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Here's a new tool I've been working on the whole morning and noon (time zone: CEST): CmodSpritesGen (or CMOD-SG)

It generates - as its name says - sprites models as .cmod models

Readme and license: Everything in the zip package

Download:

Whoa! That's ingenious!

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Is it possible to connect CmodSpritesGen to SDSS DR17 somehow?

https://www.sdss.org/dr17/data_access/tools/

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It would be also cool to connect the Gaia Sky database to this utility:

https://gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/gaiasky/docs/3.1.1/Data-catalogs-formats.html

john71 wrote:Is it possible to connect CmodSpritesGen to SDSS DR17 somehow?

No, but I'm thinking about a way to do this.

john71 wrote:It would be also cool to connect the Gaia Sky database to this utility:

This gives me an idea: a Gaia data catalog extractor - but that will be lots of sun-masses of code