If there’s a data source you’d like to use that’s not on this list, just email the data source URL to Prof D for approval.

Textures

• NASA star maps (good for backgrounds)
• Sun STEREO satellite and Hyperwall examples
• Earth Blue Marble images (NASA), including topography and bathymetry

Models

• Smithsonian scanned 3D models
• NASA solar system models
  • More NASA models
• Artec 3D science scans
• NIH 3D Print Exchange
  • 3D Printing the Novel Coronavirus (with a link to full COVID molecule data)
• RCSB Protein Data Bank (with links to other PDBs around the world)
  • About RCSB PDB
  • PDB 101 (the educational portal for PDB), including Coronavirus
  • Molecular landscapes by David S. Goodsell (art based on PDB molecular data)
  • How animators work with PDB data (interview)

Positional Data

• AMNH Digital Universe (star locations, etc)
  • Constellation Vis used in our class tutorial
• USGS Earth Explorer
• New York State elevation and map data
• Earth fire maps (NASA)
• Elevation and Topography maps (USGS)
• NYC MTA Subway Turnstile Data
  • Simplified Turnstile Data
• NYC Open Data
  • NYC Building Footprints

Stats and Demographic Data

• CDC COVID-19 Mortality Data