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It's archaic #x11 application time!
#xgas, written in 1991 by Larry Medwin (at the MIT), was a program originally distributed with X11, which allowed one to animate and simulate an idea gas, and how those molecules moved.
It was a really good demonstration of how mathematical models could represent a visual graphic, at a time when there was no (by today's standards) trivial alternative.
xgas(1) is still available on the *BSDs, but has seemingly long since left the Linux repos for most distros.
A shame, really.
This was a great era for application development before "running everything in a web browser" ruined the whole experience.
This was a program using libXt (X intrinsic library) -- one up from pure XLib. #x11cp