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Remember the user's particle count (if valid) and restore it the next time the browser loads the page.

The color of particles and lines should shift gradually based on how much of the sphere lies between them and the viewer.

Currently electrons are all created with positive x and y values. Would be better to allow them to appear anywhere on the unit sphere. Prevent any two electrons from being too close together (avoid excessive forces that could wreck the simulation).

Page should have buttons to add or delete electrons one at a time.

Detect when particles have stabilized and reduce CPU usage by simulating fewer (maybe one?) step per frame instead of 10.

There is no need for jQuery in this simple project. Let's make it lean and mean!

Calculate distances between all particles, just as we do now, only sort them. For any particles not connected to any other by the shortest length, draw different (?) lines to particles with second-shortest, third-shortest, etc.

This will help recognize any patterns in the arrangement of electrons once they settle down.

The rotation could track the mouse position. Might be fun to even give it some momentum by dragging and "flinging" the ball.

The buttons and the ball counter are ugly! Plus they are not very functional on iPhone. Have to keep clicking a hundred times to add a bunch of points. It would be much better to use a slider of some kind.

Prevent stability problems by starting out with a very slow time increment. Gradually ramp up as electrons start to settle down. Will require some experimentation.

It is becoming apparent that it is a design flaw to try to hide the rotation matrix inside the Display class. I already had to expose it to Simulate.Render(), which creates redundant computation. Refactor this so that performance is better and the code is cleaner.

Write something that people can read to explain what the heck this thing is!

The simulation did not seem to stabilize when n=149. Might need to adjust time increment based on a more sophisticated formula.