Celestia used by Cassini Imaging

[chris]

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

[julesstoop]

Really cool, Chris :D

[Kolano]

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

[volcanopele]

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.

[LordFerret]

Pretty spiffy!

[Reiko]

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

[chris]

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

[Reiko]

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

[bh]

Super Chris... nice piccys.

[buggs_moran]

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

[selden]

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....

[ANDREA]

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