ricketyclick » universesandbox.com http://ricketyclick.com/blog Don't Expect Me to be Nice. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:05:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Newton Would Have Killed For This http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/01/newton-would-have-killed-for-this/ http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/01/newton-would-have-killed-for-this/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:16:18 +0000 Dave http://ricketyclick.com/blog/?p=955 Lovely graphic simulator of the effects of gravity on the universe, from simple two-body problems to colliding galaxies.
The Universe Sandbox.

[Click to enlarge. More screenshots here.]

Less than a decade ago, this was the province of room-sized supercomputers. Now available on your desktop.

I do so dearly love living in the future, although unfortunately, I haven’t been able to try this out for myself since it’s Windows-only. I have got to get around to setting up Wine or dual-boot.

Link from frequent commenter Chanda via email.

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