Thursday, 11 March 2010

IDAT 204 - AR Research into planets

In order to make an informational and accurate AR orrery I will need to know a whole range of information about the planets that will be included and manipulated.  The following is a range of research relating ot this topic:
There are 8 official planets but orreries also often include Pluto as it was classified as the 9th planet until its downgrading in 2006.


For my model I particularly need to know the information on the planets relating to distance from the sun, size, orbital path, time of single rotation, and time for a single orbit.  With this information I should be able to construct a relatively accurate model of the solar system.  I am therefore planning to use the majority of the data in this table below found at http://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/science/p_table.htm
 

However if I intend to make the solar system model in proportion to these values I will have to consider carefully how I intend to do this.  For example the distance to the Sun is valued in millions of km.  I will not be able to simulate this at the same proportion as the diameter which would be in km as I would have to model the planets too far away from each other.  I will therefore have to make the distance and diameter separate so that all the sizes are proportional to each other, and all the distances are proportional but the size and distance are not measured in the same proportions.
Now that I have these values I can begin to create the model that I wish to use for my augmented reality solar system.

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