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I want to place my spinner colony in a geo-stationary orbit around
Jupiter. Anyone have any good looking solar system scenes that I might use?
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http://isometricland.com
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On 6/19/2010 2:06 PM, SharkD wrote:
> I want to place my spinner colony in a geo-stationary orbit around
> Jupiter. Anyone have any good looking solar system scenes that I might use?
>
Preferably one that is somewhat accurate /and/ easy to configure so that
I can position everything such that the sun is also visible.
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http://isometricland.com
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SharkD <pos### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> I want to place my spinner colony in a geo-stationary orbit around
> Jupiter. Anyone have any good looking solar system scenes that I might use?
>
> --
> http://isometricland.com
I do not, but it shouldn't be hard to make a Jovian scene. Aside from its moons
and possibly Saturn, the other planets will be far enough away that they
wouldn't easily be distinguishable from stars.
In any case, it would not be possible to have anything in geostationary orbit,
but around Jupiter. I assume you mean an orbit around Jupiter that tries to
keep the earth in line of sight at all times?
I have to admit, I am intrigued by the whole spinner space colony thing. I am
going to try my hand at one, but of a slightly different design to let in more
light.
-Reactor
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On 6/19/2010 3:57 PM, Reactor wrote:
> In any case, it would not be possible to have anything in geostationary orbit,
> but around Jupiter. I assume you mean an orbit around Jupiter that tries to
> keep the earth in line of sight at all times?
No, I mean in orbit around Jupiter.
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SharkD <pos### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 6/19/2010 3:57 PM, Reactor wrote:
> > I assume you mean an orbit around Jupiter that tries to
> > keep the earth in line of sight at all times?
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> No, I mean in orbit around Jupiter.
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> --
> http://isometricland.com
For some reason, I feel like I know less about what you want after reading that.
Do you mean a Jovian stationary orbit?
Can you describe in more detail?
-Reactor
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On 6/19/2010 2:06 PM, SharkD wrote:
> I want to place my spinner colony in a geo-stationary orbit around
> Jupiter. Anyone have any good looking solar system scenes that I might use?
>
I ended up stealing a planet texture from here:
http://www.midnightkite.com/render.html
The position of the planets and sun, however, I had to make up
completely arbitrarily. :(
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"SharkD" <pos### [at] gmailcom> schreef in bericht
news:4c1f6aa2$1@news.povray.org...
> On 6/19/2010 2:06 PM, SharkD wrote:
>> I want to place my spinner colony in a geo-stationary orbit around
>> Jupiter. Anyone have any good looking solar system scenes that I might
>> use?
Sorry for not answering earlier. On the NASA site, you can find the wrapable
images for all solar system planets and most satellites:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Jupiter
Thomas
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On 6/20/2010 12:19 AM, Reactor wrote:
> Do you mean a Jovian stationary orbit?
Yes. And I'd like the sun and planet positions/sizes/orientations to be
proportionately correct with respect to each other. (They don't need to
be at the same scale as the station though. I'm willing to fudge that
bit to keep POV-Ray from choking on the huge scale differences.)
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On 6/22/2010 7:50 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Sorry for not answering earlier. On the NASA site, you can find the wrapable
> images for all solar system planets and most satellites:
> http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Jupiter
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> Thomas
>
>
How about code for the orbital characteristics? It's been a while since
I tried (and never entirely succeeded) doing the calculations myself.
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"SharkD" <pos### [at] gmailcom> schreef in bericht
news:4c22c7f0$1@news.povray.org...
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> How about code for the orbital characteristics? It's been a while since I
> tried (and never entirely succeeded) doing the calculations myself.
>
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
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