Flat Earth

**salaam** · 05 January 2016, 06:09 PM

After a lot of research, I am going with this one.
This is a model of Earth with the sun and moon in circuit over the Equator.

**Acorn** · 05 January 2016, 06:40 PM

Ecliptic? Eclipses?
You'll need a big black blanket with holes rotating with the sun centred on the Pole; better a fixed sun distance though.
The trick would be achieving 6-month days at the Poles.

I think I'll stick with the blobby Earth.

Amusing nonetheless,
Acorn

**salaam** · 06 January 2016, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

Amusing nonetheless

This one will have you rolling:
Apparently, there are thousands of such delicate satellites above earth. With this, meteoroids travel through space at thousands of miles/ kilometres per hour, hitting our atmosphere on a daily basis. These clever satellites dodge each and everyone of them and they always look shiny clean, if you can believe the photographs.

**salaam** · 06 January 2016, 05:25 PM

More detail.
Background image is supposed to be a photo by Hubble. Strange how they can't do similar close-ups of the much nearer earth or the moon.

**Acorn** · 06 January 2016, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by salaam

More detail.
Background image is supposed to be a photo by Hubble. Strange how they can't do similar close-ups of the much nearer earth or the moon.

And your point is? How does this touch on X3D?

The Hubble is not designed to image near-Earth orbit objects.

Acorn

**ss-kalm** · 07 January 2016, 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by Acorn

And your point is? How does this touch on X3D? ...

I believe that the images that salaam is posting were ALL created in X3D

**salaam** · 07 January 2016, 03:09 PM

Wouldn't it be great to have a telescope satellite zooming in on earth. Maybe that would be harder to do than what Hubble is supposedly doing?
Apparently the sun is 93 million miles away from us even though the sun rays through the clouds make it seem very near. It's just a coincidence that it looks the same size as the moon.
This is a photo animated in X3D:

**salaam** · 07 January 2016, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by salaam

This one will have you rolling:
Apparently, there are thousands of such delicate satellites ......

Sorry, should have read 'hundreds'

**angelize** · 07 January 2016, 09:53 PM

cool animation Salaam good to see you back

Could we ask for a little bit of information as to how you created these images and animations? Was it all done in X3D or did Designer Pro play a roll? Inquiring minds would love to know!

**salaam** · 08 January 2016, 02:59 PM

Thanks Frances,
Here you go for now, the others later.
The Sun uses [Swing1] animation. It has 4 main parts (segments of the disc) which flap forward and backwards. Another part is the 'flares' which move more aggressively. Notice that the 4 segments each have a dot. This is so that all 4 shapes are the same size when pasted into X3D. The image texture of the sun is added in one go to all the 4 shapes together (with the cursor removed ie. no one shape is selected.)