Vortex is an applet I originally made on May 28, 2010. It was based off of the rotate applet I released on here 2 weeks ago. Depth was added, as well as some other tweaks.
Fun fact: There are 12,500 particles.
Click and drag to interact.
Well. Shoot. I have no experience in that type of stuff in Processing.
A note, though: Processing is basically Java. As in, it'll run any Java code. So your best bet would be to find some Java snippets involving downloading stuff.
This might help also: http://processing.org/reference/libraries/#data_protocols
Keep tinkering with code and you might come up with something neat. These formulas I use are mostly ones that I've picked up over time from experimenting and looking at others' codes and tutorials. The more you pick up, the more things you could do with them.
If you ever do need any help, please ask.