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Orbit - Newtonian Physics

by Mike Kuklinski · 06/02/2006 (1:07 am) · 5 comments

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:

www.kuattech.com/Orbit_shot1.pngThe Solar System. The big brown thing is Jupiter.
www.kuattech.com/Orbit_shot2.pngA 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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Torque Owner Mike Kuklinski
#1
06/02/2006 (2:23 am)
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

Torque Owner Brian Jansen
#2
06/02/2006 (3:41 am)
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!

Torque 3D Owner Tim Muenstermann
#3
06/02/2006 (3:43 am)
Great stuff Mike!

Torque 3D Owner Maxwell Davis-Marsh
#4
06/02/2006 (9:42 am)
Thats cool, is it to scale?

Torque Owner Mike Kuklinski
#5
06/02/2006 (3:58 pm)
The RAR has a new file in it --

It now traces orbits as well!

www.kuattech.com/orbit.png