Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #43660
From: Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com>
Subject: Astronomical positioning in AE (script?)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 23:21:49 -0400
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

I’m working on the Big Bang section of the film. A local community college is researching celestial objects that have been imaged. They provide two pieces of data – the spherical position via a value for right ascension & declination. And a distance in megaparsecs.

 

I need to convert this into a manageable form in AE. Obviously, some kind of compensation for

 

I found this on converting to XYZ – but the how to create the math to work in AE, I’m not sure what is the best way:

 

http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue14/wbputtingstars.htm

 

I don’t know if this should be setup in Excel and then exported into AE, or some kind of script built – which is probably beyond my admittedly poor scripting skills.


Thoughts?

 

stephen van vuuren

336.202.4777

 

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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

 

 
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