Density waves - Elliptical orbits?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 6:40 am
I've been really enjoying playing around with Gravity Simulator, and have a question / suggestion.
One thing I have tried to create are density waves that might form a stable "spiral galaxy" structure - I have used circles with various offsets in x and y and that sort of works to create a single spiral of slightly more densely packed objects - but ideally what is needed is nested and offset elliptical orbits.
I am wondering if it would be possible to add 'eccentricity' and 'axis angle' elements to the circles / rings, where eccentricity would stretch the circle along an axis, and axis angle would indicate the angle at which that axis lies compared to the x-axis?
In that way it would be simple to create something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_w ... iagram.svg
One thing I have tried to create are density waves that might form a stable "spiral galaxy" structure - I have used circles with various offsets in x and y and that sort of works to create a single spiral of slightly more densely packed objects - but ideally what is needed is nested and offset elliptical orbits.
I am wondering if it would be possible to add 'eccentricity' and 'axis angle' elements to the circles / rings, where eccentricity would stretch the circle along an axis, and axis angle would indicate the angle at which that axis lies compared to the x-axis?
In that way it would be simple to create something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_w ... iagram.svg