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    <p>I made a program in Java where circles can bounce into each other and gravitate towards each other.</p> <p>For the most part (few circles on the screen), there are no noticeable bugs. The problem starts to happen when there is a large amount of circles on screen. Sometimes, the circles will overlap if it gets too crowded. It's as if the weight of all the other circles are crushing the circles together, causing them to overlap. Of course, there program doesn't know anything about how much a circle weighs, so it's not really crushing. Most likely, the piece of logic that handles resolving collisions is not able to handle crowded situations.</p> <p>Circles are stored in an array, and each circle goes through the array using a for loop, comparing itself to the other circles. If the distance between the center of this circle and the center of the other circle is less than the sum of their radii, then the circles are colliding. The velocities of both circles are updated using an equation for collisions.</p> <p>I think the problem occurs because if a circle is surrounded, it might receive an updated velocity into the circle behind it, while the circle behind it also receives an updated velocity into the former circle. In other words, the two circles get told to move toward each other, even though they are already touching. Once they overlap this way, I don't know why they don't undo their overlap.</p> <p>I've tried restoring touching scenario if they are overlapping by finding the distance they are overlapped, then moving them apart from each other; each moves half the overlap distance apart. This doesn't change the circle's velocity, only their position.</p> <p>This still doesn't solve the problem. If the circle is surrounded, and it overlaps with one of it's neighboring circles, its position is changed so they aren't overlapping, but this new position may cause it to overlap with another circle. Same problem.</p> <p>If there was no gravity pushing the circles together, they would eventually spread out and resolve their overlapping issues, but the gravity prevents this from happening.</p> <p>Further information:</p> <p>Gravity is not taken into account when calculating new velocities after a collision.</p>
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