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babakm
post Jun 25 2007, 09:18 PM
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Found this on Digg today and promptly wasted an hour playing around: smile.gif

http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/planet/

Among other atrocities, I rammed a few large planets into each other to see how the debris fields would interact.
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post Jun 26 2007, 04:22 AM
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Just try adding more stars... you get some really interesting orbits when you have three or more gravity sources in the mix.

I placed three stars in a rough triangle, and found that I couldn't get a trajectory on any object that didn't impact one of the stars after only a few orbits. The planets tended to shoot up from one of the stars and then head in on a death-dive into one of the other ones.

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- babakm   Fun little Java Game   Jun 25 2007, 09:18 PM
- - nprev   How the heck do you start it? Can't find a lin...   Jun 26 2007, 03:19 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   Drag and click your mouse on the "space...   Jun 26 2007, 03:35 AM
- - CosmicRocker   It's diabolically addictive...almost hypnotic....   Jun 26 2007, 04:20 AM
- - dvandorn   Just try adding more stars... you get some really ...   Jun 26 2007, 04:22 AM
- - hendric   Set the speed to Zero, and then select the Random ...   Jun 26 2007, 07:07 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   I think what's educational about this is the e...   Jun 26 2007, 07:32 PM
- - volcanopele   This is really neat. Educational yet very easy to...   Jun 26 2007, 09:39 PM

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