Show HN: Generate animated solar system timelapse videos for any date range

  • Posted 2 days ago by SimonDorfman
  • 9 points
https://github.com/simondorfman/solar_system_live/
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

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