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Did anyone else notice that the rendering of the orbits in the article looks strikingly similar to Kerbal Space Program's orbit UI?
by theptip 11y ago
Did anyone else notice that the rendering of the orbits in the article looks strikingly similar to Kerbal Space Program's orbit UI?
- onetwotree 11y agoI did :-) Maybe they use Kerbal to render the results of "real" simulation software?
- rspeer 11y agoNot that improbable. I recall that the discoverers of exoplanet Wolf 1061c, when journalists asked for a picture of the planet, gave them a screenshot from a simulation called Universe Sandbox 2.
- SolarNet 11y agoOr is it perhaps the other way around. Did Kerbel use the same UI as a popular rendering program used by astronomers.
- ceejayoz 11y agoOr, third option, "there's only a few decent ways to represent orbits on a graphic".
- theptip 11y agoThe colour schemes are very similar though. There are many colour schemes one could choose.
- speeder 11y agoI know that the main author of KSP was a big fan of Orbiter before making KSP, and I think he was aware of other astronomy software.
- noselasd 11y agoI always reconed Kerbal was inspired by http://www.agi.com/products/stk/ http://www.agi.com/products/stk/ , heavily used in the space industry
- david-given 11y agoI want, by the way, an interactive map of the solar system, complete with known spacecraft, with the same UI as the KSP map. I've never met anything quite as good at visualising planetary systems. I haven't found one.
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