Solar System

Table of Contents

• Solar System
  • Table of Contents
  • Description
    • Display
      • Examples
    • Folder structure
    • Programming language(s)
  • Installation
  • Usage
    • Invocation
    • Operation
  • Contributions

Description

This program generates a random solar-system animation.
Start date: 2019-09-16
Current version: 0.1.0

Display

Examples

Folder structure

Tree with Root Having Local Path	Generation Method	Description
https://github.com/anderjef/Solar_System	auto-generated by Processing
.github/		holds GitHub-specific documents

Programming language(s)

• Processing (Java)
  • Solar_System.pde—main program entrance sets up canvas and executes animation steps
  • Planet.pde—defines Planet class
  • Star.pde—defines Star class

Installation

• Download ZIP. Extract to a folder named Solar_System.
• Download and install Processing 4.0 beta 1 or compatible. Please understand that Processing may have bugs of its own.
• Open any of the Processing Source Code files with the Processing IDE (PDE).
• Install the PeasyCam library (within the Processing environment).

Usage

Invocation

• See Installation.
• Run the code from within the Processing IDE or export the application first (exporting requires copying starTexture.jpg into the executable's folder).

Operation

Click and drag the display to rotate the camera. Scroll to zoom. Press the spacebar to toggle whether the black, space background is redrawn each frame.

Contributions

• Jeffrey Andersen—developer
• YouTube The Coding Train Video 1, YouTube The Coding Train Video 2, and YouTube The Coding Train Video 3—inspiration

For copyright, license, and warranty, see LICENSE.md.