SUN
MERCURY
VENUS
EARTH
MOON
MARS
JUPITER
SATURN
URANUS
NEPTUNE
PLUTO
CLICK ON A CELESTIAL BODY ● LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO MOVE
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A simple way to compare the sizes of our solar system's planets, the sun and the moon.
You can compare them side by side or with the smaller object positioned on the surface of the larger one.
Press the
left
button and move the mouse to rotate
After you have selected two objects, double click the
left
button anywhere on the larger one and the smaller one will be positioned at that location
Get better texture maps of the surface - especially Pluto!
Investigate using shaders to make the planets more realistic - e.g. the Sun
Probably much, much more I haven't thought of yet
NASA data and image sites - many different ones but try
here
first
Some of the planet texture maps come from
JHT's Planetary Pixel Emporium
three.js
- a very nice WebGL library
Innumerable JavaScript snippets from around the Web - thank you one and all
Chris Granger
on Hacker News for some great feedback
Visit my page at
http://callum.com
to see other examples of my work and contact information
The source code for this project is
available
along with source for everything else I've made
here
Advice, suggestions, bug reports much appreciated
