3 Body problem Solution Visualized (2D, 3D maybe coming later)

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Research Paper:

By just playing around with Planetary systems that have more than 2 bodies (they can be utterly Complex and it is almost impossible to find a stable Constellation), you can easily see why such Solutions are so stunning. Being surprisingly simple as merely taking the form an Eight, makes this one stand out a lot for me.

Keeping this one 2D for now, 3D sometime later.

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Good job, thanks for sharing! How did you get the initial values for positions and velocities if you don’t mind?

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Whoops forgot to refer to the paper

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Thanks. The Wikipedia article has had this animation forever, but I haven’t noticed that they also specify the initial conditions and a reference to this same paper. I built an “orbital playground” in Processing some time ago and was trying to guess values which would do something like the figure eight thing.

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Thanks so much for shaing this, @B0tOx!

Consider making your git repo a valid sketch by moving the pde files into a correctly named subdirectory. The sketch folder and the entrypoint PDE names must match exactly.

3-Body-problem-Solution-Visualized / Gravity1 / Gravity1.pde
3-Body-problem-Solution-Visualized / Gravity1 / Planet.pde

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Thanks for the advice, never have used Github before

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