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29 July 2026 · Physics / Creative coding

Inside the Simulator: How PHYS//LAB Works

Velocity Verlet integration, n-body gravity with softening, the nineteen percent of angular momentum that went missing until the spheres learned to spin, rolling without slipping landing on exactly five sevenths of the sliding speed, hydrogen orbitals drawn by sampling the real probability density, and the one render layer that ate 92 of every 112 milliseconds.

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