Thursday, February 14, 2013

M51: Dust + Stars

Beginning to combine the dust and star sets.  Upon further discussion Dr. Summers and I have decided to use screen mode in rendering the stars, which should remove the dark edge in the side view.  I've also written an addRadius program which adds a radius attribute to a pda file.  For the stars, its a roughly constant value, and a more random set of radius values for the dust, which is larger in scale.  Here are some tests.

All radii = 0.05, Stars: 5Million, Dust: 500K
Dust radii= 0.1 - 0.3, Stars: 3.3M, Dust: 1.1M
Dust radii = 0.1 - 0.3, Stars: 3.3M, Dust: 500K
Alpha = alpha*alpha
Dust radii= 0.05 - 0.15, Stars: 3.3M, Dust: 1.1M


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