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I just wanted to let all those interested know that I've posted an article regarding some of my email conversations I've had with Chris Laurel recently. I was actually fortunate enough to have one of my code submissions accepted by Chris. You can now use X11 colors in your celx docs and cel scripts.

Article: http://www.woven-media.com/

Thanks in advance!

Nice article, Brent. And thanks for your contribution.
Guillermo

Thank you Guillermo. It's been a lot of work getting the site up and I appreciate the feedback more than you know!
Thank you as well, I've read many of your fine posts. Your input is always welcome.

-Brent P.

I enjoyed the article as well, and appreciated all the reference links. Best wishes with your site, looking good!

LordFerret wrote:I enjoyed the article as well, and appreciated all the reference links. Best wishes with your site, looking good!

Thank you very much, lordferret! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've been encouraged by the response. I'll post more on Celestia in the near future.

Thanks again,

Brent P.

Great article.

It's really pleasant to read.

The qt4 interface looks fantastic.

Wow, thanks duds! I'm very encouraged by all this! I plan on writing more...time permitting.

If anyone has any obscure Celestia resources or links, let me know, I'll post them to my site.

Thanks for the support,

- Brent P.

Umm... I don't have any obscure links, but if you're looking for an idea for something to write about - I have one. There are several developers here at Celestia, each with their own unique background, technical expertise, and addon contributions (from science fiction to science fact). Just take a look through the Motherload addons at all the marvelous work achieved by these people! I'll let you take it from there.

Now, that's what I'm talking about! Feedback! Great idea and I'll definitely look into it.

Appreciate it lordferret!,

- Brent P.

28 May 2008 UPDATE: I've posted some corrections to my article for those interested. I had written that Celestia had been downloaded over two million times -- it's well over six million! This has been corrected. I've also given more prominent standing to the co-authors of Celestia, rightly so, and apologize if any of the "old devs" felt I was neglecting their amazing contributions. Lastly, I detailed more accurately the advanced scientific concepts that the author and co-authors wrestle with and how implementation will be ported to code. I added the author's list, too.

Finally, I want to assure the Celestia community and authors that woven-media.com is an open-source site that promotes the FREE exchange of knowledge and ideas. This is NOT an attempt to drive traffic to my site for commercial purposes. My commercial activity exists on a seperate WAN intranet unavailable to the world-wide web. I just love Celestia and the community at large.


- Brent P.