speleo
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Comment · 5 months ago
Thank you so much for the blog post! I credited you in the about page, I used your charts as reference for the Astrophage infection graph view with the Petrova mode. I shared your blog with my friends, it was a great read.
Comment · 5 months ago
Thanks! On my desktop it takes around 20 minutes to generate a full sky render with 1.8 billion stars (down to around 22 magnitude).
Comment · 5 months ago
Hi there! This is Val, I made the star chart. There's a little "about" blurb you can open in a modal on the site, but I wanted to mention that this demo uses the amazing GAIA DR3 dataset from ESA. I have a Python script that renders all 1.8+ billion stars into custom images, which is what I used for the skybox. The star positions and colors all use the GAIA data (save for a few bright stars not in the set). The data is amazing, and if you have any interest in doing some fun projects with open data I recommend checking it out: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr3
Comment · 5 months ago
Thank you!
Comment · 5 months ago
You're welcome! I love that channel so much. Their videos and the blog post I link in the about section/citations on the starmap were inspirations for making this.
Comment · 2 years ago
The Planck length (and other units) are scale factors, not necessarily canonical quantizations of physics. Planck units represent a transition into a scale where the Standard Model, QFT, and other models no longer accurately predict behavior of the system.
Comment · 2 years ago
This was just remastered in 4K from the original footage and released by Cyan Worlds.