Calculation is in the frame where the CM of the white galaxy is at rest •Ignored the pairwise interactions between the orbiting bodies •The initial "flailing out" of the blue galactic arms is because i accidentally (?) gave the particles too much initial angular momentum
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Source code for galactic collision simulation: https://github.com/InertialObservr/twitter_gifs/blob/master/galaxy_collision.nb … If you find it useful or want to support me in general, here's my Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/inertialobserver …
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2D or 3D? (Not easy to see from the video)
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since you can't tell, let's say 3D
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Is the code open source?
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probably yea .. just need to clean it up
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Where can someone start to learn this?
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it's just newtons law of gravitation :)
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That's fantastic. Is the code available on your GitHub?
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thanks! not yet:) i'll post it once i clean it up
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