Interactive three-dimensional simulations & visualizations

Visualizing the beauty in physics and mathematics

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Astrophysics


We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. — Charles Darwin


Daylight variations — sun-earth-moon model


Kepler’s law & the three-body problem


Our planets
"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company." — Samuel Johnson
Kepler's laws
Kepler's laws of planetary motion: "I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects" — Johannes Kepler.

Spiral galaxy & galactic collisions


Spiral galaxy
Realistic visualization of spiral galaxies such as our own Milky Way galaxy.
Galactic collision
The future collision between our own Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy.

Pulsar


Pulsar
"A pulsar (pulsating star, on the model of quasar) is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles." — Wikipedia
X-ray binary
"X-ray binaries are a class of binary stars that are luminous in X-rays. The X-rays are produced by matter falling from one component, called the donor (usually a relatively common main sequence star), to the other component, called the accretor, which is either a neutron star or black hole." — Wikipedia

Solar system & rings of Saturn


Solar system
Comprehensive simulation of our solar system.
Saturn rings
Rings of saturn modelled as clouds of particles.

The three-body problem


Three body problem
The well-known three-body problem, for which there exists no analytical solution, so we have to solve it numerically. Euler's version is exactly solvable though.


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