Physics Triumphs Once Again

Thank you, Abel, for finding something more fun to do on a Sunday afternoon than a first-order logic problem set. The traer particle system physics engine, developed by our friends at Princeton, is a package for the Processing programming language that abstracts much of the gross minutiae of the force-modeling process behind a clever object oriented API.

I extended the concept behind one of the example applets to include a *few* more particles. It's sort of fun to play with:





Here's the source. Also, the default picture I used when writing the thing. In accord with the lore of one physics instructor Tom Haff, we find it appropriate to remark, "PTOA!"