Recent content by LightningInAJar

This is a good view currently.

Basically this. A circular bar graph showing weekly variations in the weather. The central column represents maximum values. The Max. Temp in Buffalo, NY where I used the data for it I set to 99F as that was our all time hottest day ever in our history. And rain and snow fall maxes I used...

I wasn't going to model the earth. Just have the edge of the orbit. 3D printing it should be cheap. Not a major project. Just curious what it might look like. I will take a photo when it's either printed or just the 3D file to make clear what I'm thinking when I have time to plug in the data.

Maybe using an ellipse instead of a circle isn't crucial, but I just wanted to be authentic. Also was going to put a ball to be the sun as a reference to scale. Very nice diagrams.

I believe so. I think in my design software I can just create a regular polygon with a multiple of 12 sides (enough to make it smooth) so I can find 1/12 points, and apply a stretch so it becomes elliptical.

I actually don't care the cause of weather changes. I just want to represent the weather conditions historically for a given year. Temps, rain fall, snow fall, etc. Basically a round graph for a duration.

Do I need to convert degrees into days and align the particular years first day of spring with the vernal equinox?

The Earth's orbit is a perfect eclipse? No weird warps at either end? I still want to be kind of authentic with it. And how does one identify locations along the path in reference to a day of the year for a given year?

I wanted to make the model just to give a visual of the weather of a given year. The cause of weather change doesn't matter to me. Just a freeze frame of a year.

I mean there would be a base thickness of the model in general and for example increase thickness in different pie sections based on say average temp or rain fall.

I want to be precise even if it might not be noticeable with a 3D printer's level of detail. Would it not be visually noticeable to see the Earth closer to the sun in the N hemis winter?

I would like to create a 3D printable model of the earth's orbit around the sun and slice it into the months of the year. So basically a calendar. Except I wanted to add heights for relative local weather conditions for a given year. Does anyone know the best way to draw our orbit?

The tracker site never updated heat shield temps. :(

It shows me this which is weird and skewed. I would love to see a video of their position along actual path combined with live feed outside the ship.

That doesn't map out location in space.