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Aurora Current: Charged Particle Flow (2D)

2D aurora-current lab: charged particles confined to a ring by a radial spring, driven around it by a tangential drift and perturbed by a divergence-free curl-noise field, with a live speed and radius readout.

Magnetism2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion turns the 3D Aurora Current scene into a top-down instrument: a ring of charged particles is held near a target radius by a radial spring, carried around the ring by a tangential drift representing the current, and perturbed by a divergence-free curl-noise field standing in for turbulence in the field-line bundle; a live readout tracks the mean particle speed and ring radius as you adjust confinement, drift speed and turbulence.

⚙ Under the hood

2D aurora-current lab with a radial-spring ring confinement, a tangential current drift, a divergence-free curl-noise turbulence field and a live speed/radius readout.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install