So @NASAWebb's due to launch 2021
Just look at its amazing orbit:
it'll orbit the Sun 1.5 million km farther than Earth (L2 point). It'll have same period as Earth thanks to Earth pulling it along, fine so far.. BUT it will also orbit a point of EMPTY space!
Credit:@NASAGoddardpic.twitter.com/NBf5fO0p7I
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It's tricky sometimes when you have to numerically integrate because the code works for each frame individually. It can overwhelm the preview buffer, but it renders fine.
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Yeah I made a model solar system in it, it's pretty rough looking code though (I would never share it and reveal my sloppiness)
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I work in an astrodynamics lab (http://asrl.ua.edu ) and we generally use Blender to visualize orbits as it has a reasonable Python API
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