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		4gotunameagain on March 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gravitational Collapse of Spongebob Integrating physics simulations like that is very inefficient and inaccurate, as it does not conserve momentum. I get it, it was a toy, but if you're really interested look up adaptive step symplectic integrators.

hermitcrab on March 18, 2024 [–]

I was just messing doing a bit of recreational programming, with my son. It was good enough for my purposes!

4gotunameagain on March 18, 2024 | [–]

Totally get it ! Just thought of suggesting it in case you wanted to dig in deeper :)

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