I always kept thinking I should create this application where I can get the current planetary positions in a 3D simulation where I can move around in space and look at each planet and get close to it at which point the experience of using the application gets suspiciously similar to Google earth.
I had once started doing the application to move 9 spheres (this was when Pluto was still a planet) around another giant sphere at a particular angular velocity. Then I started adjusting the size and colors of these spheres to reflect the sizes and the look of actual planets. Finally when all went straight to hell, I gave up. Recently the itch to use an application like this got... scratchy. But this time I just Googled for an application like this and found one of the sweetest 3D simulation of the universe that's out there.
Its Universe Sandbox! This app does a pretty good simulation of the current positions of planets, stars and nearby galaxies. It simulates the effects of gravity on an object in space extremely well. You can do stuff like: increase the mass of Jupiter to equal Sun and see how the planets start moving in all weird paths due to the increased gravity and you see Sun and Jupiter do the binary dance. Cool app.
Some dude has used this application to simulate the arrival of 'Nibiru' - the ridiculous star made of 'Dark Matter' that is going to 'collide' with the 'Solar System' causing the end of the 'Universe'!!! Some bull theory, but this dude has managed to simulate that using Universe Sandbox. It is quite interesting to look at. This is the YouTube link to the cool looking dumbness.
(I see the scope for a lot more posts while talking about the hype of the world ending in 2012)
I had once started doing the application to move 9 spheres (this was when Pluto was still a planet) around another giant sphere at a particular angular velocity. Then I started adjusting the size and colors of these spheres to reflect the sizes and the look of actual planets. Finally when all went straight to hell, I gave up. Recently the itch to use an application like this got... scratchy. But this time I just Googled for an application like this and found one of the sweetest 3D simulation of the universe that's out there.
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| Uranus, the dark ring matter, the tiny moons embedded in the dark ring matter and the orbits of the big 5 moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon (As shown by Universe Sandbox) |
Some dude has used this application to simulate the arrival of 'Nibiru' - the ridiculous star made of 'Dark Matter' that is going to 'collide' with the 'Solar System' causing the end of the 'Universe'!!! Some bull theory, but this dude has managed to simulate that using Universe Sandbox. It is quite interesting to look at. This is the YouTube link to the cool looking dumbness.
(I see the scope for a lot more posts while talking about the hype of the world ending in 2012)
