Awards & Nominations
Space Frontier has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Finalists Honorable Mentions
Holo Space
High-Level Project Summary
Our project uses the pyramid hologram method to visualize Sun's solar flare. It has two main functionalities: - Providing interesting and attractive way to visualize Sun's solar flare - Providing information about the lates solar flare event (when it started, when it peaked, when it ended and it's power class type). The information is also presented with the pyramid hologram technology.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our Hologram Visualization of the Solar Flare is (for now) a local application that provides the user with an interesting and attractive way of exploring the solar flare. The user can either watch a explanational hologram representation of the Sun with it's solar flare or watch a hologram text describing the latest solar flare event.
The hologram part in our aplication works by specifically designed videos that show four sided clip with which you get a hologram when you place a plastic pyramid in the center of the screen.
The main benefit of our project is the captivating nature of the hologram. The pyramid hologram is a method that hasn't been widely used. We think that it has a lot of potential in visualization.
With our project we aim to achieve better understanding of the solar flare. Visualization is one of the best ways of understanding and remembering something that is why we picked it. In our second step of the project we plan to make the functionalities accessible all around the world and the best way for that is by making a website for it. It must show how to make your own plastic pyramid so you can watch the holograms at home.
The main tools we used are provided by the vast functionalities of the Python coding language. It is used for the making of the videos, getting and transforming the information from the API and the local aplication menu.
Technologies: For the code we used only the hight level programming langage Python.
It has a lot of modules that made our work a lot easier.
The modules we used are:
Tkinter - We used it to make a console application with wich we can access our functionalities.
OpenCV - We used it to open the solar flare video for the hologram representation.
Moviepy - We used it to manipulate videos to make them in a format with which to create the hologram when the pyramid is placed on the screen.
Requests - To make requests to the NASA Solar Flare API.
Datetime - To input today's date and yesterday's date to the API.
Some technologies out of the coding sphere are:
Pencill2D - To animate the Solar Flare representation.
Abdobe Photoshop - To draw the elements we animated.
Davinci Resolve - To Edit the the animation and the video as a hole.
Space Agency Data
To get relevant information about the latest solar flare we used the Solar Flare NASA API (FLR).
Hackathon Journey
In this Hackathon we learned that with hard work and team work you can do anything. We also learned that NASA has a lot of interesting information that people don't often see.
References
FLR API: https://api.nasa.gov/DONKI/SEP?
Tkinter: https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html
Moviepy: https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/
Requests: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Datetime: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html
OpenCV: https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d6/d00/tutorial_py_root.html
Pencill2D: https://www.pencil2d.org/
Abdobe Photoshop: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Davinci Resolve: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
Music for the video: https://pixabay.com/bg/music/search/theme/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%20%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0/
Tags
#software #art #sun