Amazing and Frustrating – Pulsar : Interactive Particle System Review

The application is capable of generating a mind boggling amount of moving images, but the slider controls are difficult to use and the speed of the particles is always very fast - so fast and flickery that I found it difficult to use for more then a few minutes at a time. These are the changes I would like: Add a speed control so I can slow my images down. The flickering is hard on the eyes. Rethink the sliders. I personaly hate them. Sometimes some of them won't move. Sometimes you can't see them, depending on what is going on in the background. The Type and color related sliders are way to sensitive and frustrating to use. I personally would rather just click on increment and decrement controles then mess with the sliders that often won't budge. Add some help. I had no idea it supported multi touch until I read in the reviews. Then I tried it and got particles with the swirly floating effect I had no idea this application could produce. I saved the settings and now use it as a basis for other creations. It would be nice to have some separate permenent settings that demonstrate some wide ranges rather then the very fast exploding things that now come as user changeable presets. Beyond that it would be great to be able to set the controls independently for each type and to be able to have just one type. Of course more types at once would be fun too.
Review by DDReviews on Pulsar : Interactive Particle System.