I wanted to experiment with the use of motion blur for the following:
- When moving between bodies, since this can result in a fast "fly-by".
- When observing bodies move past the camera at high speed, such as when using high time-multipliers.
- For fast orbital motion of satellites or moons. In this case it is quite distracting to see a label jump-around an orbit when it is too fast to move smoothly. In this case motion blur "smoothes" out the motion, and reduces the distraction to the eye.
- When panning the background stars.
I started with Shawn Hargreaves' post on Motion Blur. Some initial screenshots are shown below.
Figure 1. Moving towards saturn.
Figure 2. Moving past saturn.
Figure 3. Earth rotation.
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