Plasma effect trail off appears cut off
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This is a minor issue, but to my eye, it appears that the Plasma effect trails off prematurely. Would it be possible to allow the sparks to drop further, perhaps all the way onto the dock? 😃
There is a 50 pt (100 px) boundary around the notch were effects are drawn. We could make this area larger, but it comes at a performance cost - tracking the mouse continuously as it moves through this area is Notchmeister's biggest use of system resources. It's counterintuitive, but effectively we get an "event firehose" and that's hard on the CPU because we have to filter out a lot of stuff we don't need.
I'm going to leave this open, but it's going to require a lot of refactoring to make it work as requested.
Ah, got it. Would it be that much more CPU intensive to increase the fall height by just, say, 50%? No biggie — but could be a bit more of a dramatic/elegant effect!