Light Curves Of A Fractal Asteroid
This is a neat little Idea.... Maybe one day I'll do somehting
useful with it (authors note - 2 years on and I've still to do something
with it).
Using my little fractal asteroid generator I thought it would be
fun to vbuild a hypothtical asteroid and see what kind of rotational lightcurves
it would produce. There are a lot of free variables here - asteroid rotation
axis, illumination direction and then there's a whole slew of surface properties
which I could look at.... anyway here' a few examples...
Test Asteroid Rotating
LIght Curve Graphs For a Range of Illumination Angles
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0 degrees
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45 Degrees
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90 Degrees
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135 Degrees
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180 Degrees....
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225 Degrees
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270 Degrees
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315 Degrees
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All these angles are taken with respect to the viewer, and in the
plane of the object's rotation. The Values are Log(Brightness) - don't
read too much into the scales they are dimensionless - calculated by pixel
counts. The x-scale is the angle of rotation in Degrees - the long axix
begins at 90 degrees to the viewer.
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