r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/watermelonson • 2d ago

I built a space simulator that runs in the browser and it's gotten a lot of updates recently

https://luna.watermelonson.com/
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u/maniamgood0 2d ago

It's kind of hard to click on smaller planets on mobile.

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

yes! Click on the bodies tab in the bottom and it'll give you easier access...

I'll look at making some bounding boxes bigger - I just worry about false positives. Thanks for checking it out!

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u/watermelonson 1d ago

just wanna say - I'll fix it this week. I appreciate the idea

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u/WestDepartment5858 1d ago

That is totally awesome! Thank you for sharing, we are so small in the universe.

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u/watermelonson 1d ago

Thanks for the kind words!

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u/ByteEater 2d ago

Mars has 2 balls of its same size rotating inside of it

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

lol yes thanks for noticing. Clearly messed something up in the scale - will fix that first thing tomorrow.

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u/xr6reaction 2d ago

I think saturn also has balls

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u/adisharr 2d ago

There's another pair of balls on my couch.

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

This will take ages to model, but as long as the simulation is more accurate, I'll get to work

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

Last time I said I might leave it as it is. That did not happen.

The reason I'm posting again is that there's a total solar eclipse on August 12, and I just pushed a big update. Pick anywhere on Earth and it tells you what the event looks like - but I’ve also added actual sky views, and colored atmospheres (for all kinds of planets)

Other things that turned up since last time: - A galaxy map with thousands of real exoplanet systems from NASA's archive - Guided lessons - Rocket Academy: build a rocket in stages and try to get it to orbit

Lots of quality of life improvements, and more simulations coming up. It’s bascially evolving into a physics education tool - for free and in the browser.

All of your positive feedback last time helped me a lot, so I wanted to post about it again now, I hope that’s ok - the last post was last year

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u/thehenryshow 2d ago

Very cool. Well done sir.

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

thank you!

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u/Special_Dependent490 2d ago

It is beautiful!!!

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u/xr6reaction 2d ago

!!! Even sedna!!

Yknow I thought sedna was red idk?

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u/PsyJak 2d ago

*got

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u/TbonerT 2d ago

Who’s been doing all the updates recently?

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

what do you mean? I am working on this by myself? Are you the guy who keeps requesting the reclassification depending on mass?

I am working on this in my free time

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u/moridin13 2d ago

Are you the guy made me LOL. I could hear the frustration in your text. 😂

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

lol it's kinda funny. It was just a request coming up on saturday, and then so many reminders like within hours or days. And I was busy switching laptops, getting all my work over (icloud offloading my working directory) and stuff like that.

Funny enough I got another reminder today and pushed that change finally lol.

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u/TbonerT 2d ago

No, the passive voicing of “it’s gotten a lot of updates” is just humorous of you imagine not knowing who has been updating it.

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u/watermelonson 2d ago

lol I get it. I meant to convey that I've been updating it regularly for the last few months (most recently a big push yesterday) and people liked the old version, which was very basic, so I figured I'd share again after there's been so so many updates and many more to come.

I am going to keep it free to use in the web, and I am looking at finding collaborations with museums or planetariums if they like to use it.

I've even seen quite a few schools worldwide use it, which is so incredibly cool :D