C++ gravitation Projects

Principia

38 729 9.9 C++

𝑛-Body and Extended Body Gravitation for Kerbal Space Program

Project mention: A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-02

Principia is extremely impressive, they document all their math here: https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/tree/master/doc...
One interesting detail is that the source code makes extensive use of non-ASCII identifiers, for mathematical symbols and for the names of mathematicians. One of the two primary contributors is also an active contributor to Unicode
SolarSystem

7 55 6.2 C++

A solar system simulator with Verlet, using OpenGL for displaying.

Project mention: 4 hours of my .obj parser so far 😭 | /r/opengl | 2023-06-12

I also ported it in an opengl project: https://github.com/aromanro/SolarSystem
InfluxDB

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-02.