Solar System Simulator Armin Haghi & Kyle Burney
Achieved: Real simulation of planets.
So far…
Viewable at http://students.washington.edu/arminh/ You can zoom in and out using mouse scroll. Best viewed in full screen and no zoom.
Technical challenges: Understanding textures and their transform. Finding ways to have a good user experience. Calculations and MATH! Resizing the canvas to fit your browsers size.
Future work: Support for multiple views Adding moon. Enabling user manipulation for manual rotation, size, and speed changes.
Questions? Thoughts?