![]() ![]() The Gaia data of the Milky Way Galaxy consists of 1.5 billion light sources. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey consists of over 50 million galaxies and 300 million objects in general. “VIRUP is precisely a way of making all of our astrophysical data accessible to everyone, and this will become even more important as we build bigger telescopes like the Square Kilometer Array that will generate tremendous amounts of data.”Īstrophysical, cosmological data and simulationsįor the moment, VIRUP can already visualize data from over 8 databases bundled together. “Visualization of astrophysical data is much more accessible than showing graphs and figures, it helps to develop intuition of complex phenomena,” explains Revaz. The latter constraint is imposed by the virtual reality environment, for a fully immersive and smooth experience. But what about creating a visual representation of the data in real-time, as if you were there, an observer at an arbitrary point in space and time? This is what astrophysicist Yves Revaz of LASTRO set out to do with the VIRUP, with the help of LASTRO software engineer Florian Cabot, and it meant rendering terabytes of data at 90 frames per second. In order to get visual representations of the vast amounts of data, like a movie, it’s standard practice to pre-render specific sequences. Even greater amounts of data are expected in the near future. There are already decades of observational data. The VIRUP challenge : visualizing terabytes of data at onceĪstronomers and astrophysicists are collecting data about billions of celestial objects in the night sky with the help of telescopes here on Earth and in space. “It’s the chance to travel through space, through time, and discover the universe.” “You can navigate through the most detailed map of the universe from the comfort of your own home,” explains Jean-Paul Kneib, director of LASTRO. ![]() The software is called VIRUP, for Virtual Reality Universe Project, and a first beta version is being released today. Now, for the very first time, you can enter the most comprehensive virtual universe based on the latest astrophysical and cosmological data, thanks to powerful, open-source software developed at EPFL’s Laboratory of Astrophysics (LASTRO). This is the beginning of a journey into outer-space, in a virtual environment developed by EPFL scientists. You can’t help but think that this is probably what an astronaut would see during a space-walk. You twist your head around only to see the moon, a tiny circle, far off in the distance. The International Space Station is an arm’s length away. You’re floating in space, just above the Earth. The vast majority of them are heavily armed and others simply serve a specific logistics role within the armed forces.Image: From left to right: Florian Cabot, Sarah Kenderdine, Yves Revaz, Jean-Paul Kneib. The navy has the dropships to transport troops, supplies and vehicles to the battlefield. To lead the war towards its enemies and maintain a very flexible supply chain and logistics, humanity relies on the help of the Imperial Navy and its space and air vehicles. It is the dagger that hangs over the heads of the extraterrestrial, it is the purifying fire for profane civilizations and it is an iron fist that holds together the billions of human souls in its vast territories. ![]() Wherever it goes, it brings death to all the enemies of humanity. It forms the fully mechanized, mobile and adaptable army for any terrain that the cosmos makes it face. The galactic empire of humanity is now a fearsome force in the galaxy. Millennia ago, the first settlers of humanity faced this cosmic horror with fierce determination, at the cost of losing millions of souls. Xenos, extrasolar life forms are widely dispersed, with their own civilizations, profane states, and empires. ![]() The galaxy of the future is a hostile place for humans. ![]()
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