A stunning, movie-quality 3D solar system simulation featuring realistic planetary systems, moons, asteroid belts, comets, and advanced visual effects powered by Three.js.
🚀 Explore it here: View the Solar System Simulation
- All moons orbit their parent planets with accurate relative speeds
- 2,000+ asteroids between Mars and Jupiter
- Realistic size and color variations
- 5 comets with highly elliptical orbits
- Particle-based comet tails
- Enhanced Sun: Animated surface with corona effects
- Atmospheric Glow: Gas giants have realistic atmospheric halos
- Saturn's Rings: Detailed ring system with proper tilt
- Space Dust: 5,000+ particle space dust system
- Nebula Background: Animated cosmic background
- Advanced Lighting: Multiple light sources with rim lighting
- Enhanced Starfield: 15,000+ stars with color variation and twinkling
- Keyboard Controls: WASD for camera movement, Space for pause, R for reset
- Quality Settings: Performance/Balanced/Quality/Cinematic modes
- Visual Toggles: Show/hide moons, asteroids, comets, atmosphere, particles
- Enhanced UI: Modern, responsive control panel with statistics
- Object Focus: Click any celestial body to focus and get detailed information
- Advanced Materials: Phong shading with specular highlights
- Dynamic Shadows: High-resolution shadow mapping
- Shader Effects: Custom shaders for sun, atmosphere, and effects
- Tone Mapping: ACES Filmic tone mapping for realistic colors
- Anti-aliasing: High-quality anti-aliasing for smooth edges
- Quality Levels: Adaptive quality settings for different hardware
- LOD System: Level-of-detail for distant objects
- Efficient Rendering: Optimized geometry and materials
- FPS Monitoring: Real-time performance tracking
- Touch Controls: Optimized for mobile devices
- Responsive UI: Adaptive interface for all screen sizes
- Performance Scaling: Automatic quality adjustment for mobile
- No installation is needed, it runs in browser.
- Just run the index.html file.
- Drag: Rotate camera around solar system
- Scroll: Zoom in/out (20-300 units)
- Click Object: Focus camera and show detailed information
- Hover: Show tooltip with basic information
- WASD: Fly camera (W/S: up/down, A/D: left/right)
- Space: Pause/Resume animation
- R: Reset camera to default position
- Global Speed: 0-5x animation speed multiplier
- Camera Distance: Manual zoom control
- Planet Speeds: Individual speed control for each planet (0-10x)
- Visual Toggles: Show/hide different object types
- Quality Settings: Performance optimization levels
- Three.js: Latest WebGL 2.0 features
- Shader Programming: Custom GLSL shaders
- Physics: Realistic orbital mechanics
- Lighting: Advanced multi-light setup
- Desktop: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
- Mobile: iOS Safari, Chrome Mobile
- WebGL: Requires WebGL 2.0 support
- Performance: Adaptive quality scaling
- Modify planet data in `enhanced-script.js`
- Adjust visual effects in shader code
- Customize UI styling in `styles.css`
- Add new celestial objects easily
- Use Performance mode on older devices
- Close other browser tabs for better performance
- Reduce particle effects if experiencing lag
- Lower camera distance for better frame rates
- Automatic quality detection
- Touch-optimized controls
- Reduced particle density
- Efficient memory management
This enhanced solar system simulation is open source and available under the MIT License.
- Three.js: 3D graphics library
- NASA: Astronomical data and inspiration
- ESA: European Space Agency data
- Community: Open source contributors
Experience the cosmos like never before with this cinematic-quality 3D solar system simulation! 🌌✨