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Orbit - Newtonian Physics

Name:	Mike Kuklinski
Date Posted:	Jun 02, 2006
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For the past 2 days I have been working on a pet Newtonian Physics project called Orbit. If you could not already have guessed, it simulates, guess what, orbits!

It is written in C++ and OpenGL. The graphics engine is half-ripped from NEHE's tutorials since that is not the main point of it, the main point is Newtonian Physics.

You can download it here.

Some Screenshots:

The Solar System. The big brown thing is Jupiter.

A close up of Earth. The little grey thing is the Moon.

Note, this project is not complete, I will continue to work on it until I feel it has some level of completion to it.

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List:	02/10/08 - irc.maxgaming.net #garagegames 02/04/08 - StackHeap Master Server Beta Release 02/03/08 - StackHeap Master Server 12/21/07 - Engine Writing 01/17/07 - Kuiper Work .. lots of pictures. 09/13/06 - MS4? No one told me! 06/10/06 - Kuiper Optimizations, and other stuff 06/02/06 - Orbit - Newtonian Physics

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Mike Kuklinski (Jun 02, 2006 at 09:23 GMT)

Notice, due to some unfortunate text that was appended to the resources of the original upload, text that was used during debugging of code (multi-word strings for names), that included vulgarities (first things that came to my mind while I was half-asleep), a new binary was uploaded to be kiddy-safe.

That is a word to the wise - if you have a vulgar mind, double check your binaries to make sure you remove all 'unsavory' debug texts :).

--MK
Edited on Jun 02, 2006 09:29 GMT

Brian Jansen (Jun 02, 2006 at 10:41 GMT)

haha why would a young kind be interested in Newtonian Physics?

This is kinda trippy because it seems 3d or maybe I've been druged but cool. Nice Job!
Edited on Jun 02, 2006 10:44 GMT

Tim Muenstermann (Jun 02, 2006 at 10:43 GMT)

Great stuff Mike!

Maxwell Marsh (Jun 02, 2006 at 16:42 GMT)

Thats cool, is it to scale?

Mike Kuklinski (Jun 02, 2006 at 22:58 GMT)

The RAR has a new file in it --

It now traces orbits as well!

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