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1 year ago
Hi all, I want to share a tile engine I made in processing. The idea is to fly through the COSMOS survey, a 3D map of the deep Universe containing approx 1/4 million galaxies in a region of the sky roughly the size of the moon.
The tiling engine streams images as the camera moves through the survey in the "redshift" direction (away from the observer). I am doing sort of mipmapping by hand because it was easier for me to control when to switch resolution and stream new data.
The engine is quite fast, it can seamlessly fly through the entire survey in realtime. The animation in the link below is a screencast, the most time-consuming part was saving images to disk!
Miguel.
