Risto A. PajuAnother blow-up view of the Apollonian spheres, now dropping on a concave surface to gather all the jetsam together. This is what I had in mind when writing the first drop demo, and the model just needed a bit of refinement for the differently sized balls: properly scaled masses and elastic factors, as well as proper handling of these quantities in each pair collision.
As a recovering science teacher, it's fun to see such physics in action: a simple, linear elastic force is all it takes to keep each body in its place. Well, at least approximately; I've included a basic drag term to help things settle, but it seems it would take a while, as the tiniest balls are easily thrown around by the larger masses.
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