Rendezvous with R #17

The strange cylindrical object flown through the solar system, leaving us full of questions. Maybe some visualitions of its orbital elements will help us understand what was going on.

Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series.

This work is generated by ploting the trajectories of the orbits of a cylindrical object and a series of small shapes attached to its interior.

The camera will orbit de cylinder and access inside it before observing the object's escape.

At some point during the path, a photography of Rama may be captured and added to the frame.

The layout of the shapes, the orbits and the color palette are procedurally generated.

Press 'V' to render the cylinder

Press '1' to '4' to select resolutions

Press 's' to download a PNG.

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