The Nature of Code: Cosmos Edition
A "syllabus" and repository of Processing examples for ITP fall workshop about planetariums and space visualization.
Day 1, Saturday, October 26, 10-5
10:00 AM - Overview
Planetariums and Dome Projection
- Real-time Digital Dome Rendering
- Processing Dome Projection Library
- Github Repo
- Library Documentation
- Blog post about library
- To install the library, go to Processing's Library Contribution Manager.
- Dave Pentecost and the LES Girls Club
- Carter Emmart Applications Talk
- Arts Lab Dome Resources
- After Effects Dome Camera Rig
- Unity Dome Projection from Paul Bourke
- DomeFest Videos
It looks like space, kind of
- Stars
- Planets
- 3D Models
Actual Science
- Kepler Mission Data
- Exoplanet Data Explorer
- NASA Kepler Site
- NASA Kepler Data Archive, Data Retrieval Instructions, Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
- NASA Kepler Planet Candidate Data Explorer
- Kepler's Tally of Planets by Jonathan Corum, NYTimes
- Jer Thorp's Kepler Visualization
- Extrasolar planets on Wikipedia
- Processing Sample Exoplanets Viz
- Star Data
- HYGDatabase
- The HYG Database is a compilation of stars found in three major databases: the Hipparcos Catalog, the Yale Bright Star Catalog, and the Gliese Catalog of Nearby Stars.
- Get data from github repo.
- Processing HYG Database Examples
- Chrome Experiment 100,000 Stars, Making of 100,000 Stars
- Robert Hodgin's 100 Year Starship Screensaver
- Right Ascension, Declination, Light Year
- More star data at Sol Station
- HYGDatabase
- NBody Simulation
Images from Space
- ISS Space Station Photos
- Nasa "Multimedia" HD
- Nasa Earth Observatory
- ALMA telescope: star birth
Other sources for space data
- AMNH Digital Universe
- Partiview, Partiview Planets
- active space missions traveling beyond Earth orbit
- Ardusat
- Black Hole Gas Cloud