🪐 Planet Formation in a Protoplanetary Disk, 2D
Interactive top-down N-body model of planets growing from a disk of planetesimals around a young star: mutual gravity, gas drag, collisions that merge bodies, a frost line where ice adds solid mass, and runaway gas accretion onto massive cores, with live mass-versus-orbit and growth plots.
⚙ Under the hood
Interactive top-down N-body model of planets growing from a disk of planetesimals around a young star: mutual gravity, gas drag, collisions that merge bodies, a frost line where ice adds solid mass, and runaway gas accretion onto massive cores, with live mass-versus-orbit and growth plots.
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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install