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🏖️ Sandbox Impact Lab: Ball-Drop Craters, Energy Scaling and Ejecta Rays

Drop steel, glass, wood or rubber balls into a bed of sand on Earth, Mars or the Moon: measure the crater and compare it with the energy-scaling law, watch the ejecta fly ballistically, and fire shallow shots to see butterfly-shaped ejecta.

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Drop steel, glass, wood or rubber balls into a bed of sand on Earth, Mars or the Moon: measure the crater and compare it with the energy-scaling law, watch the ejecta fly ballistically, and fire shallow shots to see butterfly-shaped ejecta.

Impact CraterCrater ScalingEjectaBallisticsGranular MatterDimensional AnalysisThree.jsBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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