Comments on: solar system

solar system

crunchland — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:16:35 -0800

solar system [note: requires anark plugin]

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:20:22 -0800

Too bad there isn't an anark plugin for Linux...

By: majick

majick — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:22:29 -0800

Too bad there isn't an anark plugin for anything that isn't IE.

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:51:14 -0800

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:54:25 -0800

Pretty, but needs work. The west coast of Alaska is a mirror image of the east coast of Russia. Venus lacks an atmosphere. Distant stars are brighter when seen through Saturn's rings. I had some trouble navigating.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 07:06:08 -0800

I suspect this solar system app was made by artists and programmers and not astronomers, as a demonstration of the anark multimedia programming tool.

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:35:03 -0800

But most MeFites have that plug-in... Oh, 'anark'? I thought it was 'snark'. Nevermind.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:18:13 -0800

Majick, are you sure about that? Mac OS X 10.3.1, Safari 1.1 here, and Anark installed quite easily. /applefilter

By: moonbiter

moonbiter — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:31:45 -0800

The what plugin?

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:31:22 -0800

The plugin that crashes your computer if you try it from work, apparently. DOH!

By: Eamon

Eamon — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:08:29 -0800

Whoa, 3D graphics on the web? What a novel, original idea!

By: crunchland

crunchland — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:59:23 -0800

I remember vrml. it never looked like this.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:21:05 -0800

Very refreshing for the spatially challenged like me - thanks, crunchie. P.S. Safari OS X 10.2 here; easy install.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:45:20 -0800

I remember that day, all those years ago, when my father told me that his one great accomplishment was writing a subroutine in the VRML standard library. He also told me that the fall of the Berlin Wall was likely going to be the most significant historical event I would be alive for, so I suppose he could have been wrong on that one, too.

By: spazzm

spazzm — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:29:42 -0800

Too bad the auto-install page rendered as a huge page of chinese characters.