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A new method of calculating the 3D shapes of planetary nebulae using GPUs is described at
http://www.cg.cs.tu-bs.de/people/wenger ... /pn3d.html

Their technical report is in German, while the research paper is a PDF in English.
Algebraic 3D Reconstruction of Planetary Nebulae (Wenger, Fern?ndez, Morisset, Magnor)

Their results were presented a few weeks ago at WSCG 2009.

AArrgh !

We need this integrated into Celestia !

That seems pretty interesting because that mean we could feed the system with a single image and get the 3D object... That would be great!

This looks indeed interesting, but ...

I hope all of you realise, that this can not be implemented into Celestia in the way that Celestia itself renders the nebulae each time on the users computer.

Because then the minimum configuration for the graphics card would have to be an Nvidea 8xxx or bigger series.

The use the GPU for rendering.

Just to toss in a wrench, before everyone gets too carried away.

Regards,

Guckytos