POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Re: Gravity Well 3 : Re: Gravity Well 3 Server Time
20 Jul 2024 07:18:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Gravity Well 3  
From: Sander
Date: 1 Jun 2001 15:53:55
Message: <MPG.1582113a1cad53ea9897b0@NEWS.POVRAY.ORG>
In article <3b17eed4$1@news.povray.org>, Bill DeWitt says...
> 
> "Greg M. Johnson" <"gregj;-()56590"@aol.c;-()om> wrote in message
> news:3b17e786@news.povray.org...
> > This is very cool.
> >
> > Is it "mere" rotations,
> 
>     'Fraid so, I was not intending to model the interactions of the planet's
> gravity, but only to display the curvature of space that they cause. I
> only -wish- I knew enough to mimic real orbits and gravity...
> 
This looks great: how did you get the exact match of the orbits?

I remember a C-program that came with all the sources necessary to 
construct a 3-body animation. It could contain the necessara formulas, 
but then again I think 3 bodies are not enough for you?
-- 
Regards,  Sander


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