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A Program for modelling a rotating galaxy based on the density wave theory.

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Spiral Galaxy Renderer

A Program for modelling a two dimensional galaxy based on the density wave theory. This archive contains the source code for an article at beltoforion.de about Simulating a Galaxy with the density wave theory.

For more Details please read the Articles.

  • https://beltoforion.de/en/spiral_galaxy_renderer [english]
  • https://beltoforion.de/de/rendern_von_spiralgalaxien [german]

A typescript implementation of this code is available here:

  • https://github.com/beltoforion/Galaxy-Renderer-Typescript

An online demo of the typescript version can be viewed here:

  • https://beltoforion.de/en/spiral_galaxy_renderer/spiral-galaxy-renderer.html

The output of the C++ version is virtually the same.

galaxy-renderer-cpp

Hers is a list of galaxies created by the algorithm: galaxy-renderer-overview