3-Body

John F. Lindner

Interactively explore chaos in the restricted 3-body problem, an infinitesimal mass moving in the gravity of two finite masses. Includes a virtual trackball with spin and a full-screen mode.

A Mac OS X app written in Objective-C++ using the Cocoa and OpenGL APIs and compiled with Xcode 2.4 as a universal (Power PC & Intel) binary in December 2006.

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