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  • Very cool visuals and site! Could I make a suggestion: You show the masses (1,1,1), but not the starting positions, which alter the course of events too.
    by inatreecrown2
  • Quick, someone tell the Trisolarans!
    by jrflo
  • Hi all, I just added a new feature to the site. You can now contribute compute via your browser to help find novel orbits. If you find a linearly stable orbit, you get to name it!

    https://www.threebodyorbits.com/hunt

    Also thank you so much for all the positive feedback, I truly appreciate it. If you have any additional suggestions please let me know

    by threebodyorbits
  • It’s my understanding that most 3-body orbits are unstable; minor random perturbations will set them adrift.

    Are there any 3-body orbits with a natural resonance that maintains the shape of the orbits?

    If so, how large of a disturbance can the most-stable 3-body orbit withstand?

    by cobbzilla
  • I guess I misunderstood or mis-scoped the problem. Does the 3-body problem state 'the general case' has no solution, but that does not preclude some configurations from having a solution?
    by deskamess
  • I took graduate orbital mechanics from Roger Broucke. He was one of my best professors. Not only did I learn from him what orbital elements were, but he also taught me the Runge-Kutta numerical integration method.

    I didn't learn until years later that he had discovered several of the periodic solutions to the three-body problems. You'll see his name on this page.

    by dreamcompiler
  • It's well organized, the animations are smooth, and it looks beautiful... I'm not sure what to do with the information, but it's mesmerizing and fascinating. Great find!
    by mr_mitm
  • I have something similar at https://gravitoy.xyz

    With it I have discovered up to 11-dimensional choreographies, see https://lycium.github.io/hyperchoreography/ and code at https://github.com/lycium/hyperchoreography/

    Exposition video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sIfff10hYZA

    Example rendered output from Gravitoy (not of a choreography though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BwCoiwsGk

    Looks like I need to update my catalogue to take into account the many different 2D choreographies from the references on this site!

    by pixelpoet

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