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jwdozer327
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So I've been playing with a little N-body code in 3D for gravitational problems and have made an OpenGL visualization to go along with it. I have been generating initial conditions (positions and velocities) using explicit formulas. I was wondering of anyone knew of any resources for getting more "interesting" initial conditions.
Right now all I generate is a uniform distribution or a spherical distribution. Is there any way to get positions and velocities for something that looks like a real galaxy or something? Does NASA have some huge CSV file for the milky way or something crazy? Google has failed me thus far. Thanks for any direction!
Right now all I generate is a uniform distribution or a spherical distribution. Is there any way to get positions and velocities for something that looks like a real galaxy or something? Does NASA have some huge CSV file for the milky way or something crazy? Google has failed me thus far. Thanks for any direction!