Science LinX Herschel Exhibit
Posted by Roy Triesscheijn on 19th June 2011
For Science LinX I’ve working on an exhibit regarding the ESA Herschel satellite for the last 6 months, and I’m happy to inform you that it’s almost complete.
Features
-Camera is moved by using multi-touch signals sent by monitor,
-Accurate simulation of our solar system, planets support properties like eccentricity, inclination, orbital radius, equatorial diameter, rotations per earth-year, orbits per earth-year.
-Herschel satellite stationary in lagrange point L2.
-Fully 3D
-Multiple lighting effects
- Particle effects (not currently used)
-Beautiful skybox generated using Space Scape
-Expandable information boxes slowly center arc-ball camera on P.O.I.
-Twitter integration (following the @ESAHERSCHEL channel)
-Clickable planets, satellites and points of interests
-Multiple Zoom levels smoothly change information windows, ‘tunnel vision’.
Screenshots
Anyway, this all sounds exciting (or not) but it’s always better to see it for yourself:
The Team
-Bart v/d Laar (Project Manager Science LinX)
-Ingeborg Veldman (Project Manager Science LinX Virtual)
-Hilbert Dijkstra (Project Designer, Text Writer)
-Roy Triesscheijn (Programmer)
-Hugo Engwerda (Artist)
-Gerwin Kramer (Modeler)
-Peter Barthel (Astronomer/Technical Consultant)
Tags: Herschel, Science LinX, Work, XNA
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