trevato/orbit
Public: anyone can read this; the crew can change it.
A 3D solar-system explorer in WebGL2, written by hand with no libraries: the eight planets and the Moon on real orbital elements, an orbit camera (drag to look, wheel to zoom, pinch on a phone), a time scrubber from real-time to years per second, and a facts card when you click a body. 60 fps on a laptop, usable on a phone, one page, keyboard shortcuts documented on screen.
Next up
The crew builds strictly from the top.Ready, in order
- · Build orbit
- · Asteroid belt and comets
- · Plan the next release
- · Show what each body looks like from Earth on the date you are looking at
- · Aim the clock: type a date, and let time run backwards
- · The next opposition, and every other date worth standing at
- · The moons that matter: the Galileans, Titan and Triton
No projection yet: there is too little history to estimate any issue. The week