HippLiner A 3D interstellar spaceship simulator with constellation writing function	18, Mar, 2017
	Japanese

Quick Brief about HippLiner

HippLiner is a 3D interstellar spaceship simulator that can simulate both superluminal and relativistic spaceship journey.
HippLiner can not only show and fly around the interstellar space around our solar system, but also can simulate position of stars during tens thousnads of years using 3D proper motion data. It can also draw colstellation.
HippLiner uses Hipparcos main catalogue and Hipparcos Input catalogue (for radial velocity).
Furthermore, HippLiner containes 601 open clusters from "New Catalog of Optically Visible Open Clusters and Candidates"and 2365 galaxy data from "Nearby Galaxies Catalogue" which you can display.

For more information, You can see a PowerPoint presentation file used in Global Hands-On Universe Conference 2007 (GHOU2007).
The following proceedings paper of GHOU2007 is also avalable online as,
Tomonori Nomoto, "Interstellar spaceship simulator for astronomical education and communications", "Global Hands-On Universe 2007 For Win-Win Relations between Science Research and Education", Edited by T. Handa and M. Okyudo, Universal Academy Press, Inc. Tokyo, Japan, ISBN 978-4-904164-05-1, pp. 147-151, 2008.

Environment

Windows95R2/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista with OpenGL
nVidia GeForce or greater graphic card is recommended.
For Stereoscopic 3D, nVidia Quadro or other graphic board that supports quadbuffer mode is required.
I haven't tested in many environment, so that there should still be some bugs.

Download

Current English Version: 2.7.4en0 (2017/03/18) Animation recording was enabled.

• HippLiner English Version 2.7.4en0 (117954 stars, 6.0MB)

Old English Versions:

• HippLiner English Beta Version 2.7.2-en0 (117954 stars, 6.0MB)
• HippLiner English Version 2.7.0en1 (2007/09/16, 117954 stars, 5.9MB)
• HippLiner English Version 2.6.0en0 (2007/05/04, 117954 stars, 5.6MB)
• HippLiner Large English Version 2.4.2en2: Old Version (2003/01/19, 117954 stars, 5.6MB)

Current Version: 2.7.4 (Japanese) (2017/03/18)

• HippLiner (117954 stars)(7.8MB)

iHippLiner 1.0.1 for iOS

• iHippLiner 1.0.1 was released. (2013/01/08)

Snapshots (The following snapshots are from Japanese version.)

Installation

1. Extract downloaded archive file.
2. execute HippLiner.exe

Uninstallation

1. Delete the extracted files from the archives.
2. If there is HippLiner.ini, delete it.

Current troubles

• For some graphic card (actually ATI), all stars are shown as 1 pixel dot not as variable size circle.
• For matrox Millenium G400, it takes long time after double clicking to choose star.
• Loading many constellation sometimes causes errors.
• Printing function is not avalable in version 2.1.4 therefore, please use version 2.1.5 to use printing function.

How to use HippLiner

[Mouse Action]

[Keyboard Short Cut]

References

• ESA, 1997, The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues, ESA SP-1200
• ESA, 1992, The Hipparcos Input Catalogue, ESA SP-1136
• Dias W. S., Alessi B. S., Moitinho A., Lepine J. R. D., 2002, New Catalog of Optically Visible Open Clusters and Candidates
• Tully R.B, 1988, Nearby Galaxies Catalogue

History to the birth of HippLiner

   1998 --- Dr. Handa proposed using Hipparcos data for 3D view in "Universe Live Show".


            Oct-Nov I (Nomoto) tested of Hipparcos Main Catalogue Data. 


            I plotted and viewed Hipparcos catalogue data as Open Inventor data file on ONYX. 


            Mr. Takahei, a main developer of "Universe Live Show" wrote a program to view the data.


   2000 --- Above Hipparcos data was used for 3D constellation viewer and Solar System Simulator. 


   2001 Mar For demonstration of usage of Hipparcos data in "Universe Live Show", a simple viewer(that was named HippView) was created.


