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Solar System orbit inset
A small top-down diagram of the planets’ real orbits round the Sun with the home planet on its own orbit at any distance.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| distance (Can change over time) | number | 1 | 0.01 to 1000 AU | the home planet’s distance from the Sun in astronomical units (AU); give a track to move itCan change over time |
| home | choice | Earth | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | which planet is home; its real orbit stays as a faint ring and it moves to the distance given |
| label | text | – | – to 24 | the name written by the planet; empty uses the home planet’s name |
| planets | text | Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune | – to 120 | the other planets whose real orbits are drawn, by name; empty for none |
| scale | choice | log | log, linear | log fits 0.1 to 40 AU in one disc; linear keeps distances to scale out to max |
| min | number | 0.1 | 0.01 to 5 AU | where the Sun’s edge sits on a log scale, in AU |
| max | number | 40 | 0.5 to 200 AU | the distance at the disc’s rim, in AU |
| also | choice | light | none, km, light | a second line under the distance: kilometres, or how long light takes to cross it |
| decimals | integer | -1 | -1 to 4 | decimal places of the distance; -1 picks them from its size |
| corner | choice | bl | bl, br, tl, tr | which corner of the frame it sits in |
| size | number | 0.3 | 0.2 to 0.5 | the diameter of the disc, a share of the frame’s height |
| sun | color | #f2b25c | – | the Sun |
| ink | color | #f3f0e8 | – | words, numbers, ticks and outlines |
| accent | color | #4fb8e8 | – | the live value, the fill, what is highlighted |
| font | choice | sans | sans, serif, mono | the face of the distance and the planets’ names |
| backing | number | 0.35 | 0 to 1 | how dark the soft panel behind the diagram is; 0 for none |
| reveal | number | 0.8 | 0 to 5 s | how long the orbits take to draw in from the Sun outward; 0 shows it at once |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'orbit-inset': { distance: 1, home: 'Earth' } }Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.