Three-Body Problem

Three masses pulled by gravity, a system with no analytic solution. Identical starting conditions with a minuscule perturbation produce entirely different futures. This is deterministic chaos.

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Body 1

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Body 3

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1/2/3 Presets · T Trails

C Chaos · F Step frame

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