Your Asterank and Asterank 3d is pretty cool. How did you get the value of the asteroids ?
Thanks. I estimated the value based on spectral class, which gives us an idea of composition based on how they reflect light. I combined this with current prices for materials mostly from the London Metal Exchange. Other costs such as getting to the asteroid and mining overhead are factored in.
This sounds awesome, nicely done.
I've been planning to do a hack like this to demonstrate the realities of interstellar travel, modelled after a game I played as a child.
Have you shown this to Planetary Resources? Just for the fun and some PR of it (at least)?
Re:All of my side-projects from 2012
by alexpopescu on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @06:58AM
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Where did you get the data for Asterank? The visualization part looks pretty neat.
All my sources are listed on http://asterank.com/about. Most of the raw data comes from the Minor Planet Center and JPL. The intuition on how to calculate value and cost comes from a number of papers on the subjects of asteroid composition and other asteroid characteristics. The actual value calculations are just formulas that I created and tweaked based on several reference objects.
Re:All of my side-projects from 2012
by cloudsteam on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @04:44AM
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Asterank is frankly inspiring, thanks so much for sharing - well done!
Six Degrees of Bowie - http://www.sixdegreesofbowie.com/ - simple musical influencers graph
web-workers-fallback - https://github.com/typpo/web-workers-fallback - webworker compatibility layer
Github Participation Graph - https://github.com/typpo/github-participation-graph - chrome extension that improves some github aesthetics
World of Loot - http://worldofloot.com/ - pinterest-style mmo wishlists
Asterank 3D - http://asterank.com/3d - interactive visualization of thousands of objects in our inner solar system
Facebook Unsee - http://ianww.com/fb-unsee/ - chrome extensions that stops facebook from telling people when you've viewed a message
Asterank - http://asterank.com - a database of asteroids that catalogs their scientific attributes and potential economic value
GiftHorse - http://gifthorse.us - gift suggestion engine that barely generates revenue via amazon affiliate links
TextBelt - http://textbelt.com - free outgoing SMS API
KeepDream - http://keepdream.me - dream logging service