![]() ![]() Rendering the space probe will entail two basic ingredients:ġ) A model for the space probe itself, with a reflective material Ģ) A high-resolution, 360-degree stellar background, which is the environment for the probe to reflect. ![]() I’ll share the source files at the end of the post. I only use freely available software (Blender, Python) and assets (a star map from ESA). In this post I’ll describe the way I create images of the probe. Its surface appears to be perfectly reflective at all wavelengths. The vessel I am referring to is the Trisolaran probe or `droplet’, which is described as a teardrop-shaped craft, about 3.5 meters long, made of a type of exotic matter called ‘strong-interaction material’. I highly recommend this trilogy, and will try to avoid spoilers as much as possible! The second book of the series, The Dark Forest, contained an alien spacecraft that I immediately wanted to visualize. A friend recently recommend Liu Cixin’s amazing Three-Body trilogy to me, and I am almost done reading the third book. ![]()
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