Hey, I added merging, but it’s “merging out of hell” because I made a very unphysically true and crude (if you’d call it that), but working prototype of merge_collisions and the merge function itself.

It works as I intended, but not physically truly. Right now, it adds the radii of the circles themselves. If you think about it, that’s physically wrong because there’s a big difference between adding the areas of the circles versus their radii. That’s something I want to get right, so the next time I’m working on it, I’ll make sure to fix it so that we are adding the areas of the circles rather than their radii.

I also found a bit of a problem where the merged objects themselves have a shape size of (1, 1). That’s not right because if you merge two objects with shape size 1, you’d expect the new shape size to be 2. Right now, no matter how many objects you merge, it still stays at 1, resulting in a very, very dense circle.

I’m going to change that so we add the areas themselves, and have that new, bigger area update the visual representation of those astronomical objects.

I’ll keep you guys updated. See you next time.