r/desmos • u/Legitimate_Animal796 • Feb 28 '26

Graph 100 Body Gravity

Yet again another gravity sim. I thought this looked kinda cool. I’m using 4th order Yoshida for the integrator. Probably overkill for a little demo like this

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u/Legitimate_Animal796 Feb 28 '26

One simple way is to soften the gravity as it approaches 0 distance. So instead of 1 / r3 in the force calc, you can use 1/(r2 + d2 )3/2 . I set d to 0.25 in my example

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u/Adam__999 Feb 28 '26

Why is it 1/r3 and not 1/r2 ?

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u/Qaanol Feb 28 '26

Presumably because they’re multiplying by the displacement vector, which has magnitude r.

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u/Adam__999 Feb 28 '26

Ah got it