Tim Dykes, Ph.D. student from the University
of Portsmouth, is visiting CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) for four
weeks to work on 3D visualisation of galaxies with Bärbel Koribalski,
enhancing the ray tracing software splotch with a modified radiative transfer
function to visualise dust in galaxies. As part of the visualisation process,
he is using models generated by tilted ring fitting code
(TiRiFiC), developed by Gyula
Jozsa et al, and wrote a simple
python script to visualise the 3D models - shown is M83 (modeled by Peter
Kamphuis).
