Unstable Star experimentation

[kuwertzel]

Would be soo cool to have live desktop backgrounds or screensavers with these simulations...

[goldenegg]

the real question is how to incorporate this into the ant wars.

[tannerh]

The slow leak reminds me of hawking radiation in black holes. Great work, I could watch this for hours.

[nikkiofthevalley]

I'm now tempted to try to make an actual star simulation (eg. making radiation pressure, + make gravity be between individual particles instead of just towards the center, although that would cause more lag)

[tareksaeed]

Wow this looks awsome, would love to see more star simulations.

[xafecx]

Some dedicated star simulations would be amazing.

Keep up with the good work :)

[awaken]

A few more ideas.
Heat: Increases Instability/Overshoots.
Fusion.Most Particles start as hydrogen.There however will be Helium, Lithium, And a few other trace elements.
A Certain Amount of Pressure is needed for Fusion of Heavier Elements.

Elements (Iron) that cannot Fuse together will have pressure resistance instead, Which will hopefully allow neutron stars in your simulations.

Pressure Resistance has a limit though, making black holes hopefully possible.

Gravity: Attraction is not limited to one spot, But to all particles which will cause particles clumping together to form a big mass that will keep fusing with other big masses

Magnetism: Um.I think this is currently too complicated to explore

[okboing]

Noice, love the way it flares every 2 seconds or so before exploding

[a.g.]

By the end, he'll have an entire simulated universe for the ants.

[jproland]

A type 1a supernova simulation would be cool. A stable cluster (white dwarf) slowly feeding off of a constant stream of particles (mass from the orbiting companion) until the physics engine breaks (core reignites).

[firstdev]

Makes me think, what if black holes were actually just bugs in the universe

[betprolol]

i like how every once in a while the star doesn't like to exist.

[superposition]

Why not make a version where every particle is attracted to every other particle (or the closest few particles to improve speed) instead of a single arbitrary point?

[bloemundude]

I wonder if all this randomness would induce any rotation in the star.

[coppertones]

weird that it produces pulses of increasing intensity before exploding

[tomsterbg]

Instead of having central gravity make it realistic so that each particle attracts other particles and forms clusters this way

[GingePlaysMinecraft]

This is actually a really fun way of visualising coronal mass ejections but spread up!

[rumblehansi]

imagine the particles coming in would contribute to the angular momentum, turning the staionary star into a rotating one ;)

[StevenIngram]

Wouldn't it be neat if some of these ejections fell into orbit instead of falling back into the star? I think the star would stabilize as it lost mass to the formation of a protoplanetary disk. :)

[messiermitchell]

POV: you're a star undergoing contraction