With just a few lines of code, you can render virtual star fields with the Persistence of Vision (POV) raytracer. Some time later, I discovered a scientific software package put online by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to allow astronomers to analyse celestial images away from the observatories.
It was a complex matter and at that time it was not yet possible to consult a large artificial language model (LLM). I contacted Dr Werner W. Zeilinger, an astrophysicist at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Vienna, explained my project to him and asked him for help in analysing my virtual star fields with the ESO software package. He took on the matter and I sent him a rendered star field. As a result, I received three histograms showing the brightness, ellipticity and brightness range of the ‘stars’ in my rendered virtual star field.
The possibility of analysing the virtual star field allows the consideration that the analysis of an observed, real star field and the analysis of a rendered, non-real star field do not differ. There can be two reasons for this: Either the analysis software is not ready for such requirements, or the rendered virtual star fields exist.
- C-print, various formats
- 2008
