Good Friday

I thought I would go home early today, but Bad Things intervened and I got left holding the bag. I hope I executed my charge properly. Sigh.
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Monday, April 14, 2003

Galaxy Dynamics Computer Simulation Posted by: Anonymouse at 18:50

The paper over at OSNews considers a mathematical model of the behavior of an assembly of N stars. The 'Kepler' Windows demo application based of this model enables to perform real-time simulation of star clusters dynamics for N~=2500. The paper also estimates the efficiency of the IPP application and provides an example of C-code with the IPP functions calls. Computer-simulated images of the spiral galaxy forming process, as well as the real galaxies photos, are presented.

Emphases mine. Heh. Considering getting a cluster of 2500 stars and the distances between them and the motions relative to each other in keeping it in a 1152x768 pixel screen, I could probably do a real-time simulation of 2500 stars by hand. What I want to do is get a faster-than-life simulation, say, a million years a second or so? :.)
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