Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] A GSOC-like from ESA

2011-06-29 Thread Thomas Morris
Sounds great, I'd like to implement something similar to SDSS or Virgo for the IPHAS (H alpha) Galactic plane survey (http://www.iphas.org/). Some of their images are awesome. Plotting the source catalogue would be interesting if not quite as pretty. Do we have an estimate of the bandwidth which S

[Stellarium-pubdevel] Drawing ellipses

2011-07-04 Thread Thomas Morris
Hello, I'd like to draw an ellipse outline for galaxies, so I've implemented StelPainter::drawEllipse method, based on drawCircle. However nothing is drawn even when I follow down to glDrawArrays call in the debugger. The X,Y and sizes are consistent with something appearing on the screen. I call

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Drawing ellipses

2011-07-05 Thread Thomas Morris
o try to copy it. Thanks, Thomas On 5 July 2011 10:32, Alexander Wolf wrote: > 05.07.2011 05:15, Thomas Morris пишет: >> I'd like to draw an ellipse outline for galaxies, so I've implemented >> StelPainter::drawEllipse method, based on drawCircle. However nothing >> is d

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New DSO catalog

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Alex, It's a good idea, although we may not want to restrict the unified catalogue to the same license as the NGC/IC catalogue (which prohibits commerical use and is therefore more strict than the GPL). How about an extension containing the Messier/Caldwell/Herschel objects hopefully with GPL l

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] esa - socis

2011-08-03 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Eleni, We use bzr for source control, instructions to check out and build the latest version are here: http://stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Bzr_checkout Some developer docs are here: http://www.stellarium.org/doc/head/ Please ask any questions you might have. Good luck! Thomas On 3 August 2

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Possible new design for website

2011-08-04 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Alex, Using firefox 3.6.10 on win XP, the screenshots bar is misplaced in the centre of the screen, blocking the 'news' column. Also in my opinion the sliding transition is slightly distracting, would a fade-in/out be better as the screenshot changes? Thanks, Thomas On 4 August 2011 12:57, Al

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Possible new design for website

2011-08-04 Thread Thomas Morris
Looks good, the screenshots slide correctly now. BTW I think 'last version' should be 'latest version' as it's still active project. :) Thanks, Thomas On 4 August 2011 14:15, Alexander Wolf wrote: > OK, I fix error in Firefox > > -- > With best regards, Alexander > > ---

[Stellarium-pubdevel] Pushing a branch to the server

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi, I would like to push my current changes for the new NGC catalogue to the server. It's still work in progress so I'd like to push to a branch, allowing other people to review my code, give advice and so on. How should I achieve this? Thanks, Thomas ---

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Pushing a branch to the server

2011-09-09 Thread Thomas Morris
" which I think will be great to have in Stellarium. I have a launchpad account, my username is ThomasM. Thanks, Thomas On 14 August 2011 19:25, Bogdan Marinov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Thomas Morris wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to push my current ch

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Pushing a branch to the server

2011-09-23 Thread Thomas Morris
ltiple names Please let me know any comments, code improvements, whatever you think. Thanks, Thomas PS: not sure where I should put the catalog data itself yet, email me and I'll send it to you. On 10 September 2011 07:05, Alexander Wolf wrote: > 09.09.2011 22:23, Thomas Morris пишет: >

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] It's time for 0.11.1

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas Morris
I must admit it came as a surprise to me as well. But I do agree with Alex that we should try to aim for regular releases to keep development moving forward. Is there a features/bug fixes page for the new release so I have an idea what to test? For example, are the new planet textures in this relea

[Stellarium-pubdevel] New NGC catalogue

2012-02-09 Thread Thomas Morris
tellarium/deep-sky I merged Alex's Deep Sky Markers branch into my own; I think he has merged it with trunk since then. Thanks, Thomas On 9 February 2012 11:13, Bogdan Marinov wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Thomas Morris wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >>

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] renaming of members in the core

2012-02-20 Thread Thomas Morris
I think Timothy was being sarcastic? (Qt is the library/toolkit we use) I tend to agree with Matthew regarding API changes, since many script engine users may not be regular/serious programmers, and don't want to change their scripts too often. Just my opinion! Thanks, Thomas On 20 February 2012

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] DSO Catalogue Blueprint

2012-03-18 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Chiraag, I'm Thomas, I'm currently working on the new DSO catalogue blueprint. My branch is here: https://code.launchpad.net/~tom-s-morris/stellarium/new-ngc-catalog The main changes are in Nebula, NebulaMgr. The catalogue itself isn't checked into the branch for licensing reasons so I'd like

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Idea: DSO viewing options

2012-03-18 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi, Sounds a good idea to me. Worth noting that with the new NGC DSO catalogue from Prof Wolfgang Steinicke we'll be able to filter on galaxy surface brightness as well as magnitude (and other fields too, if desired). Have a look in Nebula.cpp from the new NGC catalogue branch if interested. http

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Idea: DSO viewing options

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Brian, Perhaps this could be implemented as a plug-in? ("extended DSO controls" or something like that). Personally I would like some extended controls particularly for making full use of the new NGC data catalogue. (Galaxy display based on surface brightness for example, which would certainly

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Idea: DSO viewing options

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Morris
at  takken.us/stellarium, but need to do more to > explain it. > I suggest that the present slide bars are an encumbrance for the user. > > Ed Takken > > > > > > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Thomas Morris wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Perhaps this could be

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] Ephemeris from the JPL?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morris
I share Georg's feeling on this. The Swiss Ephemeris website seems to be targeted towards an astrological audience rather than an astronomical one. Thanks, Thomas On 10 May 2012 10:33, Georg Zotti wrote: > Even though they used DE405/406, I feel uneasy when I read its target > audience: > > "The

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Ephemeris from the JPL?

