Iceberg simulator – draw an iceberg and see how it floats and melts

The premise of the original simulator was to show how (reasonably shaped) icebergs <i>actually float</i>. This one adds melting and says: &quot;his new code actually takes material away from the surface of the iceberg in a uniform way. It works more like you would expect melting ice to behave.&quot; But this is <i>not</i> how I would expect a melting iceberg to behave at all, and I&#x27;m fairly sure that -- unlike the floating part -- this is <i>not</i> now icebergs <i>actually melt</i>.<p>There is no reason to believe that the air and the water around the iceberg are the same temperature or otherwise in a state where melting would be completely uniform. This changes a somewhat scientific simulation into an unscientific toy.

Last time it was posted, someone had found it behaves weirdly with an infinity symbol shaped iceberg.<p>I tried it with this one, and yes, that issue is still there, though it seems to be better. Now most of them split into two icebergs, but some just jump away..<p>Try it..

This made me realize how much the Continental USA looks like a seahorse if you flip it on its side. The east coast is the head with Florida as its ears and the West Coast is the tail curled up

Fun. There&#x27;s something captivating about watching a melting shape.<p>Bug: countries from the Southern Hemisphere are mirrored left-to-right. AFAICT NH countries are ok. Something

Hmmm ... Turkey is constrained to Anatolia without Thrace.

Please add Indonesia, it would be fun with its 15000 islands. Also South Africa, which has a hole in it.

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Something isn&#x27;t quite right with Florida. The majority of it just disappears once there is a break due to melting.

Most fun was Japan because of the islands, interesting that it took Hokkaido longest to stabilise.

Every single iceberg I tried always converged on 89.0% submerged.

Great Britain is missing Northern Ireland.

instead of &quot;simply&quot; melting, maybe you could also show the sea&#x2F;air temperatures?

Michigan and Chile are pretty fun