Visualizing Millions of Asteroids

A web-based 3D visualizer of asteroid positions using the Minor Planet Center’s data. Built in threeJS with a python sqlite database to serve asteroid data. Created in collaboration with Eamon Ito-Fisher.

Current features include:

• Visualization of hundreds of thousands of asteroids’ positions
• Visualization of asteroids based on the survey they were discovered in
• Highlighting of individual asteroids to show survey metadata

This is still a work in progress, but I plan to host a demo somewhere soon. Stay tuned for more details, and in the meantime check out the code on GitHub or page through the slides below to learn how we built it!

Lastly…here’s a few of obligatory demo screenshots. I love bloom FX!