Conference hydra::amiga_v1

2241.0. "Celestial Mechanics Simulator" by WJG::GUINEAU () Tue Feb 14 1989 11:03

At last! Remember the note awhile back on Orbital Mechanics?

Well, I decided this would be a good program to learn Amiga programming with.

		WJG::AMIGA:CM.ARC

Is a program I've written to let you simulate celestial mechanics in general.

Here is a small exerpt from CM.DOC:

                            What is it?
                            -----------

CM is a Celestial Mechanics simulation tool. It allows you to
construct a layout of Masses (called Bodys) and specify various
parameters concerning both the bodys and the simulation. All input
is accomplished through a fully intuitionized interface. CM then
proceeds to animate the bodys according to the laws of gravational
attraction ( F = Gm1m2/r^2 ).  Setups may be saved to disk to allow
you later re-inact interesting scenarios.


The arc contains the executable (Lattice 5.02), source code, documentation
and a few example saved setups.


John

    Thanks John, it is a very interesting program.  Fun to play with
    and a good example of using menus, gadgets, etc.
    
    Nice Work!
    
    Steve

    
    Great job, John.  I uploaded the ARC to PLINK last night, so you're
    officially famous now.
    
    If anyone even remotely interested in this stuff hasn't tried this,
    I urge you to.  It's loads of fun watching some of the canned
    scenarios, and you can easily build your own solar system and set
    it into motion.
    
    It's also a great Amiga multitasking demo.  The program seems to
    run almost as fast even if you run it twice.
    
    Ed.
    

Thanks Guys!  Thanks for uploading to Plink, Ed. 

BTW - If anyone creates some setups, upload em!

John