readme.md

What is is ?

Project dedicated to imagination of space-combat in solar system in near future based on realistic physics. It is inspired and strogly influences by Project Rho: Atomic rockets webpages. Here I try to complement that great project by calculations, simulations and visualizations using modern interactive media (Jupyter notebook, HTML5, javascript, WebGL ) and by my personal views on some aspects of space combat. In some aspects my oppinion can slightly deviate from Project Rho, but mostly we share agenda to promote hard-scify, and disclaim commont fault of superficial sci-fy. We both try to extrapolate how space combat may really look like in future.

How to read it?

Easies way is to open ch1_basics.ipynb through nbviewer.jupyter.org by following link:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ProkopHapala/SimpleSimulationEngine/blob/master/projects/SpaceCombat/ch1_basics.ipynb

other option is to download the notebook locally on your computer and open it using ipython (easiest form linux terminal) by command:

$ jupyter notebook ch1_basics.ipynb

for HTML with javascript use: http://htmlpreview.github.io/ for example:

https://rawgit.com/ProkopHapala/SimpleSimulationEngine/master/projects/SpaceCombat/HTML/StickSpaceCraft.html

for offline browsing use python web server

$ cd ~/git/SimpleSimulationEngine/projects/SpaceCombat/HTML
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

and than in web browser open http://127.0.0.1:8000

Tools used

• Jupyter/IPython notebooks ( graphics by matplotlib, posibly POVray)
• HTML5 + Javascript + WebGL for 3D rendering
• Latex and HTML / wiki documnation
• Matplotlib and POVray for graphics
• python and bash script to glue all. It will render all figures and latex