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Well, to play student's advocate here for a second: wouldn't that make it harder to see the immediate difference, given the more complex presentation? IMO this
by bbor 2y ago
Well, to play student's advocate here for a second: wouldn't that make it harder to see the immediate difference, given the more complex presentation? IMO this visualization makes it pretty immediately obvious that galaxies aren't random in a way that a massive volumetric map might not.
Would definitely be cooler in 3D, of course, I agree with that. Out of curiousity, do you know of any systems that do that? All I can find is multipurpose industry tools like https://www.openspaceproject.com/images https://www.openspaceproject.com/images and broken tools like https://spacein3d.com/universe-sandbox/ https://spacein3d.com/universe-sandbox/.
- alexanderbock 2y agoHi there, Lead Dev for OpenSpace here. We do have the ability to render galaxy (or any point cloud dataset really) in 3D space as well as stereoscopically. For an example see a video we made for Matt from SpaceTime a while back: https://youtu.be/E8rel2-kLJA?si=yqQZr7Nk9dyMDqZa&t=373 https://youtu.be/E8rel2-kLJA?si=yqQZr7Nk9dyMDqZa&t=373 Thst video uses the Tully, and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys and then a catalogue of Quasars. It would be fairly straightforward to add your random galaxy dataset as an asset as it would only require some light Lua coding and a CSV file with positions + any additional variables