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Is there any simulation online where I can just click to add planets and watch them move around each other? It's surprisingly relaxing...
by brador 14y ago
Is there any simulation online where I can just click to add planets and watch them move around each other? It's surprisingly relaxing...
- dmd 14y agohttp://www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html http://www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html
- dharma1 14y agothanks. watching that is strangely satisfying. it's like the path of the planets has been predestined, yet it still feels somehow random. kind of like life
- dokem 14y agoHere's one a made a while back. http://horuff.me/static/content/grav/ http://horuff.me/static/content/grav/
- srl 14y agoThat's /really/ fun, thanks! It doesn't work, though. On firefox 19.0.2 (archlinux), it seems to detect clicks shifted a good bit to the right (maybe 100 pixels?), and a little bit down. It looks like it's using whole-screen coordinates without correcting for the position of the canvas. It would also be cool if you could give some quantitative data below - the total amount of kinetic/potential energy would be fun to watch, for instance. (And graph it.) You also seem to be using an inverse-square law, which is "incorrect" in a 2D universe, but I suppose it makes it seem more natural.
- lostlogin 14y agoDon't watch butterfly one for relaxation. Any life that survived the weird gravity effects in that system would also need nerves of steel.