Visualisation

12: Visualisation

Status: planned. This module is scoped but not yet written. The scope below is the commitment; it is here so you can see where the curriculum is going and tell us if the plan is wrong.

Seeing the geometry, in 2D and then in 3D.

Planned lessons

• Plotting orbits from the elements you already have
• Sky charts for your own horizon
• Animating a lunar month
• 3D: the Earth-Moon system to scale
• Making an animation you can show someone else

Prerequisites

• Module 08
• any earlier module you want to draw

Intended approach

Optional dependencies only; the core install stays dependency-free. Likely matplotlib for 2D, with a browser-based 3D option so nothing needs installing.

Want this sooner?

Say so in Discussions, demand genuinely reorders the queue. Better still, write a lesson: see CONTRIBUTING.md. A single lesson following the lab pattern is a complete, useful contribution.

If you want to work through this material now without waiting, say so in Discussions and someone will point you at good sources. The reading list is not the bottleneck; the lab-shaped version is.