To create virtual landscapes of planets that may exist in the universe.
The idea of "Possible Landscapes" grew from our collective attraction to exploration, which after having covered every corner of the earth has us reaching out to explore further and further into the depths of the cosmos. Recent discoveries have confirmed the existence of planets orbiting around stars similar to our sun.
"Possible Landscapes " will result in a program capable of composing an infinite number of landscapes, each with a different probability of existing. The program will enable us to visualize a "photo" of each landscape, giving us the possibility to be present virtually on all these possible planets.
The goal is to give each possible planet and its corresponding possible landscape a probability of existence in one of the 200,000 billion star systems that surround us. Using the scientific data linked to the creation of our own solar system's planets, we will create a model, which could be applied to any star and its planetary system. Thus the resulting images will be somewhere in between astrophysics and the
imaginary.
From the model created will be chosen a certain number of these possible planets whose data will be used in the program to generate the topology, the sky, the colors, of each possible landscape.
The project can be divided into two distinct procedures:
- The Model
The first part would be working with astrophysicians to regroup and analyse existing data into two categories;
1. The creation of the solar system
2.research on existing extra-solar planets
This process would result in a mathematical model retracing the creation of a star and the planets surrounding it.
- The renderer
The second process will be to translate the data of the mathematical model above into a virtual photography of the planet. We must define the corelation between the given data and shapes and colors. and then create a corresponding rendering engine, using knowledge in optics and 3d imagery.