And the world keeps spinning

So I was trying to make a stand alone movie capture and snapshot program before I posted this. I was successful in making the snapshot, however the movie poses problems when two while loops had to run simultaneously and MatLab is single thread (I do not have the parallel toolbox). It has a fix but it would take time that I am not willing to currently put into it. Maybe one day once the tools are done or I get a strike of inspiration I will do it. Regardless, here is a quick snapshot-ed image of the Earth. If you want you are able to change the rectangle of screen capture.

Round

The reason I wanted the movie capture program was to make it so I would not have to capture the following section on my phone (I don't know of any good free screen recording software). But anyway, here it goes.

As you can see from the new play, pause, rewind buttons in the above image, it has the the ability to (of course) play, pause, and rewind any plot pictured in the axis with a time step set by the user. The planets spin with their actual angular velocity and are also able to be viewed with satellites orbiting about them as well as orbiting the sun.

Earth spinning with multiple satellites orbiting. There is a 10 minute (600 second) time step between steps.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the asteroid Itokowa orbiting the sun with a ~2.8 day step.

Unfortunately, the buttons work in a while loop so I cannot make a video of them without including the capture code in the same loop.


Time to start working on the tools. I think I may have to write them as "plugins" to avoid the need to edit the structure of some of the other functions.