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Using Blender in Radio Astronomy Visualization

Bart ·

Rhys Taylor presents scientific work on the visualization of radio astronomy data using Blender.

Rhys writes:

This is my second significant (for me, anyway) piece of scientific coding – the first was an automatic HI source finder, GLADOS (Galaxy Line Analysis for Detection Of Sources). FRELLED is a set of Python scripts for Blender to let it view 3D FITS files in the realtime display. I’ve already described my Blender FITS-viewing efforts – the difference with this script is that it’s designed to be robust and user-friendly (or at least non-hostile). It has a GUI and everything !

I’ve seen a few attempts at realtime medical imaging in Blender, but most efforts seem to have concentrated on rendering rather than the realtime display. Which is fine, but such viewers already exist. I wanted to be able to freely examine my data sets from any angle, mostly because it’s cool. I was also vaguely hoping that it might reveal new faint extended features that would be difficult to spot in two dimensions.

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Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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