Celestia + Lua-web-tools + textures from Internet

[darius]

Hi,

Interested to have textures refreshed, updated on-the-fly from the net.

It looks like Lua-web-tools support Apache web server, mySql and more.

Since I live on Win32 XP I plan to install cygwin, compile Lua-web-tools
to keep downloading textures from Internet
and have Celestia's Cel/ Celx / Lua script to loop preloadtextures to get texture refresh in Celestia.

Please let me know your opinion since I am great fan of Celestia but not much experienced in Lua.

Since Celestia supports window split (vertical, horizontal) I would like to have one window to display live satellite imaginary.

I was told about memory limitations in Celestia and no support for multi-threading but Celestia is great tools for education
and another sought feature is 3D anaglyphs space viewer

Tested 2D > 3D anaglyphs image conversion in GIMP > GMIC, Tom Keil's filter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomkeil/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/discu ... 744/page2/

http://t.co/HxAVq1ClFK

Sorry for all-in-one but really need to know your opinion.

Darius

[John Van Vliet]

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[darius]

Thanks John,

from just where on " ? the internet?"

nothing changes very fast

You are exactly right.
I get Earth's images from Nasa and need to configure Celestia to act as a smart viewer.
I get Earth's satellite imaginery and need to use Celestia as a smart viewer.

Since Celestia supports window split (vertical, horizontal) I would like to have one window to display live satellite imaginary.

if you rerite the celestia source code
but then there is google earth , that already dose that[/quote]

Google earth is ok but I prefer off-line mode scripted application like Celestia.

I exactly need to edit overlay polylines, circles and alike objects from a library of ready objects.

Celestia looks to be flexible to me to support these features.

btw
How to run diaporama > more objects in infoImage.lua
how to switch between images ?

darius

[John Van Vliet]

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[darius]

[/quote]
do you have 6 to 8 4 Tb drives for the earth data
about 12 to 32 terabits of storage
and at least a 4 box xenon 8 core powered cluster to run the offline storage[/quote]

John,

nothing of this kind but I can view live telescope video on-the-fly

I get satellite imaginery emailed from NASA and all I need is to
process images like http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/im ... st_lrg.jpg
into texture fit for Celestia, nothing special.
http://cliveg.bu.edu/greeningearth/ssnltydim/bu-pr.pdf