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PlanetWerks V2.4 2008/05/30 15:37:30

An interactive, educational and accurate Solar System simulation

A planetarium on your Desktop!

PlanetWerks is a three-dimensional widget-sized tour through our solar system. A sophisticated control system brings you amazing views and fun facts! Movement in PlanetWerks 2 incorporates accurate 2-body motion; so objects orbit the sun the same way they do in the actual solar system!

Also included, switch to a linear scale model to see just how vast the solar system really is. Four levels of precision rotation and zoom control to help get those great views! Then click planets and satellites for fun facts and statistics!

2.3 Changelog:

  • Added dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake


2.2 Changelog:
  • Added orbital path trails; toggle with [T]
  • Corrected an orientation calculation error
  • Fixed a bug affecting retrograde orbits under linear speed
  • Many performance and memory tweaks
  • Added [Backspace] to mimic [Delete] for Macbook keyboards
  • Added [Shift]+[Delete] to mimic [Insert] for Mac keyboards
  • Transparency fixes for *NIX desktops


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This is powerfull!!
wonders if it could develop into something really serious like celestia.

発言者 chesss, # 2007/02/21 22:32:11

Totally Cool! Keep it up man!

発言者 salem407i, # 2007/01/23 12:23:52

@merrickal:
Pluto is still in this simulation, but it is still the same size as before. IOW, very very small :smile:

It is also on a 17 degree incline wrt the other planets as it is in the actual solar system. Make sure you're looking all around outside the orbit of Neptune and you'll find it eventually :smile:

You may find it easier to halt the motion of the planets (C) and use the Q, W, A, S, Z, X, J and K keys to move around the system manually.

I thought about putting in a mechanism to move the planets automatically to focus in on each of them, but a) it would be a lot of work, and b) I think it's more fun to find them yourself :smile:

発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2007/01/16 4:43:59

Wow! Really cool, love the facts popping up.. but hey does it actually show pluto anymore or is my screen size too small for it?

発言者 merrickal, # 2007/01/13 15:22:58

@Erestor:
There is already a Russian version which you can find here: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/5683

I am dependent on others for translations as my first language is English :| If you know of anyone who would be interested...

At the end of every factbox chain there is a link to Wikipedia, I don't think there is enough room to put a link on each one.

Anti-clockwise? :eek: That depends on which way you think is up! :D But PlanetWerks is a fully rotatable simulation, so you can also hold down Z or X until the planets are orbitting in the direction you prefer :wink:

Thanks for your comment!

発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2007/01/12 13:39:06

Nice! Space is one of my fields of interest, so this widget is among my favourites. Please make it multi-linqual. Provide a link for further reading in every factbox. Don't the planets orbit anti-clockwise around the sun?

発言者 Erestor, # 2007/01/11 20:56:42



You should get an academy award, this should be published for schools!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

発言者 warpkasper, # 2006/12/22 7:40:36

What about adding Planet X? It's supposed to be a red planet on a very long orbit that the Sumerians saw in ancient Mesopotamia.

発言者 darklord48, # 2006/12/01 20:01:06

Amazing..simply amazing. Great widget.

発言者 Dragn, # 2006/10/30 1:52:27

It's great! Very nice and useful widget!
I've just translated it into Russian, so may I publish this translated version here? All copyrights are saved and license is not changed.

発言者 ry75, # 2006/10/28 22:05:26

Shame that - would have been über-cool :D

発言者 PaulOnPC, # 2006/09/23 16:34:29

Many, many thanks for all the comments everyone!

@PaulOnPC:
I probably could, but it would almost certainly slow the animation of the widget itself to a crawl :smile:

発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2006/09/20 15:55:56

Beautiful widget - absolutely brilliant !!

Request: Could you make the sun have animated solar flares ??

My hat goes off to you matey :D !!

発言者 PaulOnPC, # 2006/09/17 6:35:18

absu-bloody-lutely-brilliant !

:smile:

Grretings from *digitaldouchebag*

発言者 digitaldouchebag, # 2006/09/15 13:23:00

@chrisgl:
The only thing I changed was the text in the factboxes which previously referred to Pluto as a planet. Pluto is still in this simulation :smile: I may add Ceres in an upcoming version, but probably not "Xena" unless I make significant changes to the orbiting equations. Right now there is no accounting for eccentricity and "Xena" has a highly elliptical orbit.

@Nishant Sawant:
No worries! :smile:

発言者 GreyWyvern, # 2006/09/07 20:36:26

Keep pluto in it

発言者 Nishant Sawant, # 2006/09/07 15:45:06

Ooo adjust my favourite planet, would you. Grrrr
<grin>

I gather it's not set in stone yet - Planet Wars!
What about a config check box to allow us to follow the little planet's fortunes?


chris :-)

発言者 chrisgl, # 2006/09/02 10:40:43

Just beautiful , these little jewels! I'm happy to be a part of this solar system!
Thanks

発言者 praveershukla, # 2006/09/01 15:08:39

The most important reason ever to beg my boss for buying me a more contemporary (i.e. faster) machine. :-)

Great.

発言者 seeg, # 2006/08/18 23:54:02

Brillant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

発言者 lgethins, # 2006/08/14 9:24:48

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