# Making 3D planets

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/making-3d-planets/6136
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [December 1, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/making-3d-planets/6136 "2018-12-01T07:26:35Z")
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### Author: ![kll](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kll/32/964_2.png) [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/making-3d-planets/6136/2 "2018-12-01T07:30:22Z")

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i think you should do it in real 3D…  
not try to emulate 3D in 2D by fake size.  
also see

> [@3D solar system simulator](https://discourse.processing.org/t/3d-solar-system-simulator/5478/2):
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> very good, would like to learn from you to improve my show [http://kll.engineering-news.org/kllfusion01/articles.php?article\_id=154#here8](http://kll.engineering-news.org/kllfusion01/articles.php?article_id=154#here8) of the objects/planets, also i still have problems with the orbits absolute angles ( that is why i come here to the forum in the first place ) and initial settings (1.1.2000), the kepler elliptic orbits work. [snap-083] ( this one does not use a library, views , orbits, operation ( mouse and buttons ) are coded beginner style // difficult to read ) c…

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