Galaxy model

A function to compute and display a galaxy point cloud (spiral or elliptic), with some tunable parameters (shape, number of arms, etc...)

Design your own galaxy ! :-)

For pedagogic / scientific diffusion purposes. Is not a rigorous astrophysical model.

F5 in galaxy_model.m or galaxy_model; in console to run the program and plot the figure.

A lot of parameters -curvature, number of arms, number of stars and many others- are available in the file header to tune the shape of the model.

Since these parameters are quite sensitive, my advice is to first test them individually -one by one- to understand their influence.

Please don't forget to rate this code if it helped you. Thanks ;-)

Some additional examples you can get with this code :

Spiral galaxy

Spiral galaxy