kepler ellipses
finally got the planets off circular orbits. gave each one a real eccentricity and major axis (which i knew nothing about till now lol) , then a newton raphson solver for kepler’s equation so they speed up and slow down like actual planets. mercury goes fast through perihelion now while neptune barely moves the difference in speed is way more obvious than with the old circles. took longer than i expected to stop the planets from drifting off their ellipses, but it’s better now. (i hope you can see the developmental process through my pics)