bpsci

High level abstraction of Python scripting in Blender that can create six degree of freedom technical animations

View the documentation here

Model Attribution - Snowfall

This software was presented at the International Astronautical Congress 2022 in Paris, France.

This is currently a work in progress. Documentation and instructions may be incomplete and new features useful for scientific visualizations are actively being developed!

Objectives of bpsci

bpsci aims to provide a six degree of freedom simulation backbone to visualize an object's displacement in three dimensions, as well as the three orientation angles, given that the time series data for each degree of freedom has already been simulated. Future functionality with additional scientifically useful visualizations will most likely be added as well.

Why do I need this library?

Graphs are nice, but can often not provide the same level of intuition as a full visualization in 3D space. For example, it is much easier to understand Euler Angles/orientation in 3D space in an interactive 3D space, rather than a technical drawing projected on to a 2D paper. Technical visualizations build intution in a more physical understanding of an object's dynamics.

As an example, visualizing an orbit in three dimensions with respect to time inherently bestows intuition about the velocity magnitude of a spacecraft as a function of its true anomaly, in a way that a graph of the path of the orbits cannot.

Getting Started

Please see the GitHub Pages