Inspiration
Brian Cox, he gave us an interest in cosmology and this led us to looking into ways we can incorporate hardware into our project while only producing software.
What it does
It maps the positions of satellites in the current epoch around a 3D earth
How I built it
Node.js to parse the TLE data and send that to the client, p5 WEBGL mode to draw.
Challenges I ran into
Object picking in 3D is really difficult.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Creating something at all
What I learned
That 3D graphics are a lot more complex than one might imagine.
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