Bobby's Big Box of Galaxies: The Categorization and Visualization of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Robert Steven Baldocchi · 2019
The visualizations presented in this thesis show a culmination of my efforts to categorize the available data in a useful way as well as present these data in a visual medium. I include all of the galaxy and quasar data available in DR15. Galaxies have been divided into eighteen different categories in order to provide a detailed visualization of the SDSS data. This visualization was developed using a modified version of Blender, Astroblend. Astroblend, developed by Naiman (2016), improves upon the cosmological visualization capabilities of Blender. In the following chapters, I will discuss the methods used to categorize galaxies, the methods through which DR15 was searched, and how the data were processed. I will also describe the process of using Astroblend to visualize cosmological data.