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Software development for Bishop Museum Exhibit
Aloha,
I’m looking for some computer science guru to help write some scripts for Bishop Museum's Science on a Sphere exhibit (which runs Redhat Linux) for use in general public and school group programming.
For info on the exhibit see:
http://sos.noaa.gov
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/planetarium/sos.html
I’m looking for someone with the following some/all of the following skills.
Linux experience
Python, TCL/TK, shell scripting
Networking experience (network enabled applications)
Visual Basic 8
Unfortunately, there is no / very little budget on this, but it is a great opp to showcase your work to over 200,000 visitors annually.
Please contact lgeschwind [at] bishopmuseum [dot] org if interested.
Mahalo,
Leon
I’m looking for some computer science guru to help write some scripts for Bishop Museum's Science on a Sphere exhibit (which runs Redhat Linux) for use in general public and school group programming.
For info on the exhibit see:
http://sos.noaa.gov
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/planetarium/sos.html
I’m looking for someone with the following some/all of the following skills.
Linux experience
Python, TCL/TK, shell scripting
Networking experience (network enabled applications)
Visual Basic 8
Unfortunately, there is no / very little budget on this, but it is a great opp to showcase your work to over 200,000 visitors annually.
Please contact lgeschwind [at] bishopmuseum [dot] org if interested.
Mahalo,
Leon
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Permalink Reply by Roger Garrett on -
When I first saw this exhibit I thought, "Wow, pretty neat", but then the presentation started and I realized it wasn't as neat as I had thought. Invariably, whatever feature on the globe they were talking about in the presentation was on the other side from where I was standing. So I'd move around a bit to get a better view. And then the next thing they talked about was best visible from where I just moved away from. The problem is, how do you show things on a globe, with people positioned all around it, and still have it so that everyone can see what the narrator is talking about?
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on -
You could use multiple globes. Four globes rotated to have the area of interest pointing out would do the trick.
Roger Garrett said:When I first saw this exhibit I thought, "Wow, pretty neat", but then the presentation started and I realized it wasn't as neat as I had thought. Invariably, whatever feature on the globe they were talking about in the presentation was on the other side from where I was standing. So I'd move around a bit to get a better view. And then the next thing they talked about was best visible from where I just moved away from. The problem is, how do you show things on a globe, with people positioned all around it, and still have it so that everyone can see what the narrator is talking about?
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Permalink Reply by Brian Russo on -
We're making some progress on this.
Whipped up some python to stitch wms together and create the sos playlist file.
No clue if it works yet.. but it should!
Warning: Ugly Code
http://pastebin.com/m790887c
SRTM Magnitude stitched from 512px tiles (because if you try to grab it all at once the server refuses)
http://entropy.net/srtm_mag.jpg
(The letterboxing is normal, SRTM does not cover the poles).
Or MODIS:
http://entropy.net/mos.jpg
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Permalink Reply by Evan Rapoport on -
No can do on the above skill sets, but it would be awesome to find a way to integrate Google Maps app's built on Flex or AIR. If you get there, let me know!
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Permalink Reply by Robert Lee on -
Are you still looking for volunteers on this project? I am a student on summer vacation and I'd love to make a contribution to this.
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