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From: Marvin Taylor
Subject: Simulated orbits.
Date: 17 Mar 2004 12:40:02
Message: <40588d72$1@news.povray.org>
See "Crazy ovals" discussion in povray.binaries.animations

Note that the time scale for the simulated ellipse was determined 
empirically.  If you change the initial velocity or


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From: Marvin Taylor
Subject: Re: Simulated orbits.
Date: 22 Mar 2004 18:29:09
Message: <405f76c5$1@news.povray.org>
Marvin Taylor wrote:
> Marvin Taylor wrote:
> 
>> See "Crazy ovals" discussion in povray.binaries.animations
> 
> 
> Okay, last evening I managed to get a couple of simple macros together 
> that work well to remove the cumulative errors.  Since the equation of 
> the orbital angle (as a function of time) does not have a 
> straightforward solution, it is solved in an iterative (convergent) manner.
> 
> The macro allows specifying a MAXERR (measured as the correction on the 
> last iteration since the actual solution isn't know and it can't 
> determine *real* error).
> 
> I'd be curious if anyone finds this useful, if you do, please drop me a 
> line (just remove ".nospam").
> 
> Also see p.b.animation for an animation using an earlier version of this 
> scene (just a sun/earth).
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well I feel stupid; I somehow posted incompatible/broken scene files 
previously (I canceled that post).  Attached are the working versions, 
both dated today marked "VERSION 1.1".

D'oh


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