Slice of Gaia DR2 tour segment


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The videos are screen captures of interactive sessions on an iMac Pro, rendering the 1.33-billion star tour with the three.js JavaScript 3D library.

MP4 Videos

Fly through the tour, starting at Earth and moving out on a straight line.

Close-up of the tour, along the outer edge of the point set.

Trace the tour, adding 200,000 stars at a time and displaying an advancing segment of 10,000,000 edges.

Fly through a 178,000,000-edge segment of the tour.

Notes

We thank Michael Boyle for suggesting the use of color hue to indicate the order stars appear in our solution.