On 6/24/2010 3:59 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> I have never done that really seriously. I remember having done only one
> scene with planets in 2006 (an unfinished project, as most are) with a view
> of Neptune from Triton. This time as an illustration of a scene from Samuel
> Delany's Nova.
>
> The only thing I did was to scale down the orbital parameters, along with
> the size of, and distance to, the planet and satellites, to make the scene
> manageable and still keep the apparent dimensions. For a few satellites I
> had to scale them a bit up after that, to make them visible from Triton.
> Images must be somewhere in p.b.i. for that year.
>
> Thomas
>
>


This guy seems to have done all that:


http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/

Too bad he didn't release his code. I might email him. The Object 
Collection could definitely use it!


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