Kepler's Orrery
A gravity simulator that composes Generative music.
- News! Kepler's Orrery is now Open Source.
- The player code has been released under GPL; the worlds (think of them as the "songs") under Creative Commons (attribution, share-alike). I'm hosting the code on java.net. You can browse the source code anonymously, and download the source if you register (free) and log in.
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Watch some videos!
- See it running live in an applet!
- Some notes about the algorithm
- See it running live in an applet!
Acknowledgements:
Portions of the n-body simulator code were derived from code supplied with Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach, by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, Addison-Wesley, 2007. ISBN 0-321-49805-4
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/IntroProgramming
(See the source code for details)
Portions of the n-body simulator code were derived from code supplied with Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach, by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, Addison-Wesley, 2007. ISBN 0-321-49805-4
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/IntroProgramming
(See the source code for details)