Midnight Mars Browser, Midnight Mars Browser discussion |
Midnight Mars Browser, Midnight Mars Browser discussion |
Feb 11 2005, 01:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
This thread is for discussion, questions, issues with Midnight Mars Browser. Also to announce it in case anyone missed it: http://midnightmarsbrowser.blogspot.com. Oh, and any suggestions for future enhancements too, thanks.
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Jul 5 2005, 10:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
-------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
- Steven Squyres |
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Jul 5 2005, 02:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
To answer how: It turns out it's not as difficult as I thought, using Java3D. (I've always wanted to do this, but I assumed it was basically impossible.) I've extracted the camera pointing information from the headers of the PDS IMG files that are available (Sol 1-270) and used the information to create pan definition files (my own "mmb" format, which I'm still refining). We should be able to create "best guess" pan definitions for more recent sols for which the data hasn't been released yet.
To answer when: I hope to have a first version out within a couple weeks so you can play with it, but no promises. It's working pretty well in development but I need to finalize some details and add some polish before it's ready to release into the wild. |
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