New addon : Ecliptic Polar grid

[Cham]

Here's a small addon which adds an Ecliptic polar grid with few labels in the solar system, centered on Sol. This is usefull to show the solar system scale, study orbit eccentricity and inclination, vernal point, etc. There's a celx script to toggle ON/OFF the grid and its labels. Two views :

polar1.jpg

polar2.jpg

The addon :

Polar_Grid.zip

Comments would be appreciated.

There's a very funny "volumetric" effect, if you turn ON this polar grid and the Ecliptic grid, and change the FOV to 120° ! Move around and watch the nice visual effect !

EDIT : Maybe the labels should be in yellow for better readability ?
And should I center the grid on the solar system barycenter instead of the Sun ? Could be annoying to see the grid move when we're following the Sun, though.

[chris]

Very nice, Martin! I've been thinking that something like this would be nice to have built-in to Celestia, but it's probably best to not to add yet another feature until after 1.6.0.

--Chris

[ANDREA]

....EDIT : Maybe the labels should be in yellow for better readability ?
And should I center the grid on the solar system barycenter instead of the Sun ? Could be annoying to see the grid move when we're following the Sun, though.

Cham, it looks very nice and helpful, but I agree with you that the yellow labels would be much more readable than the red ones, and moreover centering it on the Sun is more pleasant to be seen, even if scientifically less exact.
My opinion.
Bye and thank you

Andrea