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Three-body Gallery

51 points by noajshu 8y ago

noajshu 8y ago
My favorite: "yarn" http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/sol.php?id=12 http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/sol.php?id=12
yorwba 8y ago
There's also http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm with many more orbits. (Although they mostly look the same to me.)
gregorymichael 8y ago
Tangentially - no scifi books have worked on my mind in the same way that the Three Body Problem trilogy. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths-Past-ebook/dp/B00IQO403K/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1527691517&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=three+body+problem&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...
- ConfusedDog 8y ago
  Second that. It's probably the best hard science fiction out there.
  - donquichotte 8y ago
    Third that. The author's upbringing in rural communist China gives these books an amazing depth.
    - midrus 8y ago
      Fourth that. Such a great book.
      - lsadam0 8y ago
        It caught my eye that you said 'book' rather than 'books'. You might not be aware Three Body is part of a trilogy? If you've not read The Dark Forest and Death's End, you are in for a real treat.
  - perfmode 8y ago
    better than Weir’s martian?
    - lsadam0 8y ago
      I don't think The Martian and Three-Body should be compared. I think it's fair to say that The Martian is more 'hard sci-fi' in that the story is more grounded in what we know to be true. Three-Body has to invent some ideas in order to finish it's story. That said, I overall enjoyed Three Body more. Even if it did push me into an existential crisis of some sort.
- zanmat0 8y ago
  Agreed, by far the best books I've ever read. And second that for the mild existential crisis.
- dimator 8y ago
  I'll be that guy. The writing was completely off for me, I don't know if it was the Chinese sensibilities that I was lacking, or something lost in translation, or what, but I couldn't understand the main characters at all. The multipage scientific exposition sections do not make this "hard scifi" (and they're whacky anyway). I never got the hype, and I never wanted to follow through with the other 2 books.
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Analemma_ 8y ago
Where did this headline come from? The page itself doesn't say that these orbits are stable. Are they actually stable?
- dang 8y ago
  We changed the title back from 'Stable Orbits of the Three Body Problem'.
- twtw 8y ago
  The info page states that they are all periodic solutions.
Scaevolus 8y ago
http://gminton.org/choreo.html http://gminton.org/choreo.html lets you doodle an orbital path and finds a stable configuration close to it!

51 points by noajshu 8y ago

My favorite: "yarn" http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/sol.php?id=12 http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/sol.php?id=12

There's also http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm with many more orbits. (Although they mostly look the same to me.)

gregorymichael 8y ago

Tangentially - no scifi books have worked on my mind in the same way that the Three Body Problem trilogy. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths-Past-ebook/dp/B00IQO403K/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1527691517&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=three+body+problem&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...

ConfusedDog 8y ago
Second that. It's probably the best hard science fiction out there.
- donquichotte 8y ago
  Third that. The author's upbringing in rural communist China gives these books an amazing depth.
  - midrus 8y ago
    Fourth that. Such a great book.
    - lsadam0 8y ago
      It caught my eye that you said 'book' rather than 'books'. You might not be aware Three Body is part of a trilogy? If you've not read The Dark Forest and Death's End, you are in for a real treat.
- perfmode 8y ago
  better than Weir’s martian?
  - lsadam0 8y ago
    I don't think The Martian and Three-Body should be compared. I think it's fair to say that The Martian is more 'hard sci-fi' in that the story is more grounded in what we know to be true. Three-Body has to invent some ideas in order to finish it's story. That said, I overall enjoyed Three Body more. Even if it did push me into an existential crisis of some sort.
zanmat0 8y ago
Agreed, by far the best books I've ever read. And second that for the mild existential crisis.
dimator 8y ago
I'll be that guy. The writing was completely off for me, I don't know if it was the Chinese sensibilities that I was lacking, or something lost in translation, or what, but I couldn't understand the main characters at all. The multipage scientific exposition sections do not make this "hard scifi" (and they're whacky anyway). I never got the hype, and I never wanted to follow through with the other 2 books.

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Analemma_ 8y ago

Where did this headline come from? The page itself doesn't say that these orbits are stable. Are they actually stable?

dang 8y ago
We changed the title back from 'Stable Orbits of the Three Body Problem'.
twtw 8y ago
The info page states that they are all periodic solutions.

Scaevolus 8y ago

http://gminton.org/choreo.html http://gminton.org/choreo.html lets you doodle an orbital path and finds a stable configuration close to it!