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3D Solar System with OpenGL and C#

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17 Apr 2013CPOL6 min read 200K   22K   64  
A demo of a solar system programmed in OpenGL and C#
In this article, you will see a simple 3D solar system implementation with OpenGL and C#. In the demo, you will learn how OpenGL rotation works and how to rotate a mesh around an arbitrary axis. You will also make use of the main OpenGL primitives: Point, Line and Triangles.
/* 
 *This code is property of Vasily Tserekh
 *if you like it you can visit my personal dev blog
 *http://vasilydev.blogspot.com
*/

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Tao.OpenGl; 

namespace SistemaSolar
{
    class Star
    {
        List<Position> stars = new List<Position>();
   
        public void CreateStars(int amount)
        {
            Random r = new Random();
            int count = 0;

            while (count != amount)
            {
                Position p = default(Position);
                p.x = (r.Next(110)) * (float)Math.Pow(-1, r.Next());
                p.z = (r.Next(110)) * (float)Math.Pow(-1, r.Next());
                p.y = (r.Next(110)) * (float)Math.Pow(-1, r.Next());
                if (Math.Pow(Math.Pow(p.x, 2) + Math.Pow(p.y, 2) + Math.Pow(p.z, 2), 1 / 3f) > 15)
                {
                    stars.Add(p);
                    count++;
                }
            }
        }

        public void Draw()
        {
            Gl.glBegin(Gl.GL_POINTS);
            Gl.glColor3f(1, 1, 1);//color of the stars
            Gl.glPointSize(3); 
            foreach (var item in stars)
            {
                Gl.glVertex3f(item.x, item.y, item.z);   
            }
            Gl.glEnd(); 
        }
    }
}

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Born on 86, had my first computer at the age of 8, wrote my first code at the age of 15(pascal), began to study software engineering at 2005 and graduated in 2010. I have a dev blog www.vasilydev.blogspot.com. My real passion is 3D game programming and playing guitar. I've programmed stuff in C#, python, Delphi, PHP, C++, JS, QT and others...

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