1. I think we hugged your university site to death, lol.
2. When it finally loaded, I saw this: "Prerequisites: Programming 101" given this work, that's pretty hilarious! You at the very least used a Data Structure or two, which is Programming 201...
3. Am I correct in understanding the implicit approach is "look, the blue ones are all bunched up and the red ones aren't, so galaxies aren't randomly distributed"?
4. Any takeaways in terms of things you'd like to add, similar ideas that occurred to you, or other cool stuff? You seem like a creative soul and I love dreaming up Three.js-driven space simulations like https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization, so I'd enjoy hearing any thoughts you might have :).
Regarding point 3: You are correct! the galaxies are in fact clustered together in space. These groups are called gravitationally bound clusters.
Best regards,
Victor
cp -i src/* includes/* .
g++ frontend.cpp -lraylib
./a.out
Thank you!
I added a variation of your good solution to the main branch.
https://github.com/Avicted/galaxy_visualization_raylib/blob/...
Would definitely be cooler in 3D, of course, I agree with that. Out of curiousity, do you know of any systems that do that? All I can find is multipurpose industry tools like https://www.openspaceproject.com/images and broken tools like https://spacein3d.com/universe-sandbox/.
It would be fairly straightforward to add your random galaxy dataset as an asset as it would only require some light Lua coding and a CSV file with positions + any additional variables
Thank you for the criticism! My input data only contains celestial coordinates: - Right ascension in arcminutes - Declination in arcminutes
I can perhaps try to get some redshift data and implement the 3D position for each galaxy. Great idea! Thank you!
Andromeda we have pretty-well established at 0.78 MPc, and M32 at 0.77 MPc.
NGC 7768 at 120 MPc.
Whereas the largest galaxy we currently know of, ESO 383-G 076, is at 200.59 ± 14.12 MPc. That gives a variability in distance far larger than the distance to most of our nearby closest galaxies!