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Re:Show HN: Super Planet Crash by Scaevolus on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @02:03PM (#7593316)
What kind of integrator is this system using? Is it symplectic?
Re:Show HN: Super Planet Crash by stefanom on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @04:21PM (#7594040)
It is a simple leapfrog integrator (which is indeed symplectic). I found that, at least in a test implementation, higher order methods were too computationally expensive to run the simulation at a good frame rate.