Solar System simulator

Inspiration

I am fascinated with space science and I am proficient in Python. I wondered it would be great to combine my skills and my likings

What it does

I have created a library in Python through which we can add stars and planets and simulate their motion behavior they should have as prescribed by the gravitational force formula

How I built it

I built it using Python3 programming language, to be specific I used the Matplotlib module for rendering the 3D visualizations and created my own classes for planets and stars and a Vector library to ease out the 3D vector operations as per my convinience.

Challenges we ran into

Initially, I used the NumPy module to do the vector operations, but that was way too tedious, so instead I wrote my own Vector library where I used the concept of operator overriding to achieve convenient vector operations in the project

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was able to modularize my code and build a generic library with scope of further expansion

What we learned

I learned a lot about physics simulation and the 3D plots in Matplotlib

What's next for Solar System simulator

Add more concepts of Planetary physics inorder to make simulations more robust.

Built With

• matplotlib
• python