Lesson 10 - 3D graphics concepts, Online interactive 3D geometry with Sketchfab

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Resources

Kepler Planets info

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

Python Library downloads

• Hermite Sims Library (hermite_library.py)
• Conversions Library (convert_kepler_data.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,
• And this this set of generic planet 3D model files (genericPlanetFiles.zip, 3.9M) today.

Reading

1. This short Pixar explaination of rendering
2. Info about the Sketchfab platform

Where to go from here

Other Dataviz Courses/Resources

• IS590DV, iSchool, UIUC
• Idyll - Markdown to HTML pages
• Iodide - online notebooks (not all Python libraries supported at the moment)

Programming Resources

• Datacamp - Python
• Software Carpentry’s Python Lesson
• Software Carpentry’s Python Plotting Lesson

More advanced programming

• Google’s Crash Course in Machine Learning (in Python)
  • Check out the prerequisites first

Materials

• Lecture 10 - Finishing up our viz, and Future Work: (view, source, present)
• Notebook inClass_lesson10_finalClass: (view, download)
• Notebook prep_notebook_lesson10: (view, download)