[TML] ANNOUNCE: New Sourceforge Project

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 2/13/08 9:13 AM, "Peter L. Berghold" <peter at berghold.net> wrote:

> Jerry W Barrington wrote:
>>>  It's based on a lot of science.
>>> From what I've read on these simulations, it'll probably take days for a
>> full run (about 1000 stars for about 4-5 billion years), but I don't intend
>> to do it really often.  :)
> 
> What you're describing reminds me of a piece of code I used to have in
> my collection called "accrete." I wish I could remember who wrote it but
> I lost the code when a disk crashed (dummy me... no backup...) and have
> no idea where I got it originally.  I was trying to adapt that once upon
> a time.

Accrete has been around for a long time, but it mainly has to do with making
the planets.  A descendant of it is called StarGen, more up-to-date and with
more detail.  I want to marry that to code that accurately simulates the
evolution of stars and clusters.  It's kind of a major project though.