Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.

Thursday, 3 November 2016

Spherical volumetric data in realtime


More experiments with all-sky HI data using frequency to set the radial distance. The realtime display in Blender gives a rather different appearance to the rendered views (see recent posts in this category) because faces are one-sided in the realtime view - so the opposite half of the spheres aren't visible. Gives a more interesting and subtle effect than the rendered view.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Giants in the deep

Here's a fun little paper  about hunting the gassiest galaxies in the Universe. I have to admit that FAST is delivering some very impres...