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The CICLOPS group is using Celestia screenshots on the upcoming events section of their website:

http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2592&flash=1

Cool stuff . . .

--Chris

Really cool, Chris :D

Its a shame they didn't turn anti-aliasing on.

Yeah, my computer isn't exactly the fastest in the world, so I turned off features that I didn't think I need...

EDIT: hmm, I misunderstood that function. Doesn't seem to effect performance on my machine. I'll make sure to turn it on for Rev40.

Pretty spiffy!

The AA doesn't do anything for me. It looks the same on or off.

volcanopele wrote:Yeah, my computer isn't exactly the fastest in the world, so I turned off features that I didn't think I need...

EDIT: hmm, I misunderstood that function. Doesn't seem to effect performance on my machine. I'll make sure to turn it on for Rev40.

There are two types of antialiasing: line antialiasing for orbit paths, constellation figures, etc. And then full-scene antialiasing, which has to be enabled by uncommenting a line in celestia.cfg. Whether full-scene antialiasing affects performance will depend on how powerful your graphics card is and what resolution you run at.

--Chris

chris wrote:

volcanopele wrote:Yeah, my computer isn't exactly the fastest in the world, so I turned off features that I didn't think I need...

EDIT: hmm, I misunderstood that function. Doesn't seem to effect performance on my machine. I'll make sure to turn it on for Rev40.

There are two types of antialiasing: line antialiasing for orbit paths, constellation figures, etc. And then full-scene antialiasing, which has to be enabled by uncommenting a line in celestia.cfg. Whether full-scene antialiasing affects performance will depend on how powerful your graphics card is and what resolution you run at.

--Chris

Thanks for mentioning uncommenting that line! I can see the difference now

Super Chris... nice piccys.

It might also be neat to provide celurls with each shot since most of us wouldn't be installing the full Cassini trajectory (from your other post).

Thanks

Celestia already includes a full Cassini trajectory, it's just not accurate to a fraction of a kilometer as the corresponding Spice trajectory is.

And, don't forget that most people don't have Celestia, so that including Cel:// URLs would generate lots of complaints about malfunctioning Web pages.

But that shouldn't prevent someone here from generating them....

chris wrote:The CICLOPS group is using Celestia screenshots on the upcoming events section of their website:
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2592&flash=1
Cool stuff . . .
--Chris

That's very nice, but I think Cyclops people could even put a link to Celestia download page and Forum, instead of writing only
"Graphycs created with Celestia", having they used celestia for their purposes.
It's a matter of kindness and thankfulness, IMHO.
Anyhow, Chris, this is better than nothing.
Bye

Andrea