Here's the backbone class for making Lambert spheres. You can make a super simple demo animation with the following:
from spheres import Sphere
s = Sphere()
for phase in range(0,6):
s.gen_image(phase)
fig, ax = s.plot_image(show=True)
This will show you the Lambert sphere at six different phases along its orbit. The code does some linear algebra to calculate the brightness of each pixel for a Lambert sphere of specified dimensions, resolution, albedo. The plot_image method will return a figure and axis, and I'm imagining that you can inset the axis into your code where you normally draw a circle. To facilitate natural insetting, the image has a transparent background and the frames are turned off.
Currently the code is set up to do edge-on orbits very intuitively, but for arbitrarily tilted orbits you might want to fiddle with the orbitplane keyword in the Sphere() constructor to change the viewing geometry.
Here's the backbone class for making Lambert spheres. You can make a super simple demo animation with the following:
This will show you the Lambert sphere at six different phases along its orbit. The code does some linear algebra to calculate the brightness of each pixel for a Lambert sphere of specified dimensions, resolution, albedo. The
plot_imagemethod will return a figure and axis, and I'm imagining that you can inset the axis into your code where you normally draw a circle. To facilitate natural insetting, the image has a transparent background and the frames are turned off.Currently the code is set up to do edge-on orbits very intuitively, but for arbitrarily tilted orbits you might want to fiddle with the
orbitplanekeyword in theSphere()constructor to change the viewing geometry.