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A powerful open-source engine for advanced celestial mechanics, orbital dynamics, and planetary motion.

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Axinite

A powerful open-source engine for advanced celestial mechanics, orbital dynamics, and planetary motion.

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Overview

Axinite is an engine for calculating celestial motion. You can use it to design your own solar systems, predict trajectories of rockets, simulate gravitational interactions and more.

Check out the docs here.

What is axtools?

axtools is a library to help abstract and simplify Axinite. With axtools, Developers can deploy Axinite powered applications with ease. You can find the docs here.

How can I use Axinite?

For developers looking to deploy Axinite-powered applications, check out the Python package.

For students, engineers, physicists, and anyone else in the field of astrophysics who want to simulate gravitational interactions, you can check out the command line interface.

Supporting Axinite

Giving Feedback

The biggest way you can help Axinite's development is by giving feedback. Reporting bugs, proposing ideas, and raising issues really help make the library better.

Contributing

Feel free to open up a pull request or an issue if there are any changes you'd like introduced to Axinite. Any help will be appreciated!

Other ways to support

  • Giving this repository a star! This really helps me to get Axinite out to other developers.
  • Reaching out! I'd love to hear about your thoughts, ideas, and issues.
  • Share the project! Help me spread the word to other students and developers.

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Development Todo List

  • Graceful load function exiting
  • Fix weird euler loading error where first positions are always the origin
  • Add context objects for backends with modifiers and actions