From October to November 2025, I worked on a project with one other person that takes in various initial states of the N-Body problem and uses an initial value problem solver created from scratch as well as the win32 API library to return a visual simulation.
I created the UI and visual aspect and pair programmed on the algorithm, additionally tweaking it throughout my UI and user input process to do things like take in a relative speed. The simulation is as realistic as possible, and takes in real-world accurate values for mass, velocity, and distances and uses an accurate gravitational constant. This means that simulations like the real behavior of earth and the moon (assuming a closed system) are possible.
The main limitation of this project is the speed that the output runs at, as I used built-in GDIplus graphics which use the CPU, not GPU to display frames. Note that the GIFs below are sped up, with both being at around 2x speed. github
