S106 & Stars

I wrote a short python script to extract the position of the stars in the original maya file. Dr. Summers will be providing me with the brightness values for the stars shortly, which will increase the realism. For now, I created white, opaque splats at all the positions. In order to nest the nebula within the star field, I took the total nebula set (~5M particles) and made them black. This way the stars can be rendered in a separate layer and composited in using a simple add function. Right now the falloff isn't being calculated correctly, but it does give the idea of what it might look like later.



S106 Close Up w/ Pseudo-Stars from Kendall Litaker on Vimeo.