The Nature of Code: Cosmos Edition

A "syllabus" and repository of Processing examples for ITP fall workshop about planetariums and space visualization.

Day 1, Saturday, October 26, 10-5

10:00 AM - Overview

Planetariums and Dome Projection

• Real-time Digital Dome Rendering
• Processing Dome Projection Library
  • Github Repo
  • Library Documentation
  • Blog post about library
  • To install the library, go to Processing's Library Contribution Manager.
• Dave Pentecost and the LES Girls Club
• Carter Emmart Applications Talk
• Arts Lab Dome Resources
• After Effects Dome Camera Rig
• Unity Dome Projection from Paul Bourke
• DomeFest Videos

It looks like space, kind of

• Stars
  • Robert Hodgin's Cinder Star
  • Making of 100,000 Stars (WebGL)]
  • 100 Year Starship Screensaver
  • StarNest Shader
  • Processing Star Examples
• Planets
  • How to make Planets in WebGL
  • Creating normal maps from NASA depth data, Source
  • Database of JPL/Caltech generated planetary maps
  • Paul Bourke texturing with spheres
  • Paul Bourke spherical 3D perlin texture
  • Planet Pixel Emporium
  • Planet Examples in Processing
• 3D Models
  • NASA models
  • Processing Demos (OBJ only)

Actual Science

• Kepler Mission Data
  • Exoplanet Data Explorer
  • NASA Kepler Site
  • NASA Kepler Data Archive, Data Retrieval Instructions, Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
  • NASA Kepler Planet Candidate Data Explorer
  • Kepler's Tally of Planets by Jonathan Corum, NYTimes
  • Jer Thorp's Kepler Visualization
  • Extrasolar planets on Wikipedia
  • Processing Sample Exoplanets Viz
• Star Data
  • HYGDatabase
    • The HYG Database is a compilation of stars found in three major databases: the Hipparcos Catalog, the Yale Bright Star Catalog, and the Gliese Catalog of Nearby Stars.
    • Get data from github repo.
    • Processing HYG Database Examples
  • Chrome Experiment 100,000 Stars, Making of 100,000 Stars
  • Robert Hodgin's 100 Year Starship Screensaver
  • Right Ascension, Declination, Light Year
  • More star data at Sol Station
• NBody Simulation
  • Wikipedia Page
  • Super Computer NBody Simulations!
  • How do galaxies form?
  • NBody Processing Examples

Images from Space

• ISS Space Station Photos
  • Dataset for all photos
  • ISS Crew Earth Observation Photos from NASA
  • Time-Lapse Earth from ISS
  • Processing examples for getting ISS photo data
• Nasa "Multimedia" HD
• Nasa Earth Observatory
• ALMA telescope: star birth

Other sources for space data

• AMNH Digital Universe
• Partiview, Partiview Planets
• active space missions traveling beyond Earth orbit
• Ardusat
• Black Hole Gas Cloud

12:00 PM - Lunch

1:00 PM - Make visual experiments

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Look at experiments in Dome

• Guidelines and links to project documentation can be found here

Day 2, Friday, Nov 1st, 3:30-6

Project Presentations