Reprinted from: http://www.matrix67.com/blog/archives/3979
The source files come from here, which provides data for 47 representative solutions to the multi-body problem (this article includes a download link), in gnuplot format. Matrix67 selected 30 of these, read the data using Mathematica, and generated 30 intuitive GIF animations. As you will see, under the influence of gravity, multiple celestial bodies may form some extremely bizarre orbits. The later solutions become increasingly non-trivial, which illustrates the difficulty of the multi-body problem.
Downloads:
Recently, I have also discovered some very interesting things regarding the N-body problem and plan to study them thoroughly. Below are some URLs I have found:
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