planet — Simulates a planet orbiting in a binary star system.
planet simulates a planet orbiting in a binary star system. The outputs are the x, y and z coordinates of the orbiting planet. It is possible for the planet to achieve escape velocity by a close encounter with a star. This makes this system somewhat unstable.
ax, ay, az planet kmass1, kmass2, ksep, ix, iy, iz, ivx, ivy, ivz, idelta \
[, ifriction] [, iskip]
ix, iy, iz -- the initial x, y and z coordinates of the planet
ivx, ivy, ivz -- the initial velocity vector components for the planet.
idelta -- the step size used to approximate the differential equation.
ifriction (optional, default=0) -- a value for friction, which can be used to keep the system from blowing up
iskip (optional, default=0) -- if non zero skip the initialisation of the filter. (New in Csound version 4.23f13 and 5.0)
ax, ay, az -- the output x, y, and z coodinates of the planet
ksep -- the separation between the two stars
kmass1 -- the mass of the first star
kmass2 -- the mass of the second star
Here is an example of the planet opcode. It uses the file planet.csd.
Example 769. Example of the planet opcode.
See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.
<CsoundSynthesizer> <CsOptions> ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform ; Audio out Audio in No messages -odac -iadc -d ;;;RT audio I/O ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below: ; -o planet.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform </CsOptions> <CsInstruments> ; Initialize the global variables. sr = 44100 kr = 44100 ksmps = 1 nchnls = 2 ; Instrument #1 - a planet oribiting in 3D space. instr 1 ; Create a basic tone. kamp init 5000 kcps init 440 ifn = 1 asnd oscil kamp, kcps, ifn ; Figure out its X, Y, Z coordinates. km1 init 0.5 km2 init 0.35 ksep init 2.2 ix = 0 iy = 0.1 iz = 0 ivx = 0.5 ivy = 0 ivz = 0 ih = 0.0003 ifric = -0.1 ax1, ay1, az1 planet km1, km2, ksep, ix, iy, iz, \ ivx, ivy, ivz, ih, ifric ; Place the basic tone within 3D space. kx downsamp ax1 ky downsamp ay1 kz downsamp az1 idist = 1 ift = 0 imode = 1 imdel = 1.018853416 iovr = 2 aw2, ax2, ay2, az2 spat3d asnd, kx, ky, kz, idist, \ ift, imode, imdel, iovr ; Convert the 3D sound to stereo. aleft = aw2 + ay2 aright = aw2 - ay2 outs aleft, aright endin </CsInstruments> <CsScore> ; Table #1 a sine wave. f 1 0 16384 10 1 ; Play Instrument #1 for 10 seconds. i 1 0 10 e </CsScore> </CsoundSynthesizer>
More information on this opcode: http://www.csoundjournal.com/issue9/FlutesInOrbit.html , written by Brian Redfern.