/// <summary>
/// Runs a simulation on the bodies in the simulator for the simulation
/// length making time steps and recording the properties of the bodies
/// to a log file.
/// </summary>
public void Simulate()
{
if (!this.ValidateSimulation())
{
return; // Maybe throw an exception or something instead
}
int maxSteps = (int)(this.SimulationLength / this.TimeStep);
using (StreamWriter file = new StreamWriter(@"D:\My documents\Documents\Dropbox\Programming\C#\Gravity Simulator\Outputs\output.txt"))
{
for (int stepsTaken = 0; stepsTaken < maxSteps; stepsTaken++)
{
this.Bodies = CelestialBody.Update(this.Bodies, TimeStep);
if (stepsTaken % 10 == 0)
{
this.Bodies = CelestialBody.CentreOfMass(this.Bodies);
}
if (stepsTaken % this.PrintResolution == 0)
{
file.WriteLine(Bodies.ToLog());
}
}
file.WriteLine(Bodies.ToLog());
}
}
