Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] [GSoC] Sky Quiz

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Georg, Thank you for raising my awareness of new ephermides from JPL which is very useful to know. I'd like to read around them and find out if any are superior to our current methods (bearing in mind that Stellarium's current VSOP87 algorithm I think is optimised for speed). But the DE408 you

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] [GSoC] Sky Quiz

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Morris
I like the idea too. I think there would be community interest in creating quizzes once the feature is written, and it would be very nice for rainy/cloudy evenings. Thanks, Thomas On 26 March 2012 17:27, bdwashbu wrote: > I think it sounds like fun and could also be pretty useful.  It'd probably

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Website redesign feedback wanted

2012-03-27 Thread Alexander Wolf
Greetings all, I think we can merge new design with trunk and propose translate it for translators. WBW, Alexander Wolf -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu

[Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC proposals

2012-03-27 Thread Timothy Reaves
I have received notification of only one proposal made to Google, and that was this morning, EDT. As the student proposal area is now open, please make sure you are submitting your proposals through the GSoC website, as required. Thanks. ---

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC proposals

2012-03-27 Thread Allen Zhong
Hi Tim, I've submitted my proposal through the GSoC website, the link to my proposal is http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/astroprofundis/1 I made it private but it's supposed to be visible to mentors. Please check it and give me a feedback if you find anything wron

[Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC: Interested in participating

2012-03-27 Thread No Idea
Hello, I'm Ferdinand Majerech aka kiith-sa, a student of Informatics at University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik, Košice, Slovakia. I'm interested in the "Irregular Solar System bodies" idea (or anything else involving OpenGL or graphics in general). So far I had a brief look at Stellarium source and g

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] [GSoC] Sky Quiz

2012-03-27 Thread Georg Zotti
Hello Thomas! Thank you for your interest! There is nothing wrong with using VSOP87 for planetarium software for the present time, except if you want to steer a spacecraft to Uranus, then you should rather use DE405. ;-) VSOP87 is nice because it almost immediately provides planet positions with

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] windows build latest changes

2012-03-27 Thread Alexander Wolf
Hi Barry! 2012/3/26 Barry Gerdes : > OK Alex > I think I know what you want. I will update and make a new build with those > instrction but uncomment those commented lines in that cmake.txt Do you have news? -- With best regards, Alexander --

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC: Interested in participating

2012-03-27 Thread Reaves, Timothy
In summary, the OpenGL code is stagnant, and needs to be cleaned up. You mention isolation of code, and that's one thing. There are others; most of the defects registered against the app have to do with OpenGL (or drivers). I thought Alex was having a conversion with someone on orbital data; wou

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] windows build latest changes

2012-03-27 Thread Barry Gerdes
Hi Alex I sent this yesterday Hi Alex I tried some builds using your suggestions but I waited too long and my source had been updated to 5269 so nothing happened. I can now build with the default cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" ../.. or cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DC_MAKE_BUILD_TYPE=ReleaseCandidat

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GSoC: Interested in participating

2012-03-27 Thread No Idea
As discussed on IRC yesterday, I propose a major OpenGL refactor as a project instead. The goal of this project would be to separate all OpenGL code into a separate subsystem consisting of multiple classes. Maybe even a separate namespace? (Stellarium doesn't seem to use namespaces - should I just