this example tweaks the min_dist in the fragment shader and picks a shorter tweenTime to produce a sparse field of ephemeral circles that glow briefly before fading
an iteration on the block regl-animate-circles which in turn forks the block ReGL circle animation example from @ajdant
commit history and related experiments here
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