This example demonstrates the use of a particle system to simulate the motion of falling snowflakes. This program defines a snowflake class and uses an array to hold the snowflake objects.
Snowflakes: Created by Aatish Bhatia. Revised by Darren Kessner. From 2024 onwards, edited and maintained by p5.js Contributors and Processing Foundation. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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