POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Solar System : Re: Solar System Server Time
19 Apr 2024 23:18:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Solar System  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 12 May 2017 09:30:01
Message: <web.5915b8114e850994c437ac910@news.povray.org>
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_=22Yadgar=22_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:


> Are the orbits true Keplerian ellipses? If yes, how did you code that?

They aren't (yet) - but ellipses are easy to code in POV-Ray, since they're just
circles scaled in one axis.  Not that the elliptical orbits of the planets are
very elliptical.


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