Arthur Danskin

@manylegged@mastodon.gamedev.place

Clouds based on outgoing longwave radiation data from NASA (sped up greatly). Data is low resolution so I added noise to break it up, hard to capture the varied look of the real thing

Now with lighting and companion stars

Here is my first pass at Proxima b, the closest known exoplanet. Not shown: the other two stars at Alpha Centauri

Zodiacal Light at orbital sunrise. This reel shows a sunrise from @ISS where the interplanetary dust in our solar system is seen as the zodiacal cloud.

@lorenschmidt What you want is a tone-mapping operator. Reinhard 1-(1/(1+x)) is a classic. Another simple one is 1-exp(-x)

hmm, what's a function which takes any positive value, and remaps it to 0-1, with outputs asymptotically approaching 1 as inputs approach infinity?

Star trail photograph from my previous mission to the @iss. This is a 28 minute time exposure composed of individual 30 second shots taken during orbital night. I call it "Purple Haze." #astrophotography can bring out the color in the universe like little else!

I really don’t care about the queen or whatever but when Sir David Attenborough dies I’m taking the day off and crying

Curious about @NASAWebb’s mission to #UnfoldTheUniverse? Interested in how it will study distant worlds? Join former Webb Project Scientist Dr. Alex Lockwood on our next episode of #AskAstrobio! Set a reminder to watch & ask questions – Aug. 25 at 2pm ET: go.nasa.gov/3CwHsBz

Same view with the HUD spam enabled

Some power satellites in mars orbit. Working on an interface for moving the camera around in orbit.

@masonremaley It did cause a 100% crash if you played the game for too long. I probably could have gotten away with ignoring leap days.

@manylegged I love how this sounds like yak shaving until I remember what game you’re working on

I ended up re-implementing gmtime (and mktime) because Microsoft's implementation starts failing around 1000 years into the future. There are more corner cases than I would have expected, but on the upside I now know everything about the Gregorian calendar...

@masonremaley “Learning about 3d graphics”?

First person to guess what I'm doing based solely on this screenshot of someone else's 3d model wins a virtual cookie

Working on orbital rings and space elevators. The power satellites around Titan are all sending each other power which is not really ideal but looks neat.

@slembcke Yeah. Here is one in Antarctica. Probably one on an oil rig somewhere but I couldn't find a good picture.

Love the porta potties on the back of this tunnel boring machine.

@JakubTrad My upcoming game Extrapolation, see anisopteragames.com/announcing-ext…

@manylegged What is the image from?

A space elevator on Mars would have to dodge Phobos AND Deimos, but we aren't going to worry about that for now...

@promit_roy Only 5 million flights to the top! Should only take 2 months if you run the whole way without sleeping.