Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range
Details
- External ID
- 46701373
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5006587615283268
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
A fork of Solar System Live that generates animated videos showing planetary orbits over any date range. Tracks orbital statistics (how many times Earth was lapped by Mercury/Venus, or lapped outer planets) and overlays dates/ages on each frame.Example: Einstein's lifetime (1879-1955) showing 76 years of solar system evolution. Built with Python + Pillow + ffmpeg, runs locally with Lighttpd.https://github.com/simondorfman/solar_system_live
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- animated solar system timelapse generator
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Calculating Keplerian orbital mechanics from known ephemeris data and rendering them via HTML Canvas or ffmpeg into an animated video timelapse is straightforward math and scripting.
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