A Program for modelling a two dimensional galaxy based on the density wave theory. This archive contains the source code for an article at beltoforion.de about simulating a galaxy with the density wave theory.

For more Details please read the Articles.

• https://beltoforion.de/en/spiral_galaxy_renderer [english]
• https://beltoforion.de/de/rendern_von_spiralgalaxien [german]

A typescript implementation of this code is available here:

• https://github.com/beltoforion/Galaxy-Renderer-Typescript

An online demo of the typescript version can be viewed here:

• https://beltoforion.de/en/spiral_galaxy_renderer/spiral-galaxy-renderer.html

The output of the C++ version is virtually the same.

Hers is a list of galaxies created by the algorithm:

For old system or GPU unsupported OpenGL 3.3 use overload MESA version for running application. In Linux.

MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=330 ./galaxy_rendere