Michael Bradford Williams

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This program considers the trajectories of particles in the plane with certain aspects of randomness introduced. A single particle moves at a certain speed, and its path is traced. It will "turn" left or right at a randomly chosen angle. After some random amount of time, the particle splits into two new ones. This continues until the maximum number of splits has been reached. At each split, the color of the new particles lightens a bit.

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