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Rotating Habitat Walking Gravity

Interactive rotating space-habitat simulator: tune ring radius and spin rate, then walk prograde or retrograde along the rim and watch Coriolis coupling raise or lower your apparent weight in real time, against a radius/RPM comfort envelope.

Space & Astronomy3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted
space-gravity ↗ Open standalone

A spinning ring habitat substitutes centripetal acceleration for gravity — but that substitute gravity isn't fixed the moment you start moving. This simulator lets you design the ring (radius and spin rate) and then walk along its rim, showing in real time how prograde or retrograde walking raises or lowers your apparent weight through Coriolis coupling with the rotating frame, how a smaller radius produces a steeper head-to-foot gravity gradient, and where your design sits on the classic radius-vs-spin-rate human-comfort envelope used in space-habitat engineering.

⚙ Under the hood

Design a rotating space habitat's radius and spin rate, then walk prograde or retrograde along the rim and watch Coriolis coupling raise or lower your apparent weight in real time against a radius/RPM comfort envelope.

spaceartificial-gravitycoriolisrotationhabitatphysics

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

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