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🧪 Lissajous Curves with Fading Comet Trails

An animated grid of Lissajous figures where a Trail Length slider controls how much of each curve's history is kept -- set it low to turn the classic looping curves into fading comet trails, or keep it full to watch the complete harmonic pattern form.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted
lissajous-curves-exploration ↗ Open standalone
⚙ Under the hood

An animated grid of Lissajous figures where a Trail Length slider controls how much of each curve's history is kept -- set it low to turn the classic looping curves into fading comet trails, or keep it full to watch the complete harmonic pattern form.

Lissajous CurvesPeriodic Motion

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

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