An N-body orbit simulator, optimised with the Barnes-Hut treecode algorithm.
A spiral galaxy rendered with 100k particles at 10fps on a laptop. notice the bar in the middle, similar to the milky way.
The GUI
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3 smaller (10k) galaxies colliding
an elliptical galaxy generated from the result of the previous galaxy merge
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100k particles spread across 10^8 metres zoom-out
those 100k particles eventually cluster and form something similar to the cosmic web
QuadTree visualisation with 10k asteroid ring (no central planet)
- capable of loading up to and over 100k particles without a GPU
- fairly accurate (can create stable orbits)
- capable of creating spirals (almost) and barred galaxies
- particles are rendered as pixel values instead of polygons for efficiency
- multithreading support for updating forces
- A very efficient implementation of the barnes-hut treecode algorithm
- the tree is generated with iteratively (recursion is slower and more memory intensive)
- the tree is stored linearly in an array (faster access, less pointer access)
- the tree nodes only save one pointer and 2-3 doubles for better performance