See the write-up on medium.com for more information and background.

To run the model, first make sure everything from requirements.txt is installed first with pip install -r requirements.txt. Next,

python calc.py

Known solutions found with this model are archived in found_configurations.

Once you've solved the model up to $N=100$ you can make an animation with

python draw_movie.py

http://thoppe.github.io/tf_thomson_charges/index.html