Code license:	GNU General Public License v3
Labels:	n-body, particle-particle, physics, education, Astronomy, simulation, newtonian, opengl, asteroid, evolutionary, algorithm, interception, spacecraft, orbital, mechanics

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Project owners:
	carey.pridgeon

This is the final version of nMod, as it has been superceded by my latest project, a concurrent n-body modelling framework called Moody. This project can be found here.

Moody has been specifically developed for use by researchers and students, so should be rather easier to adapt to your needs than nMod.

The Solar System model included with nMod will be further developed within that project, not this one.

If you are considering, or currently using nMod for research I can still offer support, but I suggest you investigate Moody to see if that better suits your needs.

The nMod n-Body Modelling Toolkit provides software to run experiments in the field of n-Body modelling on a normal home computer.

This means modelling asteroid/comet motion, spacecraft flight, planetary systems, or stellar cluster/small galaxy systems.

The toolkit contains a Particle Particle n-Body model, an OpenGL viewer to display the output of the n-Body model, and a number of utilities for editing existing output files.

For tutorials on these tools and n-Body modelling in general, read the user manual.

Operating systems currently supported are Linux and Windows XP. The current stable nMod Toolkit version is 3.2.

Reference Builds are provided for the n-Body model and the viewer. These can be used for simple experiments. More advanced work (such as using evolutionary algorithms to discover an optimal orbit for a spacecraft) requires that you use nMod-ea. nMod-ea is an enhanced version of the nMod Toolkit specially designed for evolutionary algorithm based research. The current reference release is based on this new version.