Universe Sandbox
General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: Arata on January 19, 2010, 07:38:04 PM
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Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial on how to make a universe zoom video?
What I mean is that it will show the earth, zoom out to the solar system, and zoom out enough to show the galaxy itself.
Here's an example of what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYyHTmF0vjY
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If you have enough spare time, you could make a picture in Paint for example (of a few stars, or a planet), then you save it and make a new one which you resize to for example 95% (depending on the fps you want) of the size of the previous one, and so on.
It would take a lot of time though, but otherwise I would guess you could use something like Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/). Or Universe Sandbox, it could probably do it aswell. Just start close to the place you want to zoom out from, and make a movie.
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Yeah but that would be just a bunch of photos.
I want an animation where I show everything, from earth, to some of the planets in the solar system, then the entire galaxy. Something like the video.
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But you can put the pictures together to a video, in Windows Movie Maker for example.
The video is made by professional people. It was a part of a movie I watched in the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, which has one of the largest (if not the largest) film canvases in the world.
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You could learn how to model it in a computer graphic program and render it...
A free one is Blender. There are lots of guides online.
However, if you want to do a good video, it could takes a lot of time to learn it (weeks?)
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Here another nice video i found
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/