Entry, Descent, and Landing data |
Entry, Descent, and Landing data |
Feb 17 2012, 03:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Hey Kwan..
That animation was extremely sweet! Watching the landing ellipse come into view with a good enough model of Gale was exciting. I noticed that the the G forces topped out at 12.5+ during the burning reentry phase (lets hope MSL doesn't pass out!) I'm looking forward to your refinements. (what is the primary tool (or toolset) you are using?) Great job ! -------------------- CLA CLL
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Feb 17 2012, 05:54 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Eccentric Mars orbit Member No.: 477 |
(what is the primary tool (or toolset) you are using?) Primary tool is PovRAY ray tracer. It takes a text file which describes the scene, where the spacecraft, planet, topography, sun, etc is. The scene description language is basically turing complete so that the scenes (at least how I do it) are more programs than anything. This is a mostly open-source program which I have been able to modify to directly read SPICE files. It is extremely high quality, but also extremely slow. It takes about 1 mintue to render each frame, and 24 frames per second of video. |
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Feb 21 2012, 05:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 404 Joined: 5-January 10 Member No.: 5161 |
Thanks, Kwan, for that animation. Very cool to see how it will happen in "real time."
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