Arthur Danskin

Anisoptera Games / Reassembly / Extrapolation. ☕☕☕C++SpaceDad

[Arthur Danskin @manylegged]

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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

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Now with lighting and companion stars

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

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

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.

[Arthur Danskin @manylegged]

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

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

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!

[Arthur Danskin @manylegged]

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

[ARCHIVED – NASA Astrobiology @NASAAstrobio]

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: https://t.co/VFdfQrS0kY

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Same view with the HUD spam enabled

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

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@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.

[Arthur Danskin @manylegged]

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...

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@masonremaley “Learning about 3d graphics”?

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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.

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

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

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@JakubTrad My upcoming game Extrapolation, see https://t.co/UQuBJnymTV

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

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