Stardust Studio Beta
A new Gravitational Physics Sandbox for Mac & iPad
App Layers:
Show or hide each independently, adjustable transparency
Particle Cloud Layer
-Rich tools for setting start conditions- relative motion,
size, starting shape, rings
-“heat map” mode - particle color encodes velocity
-displays escape velocity
-shows shock waves & other emergent phenomena
Grav Layer
-Individual gravity objects: Building blocks -drag them
to place, set mass, color, name
-Live display of velocity / acceleration vectors
-Set velocity by dragging a vector
-Camera follow
-Easily assign orbits
Trails Layer
-visualize particle & Grav motion by tracing their path
-select particles to trail - fastest, slowest, & more.
Telemetry Layer
-shows scale, coordinates, object vectors.
-measure distances, angles
The Scenario Library:
-Models of Solar System, Galilean moons, Gravity
slingshot maneuvers, 3- body solutions, Ring Systems,
Alpha Centauri system, and more
App Environment
-infinite zoom up / down
-vary timescale / speed
-velocity histogram (Mac)
-multiple gravitation models
-Real Mac / iOS Native, Built in SwiftUI
Performance:
-Animates 2 - 4 million particles/ sec:
50k particles @ 50 frames/sec
80k particles @ 30 fps, etc.
-even on mobile devices.
-No approximation. Complete gravitational calculation
on every particle every frame, accuracy << 1%
-Fully interactive - add or change objects as it runs, see
live effects
System Requirements:
macOS 14+ / iOS 17+
Apple silicon Mac or iPad (M1 or later)
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