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Yakman
11-20-2010, 06:48 PM
Solar Sail application thingy
Uses newton's second law and euler's method of integration to solve.

CONTROLS
left/right - rotate sail
up/down - change sail area
q - toggle sail orbit lock (doesnt work very well)
w - teleport back to start, useful if you fuck up and end up in deep space
e - fold/unfold sail
r - pause

VECTORS
red vector - gravitational acceleration
orange vector - light pressure acceleration
blue vector - velocity

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3972/shotk.th.png (http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3972/shotk.png)