Orbit Simulator

A multi-body Newtonian orbit simulator made in Rust with egui. Click here to access the web version!

Features

• Newtonian gravity simulation with as many bodies as your computer can handle
• Collisions respect conservation of momentum
• Panning by dragging with left-click or middle-click and zooming by scrolling
• Tracking moving bodies with RMB > Follow
• Built-in visual aids for Kepler's Second Law and force/motion arrows
• Saving and loading of simulations to local files
• Easy access via the web app
• Tutorial guide to using the program on first open

Compiling

The development environment can be opened with Nix:

nix develop

From there you can run a native version of the program with:

cargo run --release

...or locally host the web version of the program with:

trunk serve --release