Orion flythrough

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Orion flythrough

Post #1by AuReality » 19.12.2003, 13:35

This may be superfluous, but anyone not having visited the Orion flythrough at http://vis.sdsc.edu/research/orion.html yet, should really do so.
It is awesome.

Paul

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Post #2by don » 29.12.2003, 07:13

Awesome indeed!

Thanks for the link Paul.

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Post #3by Evil Dr Ganymede » 29.12.2003, 07:58

Wow. That's dead cool!! :D

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Post #4by TERRIER » 31.12.2003, 13:59

This is well worth looking at. Don't let the large (21MB or 29MB) download file sizes for the movie put you off!

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Post #5by ArneB » 04.01.2004, 14:19

Amazing! I just wish they had mentioned how they came to know the 3D stucture of the nebulae. Can this voxel thing be done with OpenGL?
Is there any other way to render volumetric fog in OpenGL?

One way I have thought of (I'm not a programmer, so this may sound stupid) is to have a function with three parameters f(x,y,z) that produces a cloud like pattern (f is the opacity of each coordinate) and make several slices, so that you have a few layers of two dimensional billboards laying upon each other, perpendicular to the point of view.

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Post #6by adamnieman » 04.01.2004, 17:48

Nice link, thanks :)

You might like this one too: http://www.goat.com/universe.html. It's a whistle-stop tour of the Galaxy lasting 60 seconds, beautifully rendered, ending in Chicago (I think - my North American geography isn't very good).

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Post #7by Brendan » 04.01.2004, 19:31

adamnieman wrote:Nice link, thanks :)

You might like this one too: http://www.goat.com/universe.html. It's a whistle-stop tour of the Galaxy lasting 60 seconds, beautifully rendered, ending in Chicago (I think - my North American geography isn't very good).

Adam


It zooms into this location in Baltimore.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=1803&y=21748&z=18&w=2

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Post #8by adamnieman » 04.01.2004, 19:37

Wow, that TerraServer site is VERY cool 8)

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Post #9by AuReality » 05.01.2004, 13:13

adamnieman wrote:Nice link, thanks :)

You might like this one too: http://www.goat.com/universe.html. It's a whistle-stop tour of the Galaxy lasting 60 seconds, beautifully rendered, ending in Chicago (I think - my North American geography isn't very good).

Adam

Yes, very nice as well. Thank you Adam.
I just wish the movie were a bit more down-tempo...

Paul


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