I am making hearts... (well, a heart, to start with! 8-)
I suppose I need to get back falling leaves before it's falling snow?
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
Weirdness...
Splat out some points to the surface of a sphere. The next step is to make triangles!
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Does it work?
Making Leaves!
I am splatting out a triangle and pushing out leaf points.
Barnards' Flying Star Planetary System
I've made an animation of Emerson and Rhoda (click to see), and a near star map (here).
Five (actually, six) planets. Barnards' Star is a 'red' dwarf, but it would actually seem yellow to our eyes, so I used yellow... None of these worlds is 'm class', but the double planet Emerson and Rhoda are super earths with deep oceans under ice. Emerson masses 2.056 Earths and Rhoda masses 1.174 Earths. They’re sort of ice midgets, super Earths with a lot of water and less dense than you might expect, but Emerson has much more water than Rhoda. I think that they are leftovers from a late collision which happened only a few billion years ago when two earlier planets blundered into each other and splashed a lot of mass into orbit around what was left of the previous version of Emerson, so they are in fairly close orbit, a little closer than the Moon to Earth, but of course with three times the mass of Earth they orbit faster, just under a week, about sixty times per local year and each planet’s day has slowed down to that.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Story Update
Nothing to report, actually. I've just been working on a planetary system for Barnards' Star, which has one known planet, Barnards' Star 'b', where 'a' is the first object, the star. I have some limits based on what the wiki tells me from scientific papers and some names from the astronomers' personal life. B might be Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnie or Ed, but probably Emerson.
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