Figure 3

State diagrams. Variation of steady-state with motor density and speed for (a) P/P₀ = 0.01 and (b) P/P₀ = 0.024. Markers denote actual states determined as described in the text and the boundaries are equidistant between pairs of data points. The vortex region in (b) is a transient configuration that is explained in section 3.2 and is delineated as those states with a vorticity $\mathcal{V}$ exceeding 0.7. Since it eventually contracts to a semi-aster, the two distinct semi-aster regions in (b) become contiguous in steady-state.