Use Cases → General Visualization

Up to date for Platform 0.29.0.

Written by Connor Jakubik.

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General Visualization Use Case

Documentation WIP

Space Teams PRO provides real-scale, photometrically accurate rendering for anywhere in the solar system.

Immersive Solar System Exploration

In the Solar System Explorer demo, the user can interactively explore the full solar system in flat-screen or VR.

• Observe terrain, lighting, and atmosphere conditions
• Use Gadgets to do analysis work and pick out coordinates
  • Planet surface altitude color-shade contour and slope visualization gadget
• Use camera tools to plan photography in advance on Earth or wherever you are

Custom 3D Model Import & Material Configuration

• Import 3D Models and adjust material properties
• Create Visualization and marketing imagery, using our realistic camera settings interface
  • Concept Images
  • Mission Animations
• Experience interior and exterior spaces in VR in microgravity or walking, with realistic surroundings

Generic Rendering of Holographic Elements

Set up points, lines, splines, solids, and other 3D visualization techniques. Useful for things such as prox ops keep-out zones, conjunction analysis, visualizing trajectories and paths, etc.

Scene Setup

Interactively choose surface or orbital locations, add entities, tweak placement and attachment, and place controllable "pawns".

Physics-based Orbital Propagation

Set up entities to use orbital propagation with N-body gravitation.

Telemetry

Set up entities to read their state from telemetry from a number of sources:

• NAIF SPICE Ephemerides
• CSV of state values
• (Other data standards WIP)

Scientific Visualization

Create visualizations of scientific phenomena, using our sim setup tools to set initial conditions and entity properties, and using our analysis tools to display numbers or access 2D/3D visualizations.

Some examples:

• Trajectory visualization in multiple reference frames
• Practical experiments to illustrate foundational concepts
  • Orbital mechanics with multiple bodies
  • Free-body diagram rendering of vehicles in various flight scenarios

Demo Experiences

Run the included Demos to experience realistic spaceflight scenarios.

• Space Teams PRO provides real-scale, photometrically accurate rendering for anywhere in the solar system.
• General Viz specific use cases:
  • Solar System Explorer: use flat screen or VR to go anywhere in the solar system at any time
    • Observe terrain, lighting, and atmosphere conditions
    • Use Gadgets to do analysis work and pick out coordinates
      • Planet surface altitude color-shade contour and slope visualization gadget
    • Use camera tools to plan photography in advance on Earth or wherever you are
  • Import 3D model and put it somewhere
    • Visualization and marketing imagery, using our realistic camera settings interface
    • Extremely high realism mission CONOPS animations, using our (WIP) camera spline tools
  • Astrophotography, including satellites
    • Already have accurate star and planet rendering
    • Can set up FarRender properties for any additional object (such as the ISS) and visualize complicated tracking shots, especially for conjunctions
  • (WIP) Set up points, lines, splines, solids, and other 3D visualization techniques
    • Useful for things such as prox ops keep-out zones, conjunction analysis, visualizing trajectories and paths, etc
  • Set up entity with physics propagation or to follow telemetry, and watch what happens
  • Create STEM activities with experiential space exploration
    • Activities and lessons that take advantage of the immersive and interactive multiuser environment
  • Try out core Space Teams demos