Lesson 9 - Viz for the web with Sketchfab

NOTE: BRING PHONE + PHONE CHARGER TOMORROW

Today we’ll think about how to share 3D interactive movies on the web.

Make sure you download:

1. The Planet Files - shapes and surfaces and save them to a specific directory. This includes the library needed to make geometry files from your simulations.
2. You’ll want to also download Meshlab for testing purposes.

Also: Sign up for your Sketchfab Account

Don’t forget to sign up right here to be able to upload models.

If you want to use VR today tomorrow:

• Check out the google cardboard instructions on Sketchfab and also learn about how to navigate around your scene.

More Resources

For planet models:

• Think your planet looks different than one of the ones you downloaded? Check out whats available on google image search.
• If you want to change the colors of a planet texture or modify it in any way for any reason you can check out this notebook with some simple examples, also listed in the Materials section.

For galaxy models:

• Check out this notebook to generate a PLY file to upload to Sketchfab, also listed in the Materials section.
• If you want try this out but don’t want to spend the time to run the models you can download some saved files from a simulation right here that includes dark matter and star particles. Make sure you unzip!
• Also download this Python library here to be able to read in this dataset.

Bonus: Try with this larger dataset with many different particle types. Again, parsing this harder dataset is left up to you!

Materials

• Lecture 9 - Designing For the Web: (view, source, present)
• Notebook extraNotebook_changingTextureColors_lesson09: (view, download)
• Notebook extraNotebook_exportingGalaxyData_lesson09: (view, download)
• Notebook inClass_lesson09: (view, download)