t00fri wrote:...would not have brought up this matter again here, if Selden and Andrea had not suggested the globular cluster project as a "homework" to Chrisr
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Fridger, just to understand what's behind your
: where's the problem?
Personally I asked a lot of things regarding the aesthetic aspect of Celestia (yes, there is not only science, there is also the pleasure to see and to show BEAUTIFUL things).
I received, from you too, some “OK, I’ll do it some day”, but if
m3ntol would have not kindly coded most of what I (and other people, too) was asking for (in four days, BTW, without having seen Celestia code before that, so perhaps this was not so difficult and time-keeping to do it :wink), probably no one would have solved this (little, I know) aesthetic problem for me and many people like me that use Celestia to create new interest and knowledge for the Universe, mainly investing our time and efforts on our future, i.e. the next generations.
So, if you want to proceed ONLY along the scientific side of the matter (that fortunately often is beautiful, too, e.g. the Earth obtained using your Nmtools and F-TexTools), you are obviously free to go on this way, but, PLEASE, don’t stop other people that, even without your scientific knowledge, would try to make something new, like
chrisr offered to do with globular clusters.
In practice you halted him, and I don’t think this is in agreement with an open source project spirit.
In the last years I showed to a lot of people the globular cluster produced with Rassilon’s add-on, shown in the image below, even if it is far from aesthetically perfect, and surely nor scientifically correct.
Nevertheless, it allowed me to explain them the feeling of living on a planet of a star internal to the cluster, and young students (and adults, too) were fascinated by this.
When your globular cluster generator will be ready and available, surely it will have a very different importance for Celestia, but its totally scientific approach will be largely useless for my needs.
So, why not let other people to produce nice and not so strictly scientific things?
I don’t remember flames raised by you against the plethora of strange systems and worlds produced for Celestia, most of them impossible to exist really, so…..?
And, BTW, have you found someone contrary on the introduction of the LaTeX use in Celestia, even if it will be surely useful for a very small number of people here (and, BTW, chrisr is one of them!)?
Obviously not, because no one here wishes to limit the scientific approach of Celestia.
But you are limiting the aesthetic one, and it’s not correct, it looks like a kind of racism for all of us not scientifically involved, and this is unacceptable, at least by me.
Take it easy, Fridger, this is not a job, it's a pleasure, and should ever be such.
My opinion.
Bye
Andrea
