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Product Description:
Cavendish is a robust and easy to use visualization tool for the N-body problem. The first program of its kind for Mac OS X, it has an intuitive interface, beautiful graphics and an accurate and fast core physics engine. Cavendish is named for Henry Cavendish (1731 - 1810) who used a torsion balance to make the first accurate measurement of the universal gravitational constant.
Cavendish simulates gravitation and accurately models stable planetary orbits, gravity slingshots, solar systems, asteroid belts, galactic collisions, or any other world you can imagine.
Features include:
- 3D simulation and visualization via OpenGL
- Accurate gravitation and collision dynamics
- Human-readable XML data files
- True support for an infinite number of bodies
- Export to tab-delimited data for later analysis
- Automatic tracking of bodies
- Complete control over simulations: over 45 different customizable parameters
- Wicked fast performance
- Easy to use system design tool
What's new in this version:
- Recompiled as universal binary for Intel compatibility.
- Recompiled screensaver as universal binary.
- Fixed registration issues.
- Fixed crashing at high update speeds.
- Reduced processor usage while idle.
- Edited manual for clarity and consistency.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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Nice!!! 
- Version: 2.0.1, 2/16/2004 09:32AM PST
JavaCorun
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- Nice!!!
Rox. - Version: 2.0.1, 2/14/2004 07:14PM PST
Scythe_NZ
Very nice work Ben, very nice indeed,
A Review - Version: 2.0.1, 2/14/2004 04:19PM PST
miley
My only gripe with it is one of purism more than anything else- Henry Cavendish is presently turning over in his grave because you can change his gravitational constant. Boo. But at least you can now experiment with universes of variable mass.
As soon as you can, try the examples in the data folder, they're very good.
For next version i think it would be cool to have a screen saver, that way i could show off 10 planets orbiting around eachother at different velocities easily :)