
Version 1.2: Download
(32/64-bit Intel for Snow Leopard)
Version 1.1: Download (Pre-10.6 PPC version)
Version 1.1: Download (Pre-10.6 PPC version)
The point / what this screen saver is doing:
Simple systems, with simple rules, can develop interesting phenomena. You can learn a lot about a system of equations by watching what macroscopic effects accrue when you let the system evolve.
The rules of this system are simple: Objects have a position, momentum and charge.
They interact by an electric-like force between them: (The ~ sign means "proportional to")

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This was derived from my very first Cocoa program, which was just a bouncing ball program.
I still get emails from people asking for it to be kept up, so just recently I created a Snow Leopard-compatible version.
Thanks for all the nice comments and emails!
Charged Spheres is freeware. Use it, redistribute it, pass it around, enjoy it.
-Jeff