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Show HN: Jupiter and Its 79 Moons
- proc0 7y ago79? Dammit Jupiter stop hogging all the moons.
- walrus01 7y agothe wikipedia pages for moons of jupiter and saturn are quite thorough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter Zooming out in this visualization and changing the view angle a bit really helps to understand how jupiter sort of functions like a solar system vacuum cleaner, grabbing up loose objects that on multi-million year time scales happen to cross its orbit.
- ncmncm 7y agoAny explanation for the huge gap beyond Callisto?
- happppy 7y agoHow can I detect collision between different objects and is there any way to add custom sprites or svg elements?
- tony 7y agoFantastic. Starred. Could the library that built this (https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/ https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/ / https://github.com/typpo/spacekit https://github.com/typpo/spacekit) be used to replace https://eyes.nasa.gov https://eyes.nasa.gov? Application ideas: Wikipedia could embed something like this in astronomy pages. Or other way around, wikipedia could be integrated into the app itself if something is clicked on, a wikipedia entry comes up. Or a sidebar with artifacts in the solar system with a search+autocomplete, and clicking it zooms to it+brings up info. So many possibilities my man. It's also smooth at the fastest speed. TypeScript is amazing by the way. If you started it, I think you're a potential candidate to feel the benefits of it with spacekit.