Feature Request: Adaptive orbit display

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Eric Abbott

Feature Request: Adaptive orbit display

Post #1by Eric Abbott » 08.12.2004, 09:53

Currently the orbit display in Celestia seems to be done by
calculating points at regular angluar intervals along the orbit.
This gives akward results for a planet orbit if you are near
the planet: if the next two calculated orbit points are far away
from the current position, the line between them will miss
the planet.
A nice improvement for this problem would be an adaptive
algorithm for calculating orbit dispays: if the view point is
close to one portion of the orbit, adaptively refine the angular
interval to improve orbit display precision.

Just an idea for improvement. Still, Celestia is a great program!
-- Eric

Slalomsk8er with login pr

Post #2by Slalomsk8er with login pr » 08.12.2004, 13:10

This is a good Idee.

But the planet can still be out of the orbit as IHMO the planet location is more prezice then the orbit calculation.

Thanks, Dominik

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Post #3by Kendrix » 10.12.2004, 02:57

There is already a precise rendering for spacecrafts.


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