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Morris
discussing the extension of the JPL ephemeris and discussion of algorithms used both in the integration and the data compression. Thanks, Thomas On 10 May 2012 11:46, Gour wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012 10:55:37 +0100 > Thomas Morris > wrote: > >> I share Georg's fee

[Stellarium-pubdevel] Intel GMA 945 doesn't render any stars/galaxies

2012-09-02 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi, I'm running the current head of trunk on linux/Ubuntu 10.04. Log/screenshot attached. I'll try the last release. Thanks, Thomas 2012-09-02T19:49:32 Linux version 2.6.32-42-generic (buildd@aatxe) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) ) #95-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 25 15:57:54 UTC 2012 Compil

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Intel GMA 945 doesn't render any stars/galaxies

2012-09-03 Thread Thomas Morris
FBOs in Stellarium? Thanks, Thomas On 2 September 2012 19:54, Thomas Morris wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running the current head of trunk on linux/Ubuntu 10.04. > Log/screenshot attached. > I'll try the last rele

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Observations after the GL branch merge

2012-09-10 Thread Thomas Morris
For the record I don't see performance drop at high zoom (down to 10E-4 deg fov) on either laptop (Intel 945GM) or desktop (ATI HD 6670). Thomas On 10 September 2012 16:14, Ferdinand Majerech wrote: > --safe-mode sets GL1 Qt paint engine. > The GL2 backend reqiures the GL2 paint engine, so it fa

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] GL2 rendering problem with rev 5588

2012-09-10 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi, It seems spheric mirror distortion was enabled. I've disabled it and everything now renders correctly. Thanks. Thomas On 2 September 2012 18:51, Thomas Morris wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running the latest rev 5588 on AMD x64, Scientific Linux 6.1 and > AMD HD 6670 graphic

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] SourceForge project page migration

2012-10-15 Thread Thomas Morris
Spinning on "Repo status: initializing..." for me as well. I'm at work with a pretty fast connection. Thanks, Thomas On 15 October 2012 11:28, Bogdan Marinov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Bogdan Marinov wrote: >> On 10/6/12, Bogdan Marinov wrote: >>> Hello to all. >>> >>> There's a

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] [Bulk] Re: Stellarium 0.12

2013-02-08 Thread Thomas Morris
The creator of stellarium fabien chereau has released an android port which I use and highly recommend. On Feb 8, 2013 8:21 AM, "carl hervol" wrote: > > Is there a chance that stellarium be avalable for android ?out of the 20+ tables in the astronomy club only 4 > have apples the rest have andro

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Satellites plug-in 0.8.0 - testing, code review and merge

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas Morris
I also plan to take a look this weekend. Thanks, Thomas On 6 June 2013 09:04, Matthew Gates wrote: > I saw it Bogdan, sorry I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. > > On 6 June 2013 09:03, Bogdan Marinov wrote: > > Hello. > > > > In case anyone hasn't noticed, I've proposed my Satellites

[Stellarium-pubdevel] Method for adding new NGC catalogue

2013-08-28 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi, I've recently merged the latest stellarium to my dev branch and moved to the May 2013 version of W Steinicke's NGC catalogue. I have been thinking about the best way for users to make use of it, bearing in mind the non-GPL license. I considered a plug-in, which would ask for confirmation from

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Method for adding new NGC catalogue

2013-08-29 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi Alex, Fabien, I think there would still be a place for W Steinicke's updated NGC catalogue as an option even with an improved default DSO catalogue compiled from simbad/HyperLeda. For example, the latest NGC lists distance/redshift information and corrects various mistakes present in older vers

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Status update

2013-08-29 Thread Thomas Morris
It's not going to work for my Ubuntu GMA945-based laptop, but I can understand the decision made by Qt to improve cross-platform compatibility especially on windows. As an aside, I'm eager to run stellarium on my raspberry pi (and the GPU may be sufficient for rendering) but I'm not sure about the

[Stellarium-pubdevel] Windows 8.1 build using VS2015

2015-07-27 Thread Thomas Morris
Hi, I'd like to build Stellarium for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) using VS2015. I followed the instructions on the wiki as closely as possible with a couple of (hopefully unimportant) changes: * I'm using Visual Studio 2015 * I'm using Qt 5.3.2 (msvc2013_64_opengl) I installed the dependencies (includin