Hey Zach,
First, I apologize for the confusion. I actually got the code for my example from here https://codepad.co/snippet/javascript-rounded-particle-circle. I couldn't find anywhere, other than linking the user that created (copied - which is what it looks like based on your find of the actual original site) the codepad. I also should have been more specific in my original post. I was mainly wanting to know if something like this was possible with GSAP pretty easily. I could probably brute force the code in the CodePen I linked but I wanted to see if there was a more efficient way to do it ( from what I've read, GSAP is much more efficient). Thanks, and sorry again for the lack of referencing where I pulled the example from.