NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
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Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#2It would have been cool if they'd release the 3d model, and then it could be put in some sort of an interactive demo.
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#3Fascinating stuff. There nice trajectory animations on wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx
From wikipedia:
> Such asteroids are considered "primitive", having undergone little geological change from their time of formation. In particular, Bennu was selected because of the availability of pristine carbonaceous material, a key element in organic molecules necessary for life as well as representative of matter from before the formation of Earth. Organic molecules, such as amino acids, have previously been found in meteorite and comet samples, indicating that some ingredients necessary for life can be naturally synthesized in outer space.
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#4Odd this won any kind of award. The nonsense mythology made it one of NASA's worst videos of late in my opinion, but I guess that appeals to the non-science type unfortunately.
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#5Odd this won any kind of award. The nonsense mythology made it one of NASA's worst videos of late in my opinion, but I guess that appeals to the non-science type unfortunately.
If you don't like things named after mythology, then space is perhaps not the place for you.
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#6Odd this won any kind of award. The nonsense mythology made it one of NASA's worst videos of late in my opinion, but I guess that appeals to the non-science type unfortunately.
I don't know if I would call the SIGGRAPH audience the non-science type :D
Also this is not an award but a showcase of short videos which are in some measure remarkable from the computer graphics or art perspective.
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#7It would have been cool if they'd release the 3d model, and then it could be put in some sort of an interactive demo.
Procedural generation of realistic looking asteroids would make a nice graphics challenge. Lots of collisions in deep space, so you get those alien geometries with plenty of concavities ;)
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#8I love the style of the video combined with the narrative. Bennu is small and the narrator talks mainly about the mythological background of the names the scientist chose. This makes sense, but also indicates some lack of noteworthy things to mention about Bennu directly. Maybe it is due to the much bigger size of our moon, that the according video from NASA contains much more "actual" information about the object: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822289
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#9Odd this won any kind of award. The nonsense mythology made it one of NASA's worst videos of late in my opinion, but I guess that appeals to the non-science type unfortunately.
If you don't like things named after mythology, then space is perhaps not the place for you.
Good luck trying to leave it... ;-)
Re: NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival
#10It would have been cool if they'd release the 3d model, and then it could be put in some sort of an interactive demo.
they have released various 3d models at different resolutions, although I am not aware of a web based interactive version.
see: https://www.asteroidmission.org/updated-bennu-shape-model-3d... and
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2632-3338/page/Shape_Mode...
with data hosted by the PDS at:
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/pds/pds4/orex/orex_spice/...