Oolite Bulletins

ddeo wrote:

Hi, if you think about improving close rendering then maybe it would be possible to render lots of 2d sprites when player is nearby a ring

Also I haven't noticed it yet, but would it be good to have different sizes and different colors of the rings for different systems?

cbr wrote:

Perhaps this was meant by colored rings

gsagostinho wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:04 pm

cbr wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2017 10:48 pm

Perhaps you could insert some orbiting rocks/asteroids moving in some of the lanes too...

I actually wanted to do something like that as that would be nice, but the problem is that in order to have a nice effect I think we would need to add a lot of orbiting rocks. It might also be difficult to match their position to the rings, as the shader is what decides their size (as far as Oolite is concerned, the object behind the rings is simply a single gigantic plane cutting the planet in two).

Besides which, the physics of how rings form and are maintained is still unsettled and ferociously complex. If you're interested, there's an entire book on the subject - a thousand pages or so - on Arxiv, which describes the "bleeding edge", and people are still arguing over whether the rings of Saturn are primordial (formed early in the history of the Solar System) or a mere few hundred million years old. In the latter case, would the rings of Uranus and of Jupiter represent older ring systems, decaying away. And in all three cases, what then is (are) the origination and decay mechanisms?

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:56 am

Besides which, the physics of how rings form and are maintained is still unsettled and ferociously complex.

We fit the $\eta$ ring radius residuals and longitudes from a complete set of both ground-based and Voyager stellar and radio occultations of
the Uranian rings spanning 1977-2002. We find variations in the radial position of the $\eta$ ring that are likely generated by this resonance, and take the form of a 3-lobed structure rotating at an angular rate equal to the mean motion of the moon Cressida. ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07566 )

ddeo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2017 6:13 am

Hi, if you think about improving close rendering then maybe it would be possible to render lots of 2d sprites when player is nearby a ring, similar like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PswaDopdRw

gsagostinho wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:21 pm

@RockDoctor Absolutely brilliant comic As for the article, I will take a look at it, looks interesting

Astrobe wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2017 12:25 pm

the right thing to do would be to increase the density of the space dust near and in the ring system.

cbr wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:23 pm

Colors?
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Perhaps this was meant by colored rings

As the light from the star passes though the ring material, then the longest wavelength will be scattered first

cbr wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:42 pm

As the light from the star passes though the ring material, then the longest wavelength will be scattered first

maybe debris of different elements ( different density ) and thus different colours is forming rings of different radii?
maybe not with a monochromatic light source.

Rings of tiny little drops of water/liquid forming rainbows in space