Galaxy Formation

SUMMARY

Galaxy Formation is a multi-platform educational app depicting how dark matter particles in the universe clump together over billions of years to form things like stars, planets and galaxies. The app does this with a lite, real-time simulation of thousands of n-body particles that are attracted by gravitational forces that form galaxies when combined.

You can try out the live WebGL Browser version here:

WebGL: https://johnchoi313.github.io/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/

For better performance, you can download the native versions for each platform here:

Android: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Android.zip

Mac: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Mac.zip

Windows: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Windows.zip

Linux: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/Linux.zip

WebGL: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Other%20Platforms/WebGL.zip

Get the full Galaxy Formation PDF documentation here:

PDF: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Documentation/Galaxy-Formation-Documentation.pdf

Find more screenshots here:

Images: https://github.com/johnchoi313/Galaxy-Formation-WebGL/blob/master/Images

And check out a full video playthrough here:

Video: https://youtu.be/eDyD2gc5nng

CREDITS:

Lead Developer: John Choi.

Learn more about me here: https://www.johnchoi313.com/

Inspired by Volker Springel's Gadget Simulation Code.

Learn more about Gadget here: https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/gadget/

Contributors

Doyee Byun

Luka Jelenak

Patrick LaChance

Peter Lee

Raphael Segal

Ruihao Ye

Rupert Croft

Additional Resources

3D Black Hole Shader - Mikołaj Bystrzyński

Lite FPS Counter - OmniSAR Technologies

Lunar Mobile Console – SpaceMadness

FastMobileBloom – becomealittlegirl

Simple LUT Adjuster - Jeff Johnson

Float Music - Emily A. Sprague

Spacescape - Alex Peterson

UI Gradient – azixMcAze

Made possible with generous support from the National Science Foundation.