High-Level Project Summary
We have developed a web interface for generating the light-curves of various three-dimensional shapes including existing asteroids, comets and other objects using Threejs and Blender. After choosing the rotation axis, angle of the sun and speed of rotation of the asteroid, the user can then generate its corresponding light curve sending a request to a headless Blender instance. Our project provides users an accessible interface to find light curves for a various number of objects, and allows them to upload their own. This is important as it can be used to better understand the asteroids that will be observed when the Lucy spacecraft arrives at the Trojan asteroids in years to come.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
3-D Game with:
- Solar System.
- Telescope correctly positioned.
- On-demand information display of components functionality.
Space Agency Data
3-D parts of the James Webb telescope provided by NASA.
Hackathon Journey
We had an amazing time completing the SpaceApps challenge this year. All of us approached the problem with no experience with 3D modelling at all, and we all discovered the joy in it while coding up something for a very important project! While we all worked on different parts, it was really satisfying reaching the end when we finally got our platform to produce fantastic results. We have learned a lot both about 3D modelling but also about working in a team and producing high quality code in a short length of time!
References
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/4194-Image
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/jwst
Tags
#game #unity