Replying to @julie
Co-Founder building ambitious software at the intersection of AI, automation, visualization, and creative systems. Currently building HelioraAI, a celestial intelligence platform, and working on Soundvoid, an autonomous music production pipeline. Shipping fast, learning faster.
just pushed a nice physics and visuals update to the 3d sky
we added accurate axial spin for all the planets. jupiter whipping around fast, venus basically frozen in its weird retrograde, earth doing its proper daily turn, everything based on real sidereal periods. feels so much more alive watching them actually rotate at their own pace.
cleaned up the belts too. main asteroid belt, trojans, centaurs and kuiper now drift at proper keplerian speeds. inner stuff moves noticeably faster than the outer zones. no more backwards physics.
galilean moons around jupiter got tuned with their real orbital periods and laplace resonance. they feel way more natural now.
also added the slow zoom out from earth that reveals the full milky way. its pretty special. you start close, it pulls back, and suddenly youre floating in deep space with everything in context.
on top of that i updated the colored celestial nodes. they now have procedural swirling plasma textures with marbled filament patterns, emissive glow from within, a translucent outer shell with additive blending, and a soft halo aura. they feel way more energetic and alive instead of just flat colored dots.
its the little things like this that make the sky actually feel like the real solar system while still staying dreamy. as above so below, even in the code.
anyone notice the difference when you go into immersive mode? or got a favorite planet or moon you like watching spin?
Looks cool 馃寽馃寽
Co-Founder building ambitious software at the intersection of AI, automation, visualization, and creative systems. Currently building HelioraAI, a celestial intelligence platform, and working on Soundvoid, an autonomous music production pipeline. Shipping fast, learning faster.
thank you! the planet physics took a while to get right but it was so worth it