Solar System — N-body gravitation with procedural GPU shaders

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Bodies are drawn far larger than life. Orbits and physics are always true to scale.

Planet size Sun size Moon orbits

Activity Sunspots Flares Corona

Exposure Bloom Atmospheres Milky Way

Velocity-Verlet is symplectic, so the energy error oscillates within a bound instead of accumulating.

compiling shaders…