Unstable orbits.

[robly18]

Upon generous amounts of fine tuning I managed to manage doing the following:

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Gravity Fun at TestTubeGames.com: [ForceG: -2,Qual: 1,Zoom: 1,xSet: 2,ySet: 8], [x0: -100,y0: 0,vx: 0,vy: 0,t0: 0,who: 1,m: 1000], [x0: 100,y0: 0,vx: 0,vy: 0,t0: 0,who: 1,m: 1000], [x0: 200,y0: 0,vx: 0,vy: -2.891,t0: 0,who: 2,m: 100]

[A Random Player]

Woah. That's cool. I never could get a two star planet anywhere near that stable. But can you do the same with stars orbiting each other?

Though it it *that* unstable? The orbit line appears thick, so there looks like there's some oscillation. (Unless it's slowly falling apart?) (Edit: The latter appears to be the case. It's still unstable!)
100th post!

[robly18]

Yes, it's still unstable. Which is why I'm fine tuning it. You gotta get to a "good enough" value someday!
Also, my next goal will be to make this with moving stars. Should prove to be a worthy challenge

[testtubegames]

Neat!

As for doing it in a more complex way -- good luck! Chaos is a cruel mistress. Though, if anyone can fine tune some co-orbiting planets, I'm sure it's you...