Applet is here: http://itp.nyu.edu/~cab513/icm/midterm3/.

I’m trying to create an applet that accrues a pile of shapes over time to visualize data that gets expressed along the lines of “over a given amount of time such-and-such happens.” For example, every five seconds a child dies of preventable or curable poverty-related causes, or every 30 seconds someone dies of malaria, etc. I would eventually like to have different flows of circles according to user input so that you could choose to compare accruals of different bits of data (e.g. you could see the rate of poverty-related child mortality at the same time as the rate of pounds of beef consumed in the U.S.) Right now I’m having trouble splitting up the array of balls so that they drop at a specified rate. Once that is sorted out I need to work on their behavior when they collide at the bottom of the screen.