Day 05 - Drawing with gravity
By reflecting and looking back on all the projects I’ve done in the past few days, I really enjoyed the idea of a drawing machine, but this time, letting the machine do all the work instead of drawing yourself.
The best/simplest way to draw in 3D space is to leave behind some sort of path. So the question now was, what objects will leave the path and why/how do they move? I then remembered that some students created clocks with planets and a solar system. If I now take this concept into 3D space and let the planets move according to gravitational forces, I could let physics draw.
So I created a stationary big planet in the center of the scene. Now, I spawn in some random sized planets at random positions around that stationary planet. Then I just “simulate” the paths of the planets according to the gravitational interactions between all planets and draw out the paths as lines.
Gravity
Examples
Here are some quick examples on what can be done:
