flockarooMay 27
home grown gas giant ;-)
#simulation reacts on planet-motion
...i mean, who doesn't dream of shaking up a gas giant? ;) #planet #fluid #glsl
Show threadnot p hudsonMay 27
@flockaroo damnn
is this open source, or generally available anywhere? i'd love to show this to the stellar dynamics guys at my uni's physics dept
Show threadflockarooMay 27
@gock huh, well, i did a lot of crazy things there to make this work on a sphere, that would scientifically get me straight into hell - so better not bother them ;-P
Show threadnot p hudson

@flockaroo ha! we're physics programmers, not cs majors. if you could see half the hacks and code kludges we pull off on the daily...

but that's ok, i respect that.

maybe you could do something scientific though, if you already have this simulation up and running. when you rotated the camera to show the poles it immediately reminded me of those weird hexagon patterns we see on saturn. to my knowledge it's still an open problem why that pattern forms, so if you manage to tweak some simulation parameters and make it appear that would be really interesting, you might have some new science on your hands.

May 27 at 3:41pmWeb