. My mastodon instance reencoded it.
Coming "soon": I'm thinking about blurring the contrails, and I've also got some new color schemes in the wings.
🧵 16/N
#BubbleUniverse
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
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