The Powder Toy

STKM in Orbit by Plex

Plex
Plex
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22nd Sep 2015
22nd Sep 2015
I've noticed that TPT with Radial gravity enabled simulates orbits somewhat realistically. This save demonstrates this and might even teach you some rocket science. Credit to snail for the font.
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Comments

  • admiral
    admiral     22nd Sep 2015
    see my orbital stickman challenge
  • penguindude
    penguindude     22nd Sep 2015
    There is a strange orbital oscillation with eccentric orbits. I wonder why TPT physics does that
  • Plex
    Plex     22nd Sep 2015
    Woo, FP! Thanks for the feedback, guys!
  • Plex
    Plex     22nd Sep 2015
    @sentinal-5: Oops! I'll update the save shortly, thanks for pointing that out.
  • bigexplosion
    bigexplosion     22nd Sep 2015
    I created a dustr orbit, does that count?
  • atomic2385
    atomic2385     22nd Sep 2015
    if you dont know what a strange attractor is, it is a thing made by chaotic systems. this one is the most famous(and the first one to be 'found'): www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3qAq9RNLg
  • atomic2385
    atomic2385     22nd Sep 2015
    you can make some really cool strange attractor like shapes if you view in persistent and then firing in one direction
  • Sandwichlizard
    Sandwichlizard     22nd Sep 2015
    you can make the centerpiece simply a circle of VOID(DUST) that is VOIID with a ctype of DUST. It will only suck up dust and not the stickman. this is one of my fav stickman activities.
  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     22nd Sep 2015
    this is a really nice, simple introduction to orbital mechanics :) glad someone made it. (although MEOWS is right.. you shoudn't combine different prefixes: prograde and retrograde, or posigrade and antigrade, not other combinations. while the meaning is the same, it's not technically good grammar. still! +1 anyway for bringing this to the masses!
  • explosivepowder
    explosivepowder     22nd Sep 2015
    @Hixel Same.