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A college student pursuing a physics degree is seeking ideas for a website dedicated to computational physics simulations. Currently, the site features two simulations: one for the n-body problem and another for a Bose-Einstein Condensate, which are more suited for research than general public interest. The student is looking for suggestions on how to utilize the website effectively, given the investment in hosting and a domain name. Suggestions from the community include using VPython to create interactive 3D graphics from the simulations and considering a personal academic blog to share thoughts and developments in physics. The student is open to these ideas and plans to enhance the simulations to make them more engaging.
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I'm a college student pursuing a degree in physics, with an interest in computational physics. I got a website where I figured I'd make simulations and publish them so that those with an interest in physics could play around with them and learn a bit.

Unfortunately, my simulations aren't quite as exciting as I expected. I've made two simulations -- one simulating the n-body problem, and one simulating a Bose-Einstein Condensate. They're useful for my research, but the general public wouldn't be interested in seeing a big text file full of coordinates...

Now, I'm stuck with a website which I'm not currently using. Since I've already paid for hosting, domain name, etc. I'm trying to think of ideas of what to put on my website -- but I'm not sure what.

Does anyone have any ideas what I can do with my website? Have you ever said to yourself, "I wish there was a physics-related website about _____?"

Any ideas are welcome! Thanks :smile:.
 
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Use http://www.vpython.org to turn those coordinates into interactive 3D graphics.
Check out the http://www.vpython.org/contributed.html page :wink:
 
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You could make it a personal academic/physics blog until you finally decide what to do with it. Use it to think out loud.
 
Thanks everyone for the ideas :). I like the blogging idea... in the meantime, I'll try to make my simulations more "interesting".
 
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