Flying thru Hipparcos Tycho Catalog - Astronomy

(2007) This is a real-time 3D fly-through of the 2,533,774 stars of the Hipparcos and Tycho stellar catalogs. A GPU-based renderer computes the apparent magnitude of each star from any point in 3D space and displays each with a gaussian distribution colored by spectral type. Implemented using the Electro framework, this application runs across a cluster of 29 Linux PCs driving the 55 LCDs of the 105 million-pixel LambdaVision at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL). The flight begins by circling the Hyades cluster and proceeds toward the center of the galaxy before turning to pass by the Sun. The mesh of blue lines indicates the true 3D shape of the 88 constellations. More information can be found on the EVL website -- http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=296 http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=273