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Force Asteroids above certain mass to be spherical #18

Open iontom opened 10 years ago

iontom commented 10 years ago

Ceres, Pallas, etc are all large enough that they are spherical. We should force the GL shader to depict this. (Right now they are lumpy)

Above diameter of 290, asteroids are mostly spherical. Lower mass and size equates to less spherical. This could be expressed in the shader.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995MNRAS.277...99H http://www.tau.ac.il/~kantor/QUIZ/02/A0202_KMD.pdf

These Big ones are almost dwarf planets

Vesta even had a mission to it, so we have a texture we can use: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/589448main_pia14703-43_946-710.jpg http://ufb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/resources/asteroids/textures/