Rotation

I was thinking to use a Bomber or a Bomber+ to make sticks that start from a center.

I was wondering....... If the V Chaos is 0, why do the sticks don't begin from the center?

Here is the file.

test rot.ffxml

Ok, confused me for a moment. First, set Density = 1. Then, after some thought, I realized that the gradient going into the rotation is a "global" map, not per particle. So each "line" is rotated according to the global map at the center of each row (4 in this case) within the rotation map. Then increasing density then creates additional line offset by the internal algorithm. Does this make sense?

UPDATE: An additional problem is the 0..1 space for the bomber particle. When rotating it, there is no way to get the sticks through the center. I would use Loop to do this like so... (FF7 and above)

test line rotation.ffxml

When you increase bombers Density it add points between existing, so if Density = 1, you've one particle, Density = 2 you've 5 particles , 1 at center + 4 to between center and corners.
You can limit opacity radius, and get rounded lines.

Adding Bevel to ellipse can add sphere-like look

if you need to not cross center you can use Center X / Y and some math to get least distance to center, to hide
https://imgur.com/a/wbdNW7w

filter for experiments

Lines from center.ffxml

example

Interesting results. Thanks mitaywalle. You gave me some new idea for a filter.