#Devlog 001 — The Beginning of Nyx (I call the light sails Nyx, because why not)

Started building the computational simulator for my project on passive beam-riding stability of interstellar lightsails.

What I implemented:
-A Gaussian laser beam model to simulate how beam intensity changes from the center outward.
-A rectangular lightsail simulator divided into tiny surface patches.
-Calculations for net force and net torque acting on the sail.
-Support for changing the sail’s position relative to the beam.
-Support for x-axis and y-axis tilts, allowing the sail to change orientation.
-Validation tests showing that centered sails produce near-zero torque and that results converge with increasing resolution.
-The beginnings of a 3D geometry engine, including a hemispherical lightsail generator using spherical coordinates.
-3D visualization of the hemispherical sail to verify that the geometry was generated correctly.

(Am currently working on the the force and torque calculation for the spherical sails)

(The test cases are for tilted says, the first one is not tilted at all and the last one is tilted 90 degrees)