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Visualizes gravitational forces shaping our universe. Free
Cavendish's screensaver module beautifully visualizes the gravitational forces shaping our universe, accurately predicting and drawing the paths of celestial bodies as their masses attract each other. The screensaver generates a 3D universe with randomly distributed bodies and then uses OpenGL to display the evolution of the system due to gravity. Solar systems with multiple stable planetary orbits often form, as do unstable ones with many gravity slingshots, binary stars, and other interesting features. Regardless of the result, Cavendish is guaranteed to produce a compelling and accurate
What's New
Version 1.3:
- Snow Leopard compatible.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 (see website for 10.4/10.5 compatible version)
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 (see website for 10.4/10.5 compatible version)
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| Downloads:12,880 |
| Version Downloads:2,549 |
| Type:Utilities : Screen Savers |
| License:Free |
| Date:24 Sep 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Cavendish's screensaver module beautifully visualizes the gravitational forces shaping our universe, accurately predicting and drawing the paths of celestial bodies as their masses attract each other. The screensaver generates a 3D universe with randomly distributed bodies and then uses OpenGL to display the evolution of the system due to gravity. Solar systems with multiple stable planetary orbits often form, as do unstable ones with many gravity slingshots, binary stars, and other interesting features. Regardless of the result, Cavendish is guaranteed to produce a compelling and accurate visualization.
The screensaver is fully customizable, with support for user modification of nineteen different parameters varying from the number of bodies to be simulated all the way to a switch for drawing velocity and acceleration vectors. Furthermore, the screensaver supports loading and saving of different configuration files to allow favorite systems to be reused.
This is the screensaver module for the full-featured gravitational dynamics visualization tool, Cavendish.
The screensaver is fully customizable, with support for user modification of nineteen different parameters varying from the number of bodies to be simulated all the way to a switch for drawing velocity and acceleration vectors. Furthermore, the screensaver supports loading and saving of different configuration files to allow favorite systems to be reused.
This is the screensaver module for the full-featured gravitational dynamics visualization tool, Cavendish.
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Anonymous reviewed on 04 Nov 2004
Bugs:
Shading works properly on the spheres when watching the preview run inside the System Pref's window. But in fullscreen mode there is no shadow - they're all just bright balls. (TiBook 667MHz, 16MB ATI Radeon GC)
Suggestions:
Instead of saving and loading different configs via buttonpress (several are included), what about incorporating it all into a drop-down menu from which you can access all the configs previously made and add your own?
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Nov 2004
Download it you fools!
Anonymous reviewed on 06 Mar 2004
(Reposted as independent comment - didn't realize that replying didn't offer rating options. Apologies for duplication.)