Rover visualization and other apps, For discussions of ways to view and understand the mission Options

[Phil Stooke]

Hi Everyone. I am starting a thread for discussions of the many ways people are interacting with Perseverance (and potentially other missions). These subjects are getting spread around other threads and maybe getting in the way of basic mission updates etc., so this is a place to bring this together. Feel free to contribute to it.
I am going to start by asking about panoramas - what's the best way to do this with Perseverance images, especially Navcam images from every end of drive?
Phil

[Andreas Plesch]

Very nice 3D scene ! I think the larger scale and focus on the rover model complements very well what I have pieced together at https://bit.ly/PercyMAP which started out more as a zoomable interactive, detailed map and then expanded a bit to include 3d features.

I am developing that 3d map at https://github.com/andreasplesch/Mars2020/t...main/docs/3dmap . The technology is quite different from three.js and the code needs refactoring but please feel free to adopt anything you may find useful in this repo.

May I ask if I can use your enhanced Perseverance glTF model on my page ? It would be pretty much a drop in replacement and would be a nice addition.

[Ryan Kinnett]

Very nice 3D scene ! I think the larger scale and focus on the rover model complements very well what I have pieced together at https://bit.ly/PercyMAP which started out more as a zoomable interactive, detailed map and then expanded a bit to include 3d features.

I am developing that 3d map at https://github.com/andreasplesch/Mars2020/t...main/docs/3dmap . The technology is quite different from three.js and the code needs refactoring but please feel free to adopt anything you may find useful in this repo.

May I ask if I can use your enhanced Perseverance glTF model on my page ? It would be pretty much a drop in replacement and would be a nice addition.

Thanks Andreas. Nice job on that mapping page. It is definitely helping folks build a sense of scale around the landing area. I was hoping this thread could be a sort of showcase for tools that may be useful in various ways to mission followers. Please consider writing a synopsis about your mapping page here.

You’re welcome to use the rover model. Do you think you might want to articulate the rover? If so, then you’ll need some code to map and control the joints. If you don’t need to articulate then I can send you a gltf with the arm stowed and merged back into one solid mesh object, which helps with performance. Or something in between - we can make just the RSM articulable, for example.