Gaia Sky, cool 3D universe simulation
Posted: 19 Aug 2018, 17:10Call it edutainment if you like, but this project is pretty cool. It even supports VR on Linux.
See:
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/de/instit ... s/gaiasky/
Source-code:
https://gitlab.com/langurmonkey/gaiasky
Edit: someone should develop a generation ship management simulator on top of that... all Hard SF style
Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation software that runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).
See:
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/de/instit ... s/gaiasky/
Source-code:
https://gitlab.com/langurmonkey/gaiasky
Edit: someone should develop a generation ship management simulator on top of that... all Hard SF style