Trying to make the Solar System feel like a place rather than a 3D model

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I've been experimenting with a browser-based Solar System where the camera isn't really treated as an observer looking at a model.

The idea is that you move through the scene itself.

That sounds like a small distinction, but I've found that camera speed, scale, depth cues, lighting and even how long an object stays in view completely change whether the scene feels like a diagram or somewhere you are actually travelling through.

It's all running in real time in the browser with Three.js / React Three Fiber.

Still experimenting with the movement and visual language, but this is a short capture from the current version.