Am 23.05.2017 um 00:50 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> On 5/12/2017 8:10 AM, Bald Eagle wrote:
>>
>> Here's the animation of the solar system over one Earth year.
>>
>> I just worked out a fast and efficient approximation for apsidal
>> (orbital)
>> precession last night. (not that it will make any noticeable effect)
>>
>> Still need to look up a bunch of things and do some further editing on
>> the code
>> before it gets fleshed out.
>>
>> Not sure how I ought to place the planets - so I just started at full
>> syzygy.
>> I may trace out the orbits in a future version.
>>
> 
> Is POVray powerful enough to render details at large scale? I thought
> there was a memory issue.

The issue with renders of the solar system is usually not memory, but
precision; for example, if you set up a solar system with the sun at
<0,0,0>, trying to render one of Mars' moons will give you issues with
the precision used in the bounding mechanism.

That issue can be solved by translating the whole solar system so that
the camera ends up near <0,0,0>.

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