        May For use of constellation drawing in Solar System Simulator, HippLiner was created using GLUT.


        Jun Using VCL and Borland C++ Builder5, HippLiner Version 1 was created.


        Sep For use of live show or live 3D viewing, I rewrited HippLiner Version 2 and also included proper motion.

Versions

   1.0   (2001/6/4)  HippLiner1(Japanese) is announced. 


   1.6.1 (2001/7/19) Final Relase of HippLiner1 


   2.0.0 (2001/9/9)  HippLiner2(Japanese) is announced. 


   2.0.1 (2001/9/16) English test version of HippLiner2 is announced. 


   2.1.4 (2001/5/4)  Many bugs are fixed and some new functions are added.        


   2.1.5 (2001/5/5)  Fixed printing bug.                                    


   2.3.2 (2002/8/7)  Version 2.3.2(English, Large Version) released          


   2.4.1 (2002/10/31)containing Open Cluster Data and Galaxy Data.           


   2.4.2 (2002/11/1) Fixed vector normalization                              


   2.5.0(2003/10/29) Color emphasize mode was added.                         
                     Sun was desplayed as -5 magnitude as default.           
                     Shortcut "X","S" was changed and "V" was added.         
                     Maximum speed was changed to 250 light year per second. 
                     Zero devision of OpenGL was avoided.                    
                     Fixed distance change to zero during shortcut operation.
                     Automatic constellation loading function was added.     
   2.6.0(2006/01/15) Additional setting (epoch, viewpoints) were saved after quiting.
                     Mouse operation was changed.                            
                     Rotation using RA and DEC is Alt+mouse drag(left).      
                     Field of vision can be rotated by Shift+Control+mouse drag.
                     Liveshow panel was changed and updated.                 
                     Resolution became selectable for stars or open clusters.
                     "Our Galaxy" can be desplayable as our milky way galaxy.
                     Automatic scale change function was added.              
                     Speed is changed during automatic distance change.      
                     Fixed map mode. (The sun was not in the center previously.)
                     Automatic constellation loading was updated. Files can  
                     selectable by using left/right arrow key. (This function
                     is off in constellation drawing mode)                   
                     An application can be loadable externally by F1 key. The
                     Application is set by [MainForm]-> ExecFilePathHIP in INI
                     file. HIP number of selected star is a parameter.       
   2.7.0(2007/09/03) Size of Star Information Window was fixed.              
                     Color and brightness of stars were simulated as black   
                     body radiaion using temperature of stars and CIE XYZ    
                     color matching function in Realistic mode.              
                     In photographic mode, brigtness is compressed and sizes 
                     of stars are similar to older version.                  
                     Status bar became invisible because it was useless.     
                     Relativistic spaceship simulation using Aberration,     
                     proper time and Doppler's effect are now possible.      
                     Live show panel below the simulation was changed.       
                     Superluminal and Relativistic modes were added to command list.
   2.7.3(2017/02/26) Cube Map export for dome projection and VR usage was    
                     enabled in this version.
                     In the previous versions, perspective projection deformed 
                     Star shape near the edge in large viewangle. In this    
                     version, the size became unchanged.                     
                     The calculation resolution of black body radiation bacame
                     100K step from 500K step, and the step-wise magnitude   
                     change was improved.
                     In movie output, proper time, earth time and speed bacame
                     recorded in this version.
                     The ratio of gradation and circle in polygon star was   
                     changed and now adjastable at hipp_displaylist_star_ratio
                     of ini file (in previous versions, 6).
   2.7.4(2017/03/18) In 2.7.3, map mode was not displayed correctly, and this
     en0(2017/03/18) is bug fix. Also, English translation was based on this version.
 

Lisence and other non-important things...

This software is provided to you "AS-IS" and without warranty of any kind.
You can use this software freely for purpose of personal and academic use.
For use of other purposes, please inform the author about the usage and the purpose of this software.

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