Interacting galaxies in full 3D ! ;-)

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Re: Interacting galaxies in full 3D ! ;-)

Post #21by selden » 10.03.2009, 22:12

Cham wrote:
selden wrote:Herewith. Using your URL (which I had to edit. The spaces caused problems when copying it.)

Selden, the squares are indicating that the blob.png texture isn't at its proper place (textures/medres folder). Check that you do have the proper texture correctly installed.
Nope, sorry: that's not the problem. Here's a screengrab with Windows showing where it is.
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Re: Interacting galaxies in full 3D ! ;-)

Post #22by t00fri » 10.03.2009, 23:32

Let me modestly (yet a bit proudly ;-) ) add that also in the standard Celestia distribution galaxies appear to be interacting pretty close to the actual configuration. This is of course NOT with Hubble resolution, and neither generated after simulating with 475000 particles ;-), but still...:

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Here is how NGC 4676 ("Les Souris") interact in Celestia compared to hires imaging:

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