Tour Through the Universe Flight Path

compiled by Phillip Dukes

Download the Tour Through the Universe Flight Path with Partiview and related data files
 

A flight path through the Slone Digital Sky Survey dataset for Partiview distributed by the Cosmus Project.

PC Instructions: Click on sdss3.bat to start the program on a regular single screen, or on sdss3_geowall.bat to start the program on a GeoWall system. You can control which objects turn on at startup by editing the .cf files; at present all objects are turned on.

Linux Instructions: make sure the CSH files are executable ("chmod +x blah.csh") then type "./blah.csh" from the Linux prompt where the Windows instructions say "click on blah.bat".

Navigation Instructions

The trick to navigation is to press a mouse button down, move the mouse, and release the mouse button. Navigation is inertia-based, so whatever you were doing when the mouse button is released continue to happens.

• Rotation : left click & hold.
• Zooming: Right click (and hold!) the mouse and move up and down. (If you have a Mac with a one-button mouse, press the option key as you click that button.)
• Stopping motion: click once with the mouse. Don't move the mouse while the mouse button is down.
• Quit: press escape.

Press buttons to turn background stars and constellations off and on.

Pre-Programmed Flight Path
 

A flight path is included and pre-loaded, you can change the flight path by editing the .cf file.