Lesson 9 - Sci Viz vs. Info viz, Movies - 2D & 3D, Publish your viz (optional)

Resources

Online 3D viewers

• creators3d.com

Kepler Planets info

• Exoplanet Archive - see “Data –> Confirmed Planets” option (hover over “Data”)
• Exoplanet orbit database (deprecated, but with plots)
• astroquery API

Planet viz

• Super Planet Crash Game

Python Library downloads

• Hermite Sims Library (hermite_library.py)
• Conversions Library (convert_kepler_data.py)
• Animations Library (animations_library.py)
• Little color flipping Library (flip_colors.py)

Data Downloads

• We’ll be using this NASA planet database CSV file (planets_2020.06.22_10.10.17.csv) today.
• And this set of simulated orbits (data.zip, 81M) today.

Reading

1. FDV, Ch. 13: Visualizing time series
2. Optional: yt project; ipyvolume docs
3. Optional: info about GitHub pages (video on page)

Materials

• Optional - Deploying to the Web!: (view, source, present)
• Optional - Ways to share your viz: (view, source, present)
• Lecture 9, Part 1: (view, source, present)
• Lecture 9, Part 2: (view, source, present)
• Notebook extra_notebook_generate_sims: (view, download)
• Notebook inClass_lesson09: (view, download)
• Notebook prep_notebook_lesson09: (view, download)