typpo/showers

Rendering of debris clouds in the solar system that cause meteor showers.

meteor-showers

This project renders debris clouds in the solar system. When the Earth passes through a cloud, we experience a meteor shower!

About

The project is online at: https://www.meteorshowers.org/. It uses data from NASA CAMS, and was built with feedback from project leader Peter Jenniskens.

This is a modified version of Asterank's 3D code, which is another project of mine.

Installation & Usage

npm install or yarn install to install dependencies.

Run node showers.js to start the app on port 8988 (http://localhost:8988/)

A very rudimentary JS bundle is used to prepare the app for production. Running ./build.sh will generate a new bundle file. Add this file to git and update the bundle in index.html.

License

Copyright 2017 Ian Webster - MIT License

showers's Issues

Add visual calendar to show when the next showers are coming up

Don't run iframed simulation unless in viewport

This will make sites that embed meteorshowers.org work better.

IAU hashes are not being read correctly

For example, http://www.ianww.com/meteor-showers/#iau-13 does not load shower #13.

Pass view info directly to /view/:shower page

Right now data is loaded asynchronously, which is bad for slow connections and search bots.

Tooltips when you mouseover an orbit.

Improve modularity of 3D rendering code

Currently everything is lumped together: UI, rendering, data loading, etc. These should be split out so that more people can use and modify the code.

Make default background black

This prevents ugly white while it's loading.

Back button is broken

There's no listener for window hash changes, so when you step back through history after loading a few showers, nothing changes.

Repro:

1. Switch between 3 showers
2. Press back

Expected: view changes to previous shower
Actual: no change

Auto zoom based on meteor shower perihelion

Add webgl failure message

Consolidated TODO

• When people start moving on watch from Earth, need to change 'look At' back to 0,0,0
• Possibly an instructions overlay (for nsf=1 peeps)
• Register domain?
• Encode camera view in URL

Done

• Tooltip for the 2nd inactive date thing
• Don't duplicate the shower in the 'all' view
• Hotlink to the 'all' view
• Fix bugs with all view
• Make select box default to hash selection
• More showers?
• Add G+ icon?
• Add license
• General code cleanup and refactoring
• Fix modal opacity/zindex
• mobile sizing

Fix comet orbits and make them visible again

Add real meteor data from CAMS

See http://cams.seti.org/ > CAMS California db

Update controls

Display date 2/12/2012
Time Lapse [ 0 ---- 30] days - where the number indicates how much days you jump in each step
Meteoroid speed [0 ---- 30] X - where the number indicates the acceleration factor in time for the meteoroids
Display

• orbits
• milky way

Add more meteor showers

"Learn more"/FAQ section

Lazy load cloud data