Interactive solar system

Orbital Garden

A three-dimensional solar system to gently touch, distort, explore, and watch return to harmony.

Best with sound off, a little curiosity on, and no objective.

How to touch it

A few gentle gestures

Drag to look around

Dragging rotates your viewpoint around the whole garden.

Scroll or pinch to approach

Move closer to inspect a world, then zoom back out to find your bearings.

Tap a planet to visit

The camera travels in. A focused planet reveals its most important moons.

Hold empty space to bend

Press and hold away from a planet to briefly pull the orbital fabric toward your touch.

Tap the Sun for a pulse, adjust the small time control to make orbital drawings, and use Return to Reality whenever you want the system to settle.