Consider adding a mass property to nodes

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
data-visualization

Research direction

Start by reading the repository’s force simulation and centering force entry points to understand how forces affect node motion; the issue does not name files or tests. The proposed behavior is to give nodes a mass that changes their response to applied forces, including the centering force, while preserving their repulsion. Done means that behavior is specified and implemented, with tests covering both force response and centering.

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Allowing nodes to have a mass property would be quite useful (so then the acceleration a produced by a force F acting on a node of mass m would be given by a = F/m, and this would also be used in calculating the centering force). For example, there might be a some nodes in your network (that may be quite important nodes for something) that you don't want to move around too much and stay quite central (but you don't want to fix completely), and giving them a large mass would achieve this. This can't be achieved by giving them a small charge since then they would no longer repel other nodes as strongly.

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