Geocoder and Cave Life

Someone is accusing me of being a caveman(I am having small encounters with the law) and I saw people working from their basement and being cavemen. Anyway I found some time to make a Geocoder. You can find it here.The base technology page is terracode. Last weekend I was at Matthew's farewell, and Fab is off to France too. Those rioters will be getting major backup. I swear the people in the photos are clones, look at the similarity of expression.
A WorldWind game seems to be in the works from ShockFire. We would like XMPP-Jabber support.Hence I set up wildfire. Look forward to insane joystick gaming and shooting satellites to real missions such as find Ithaca.

St. Patrick's Day

Friday and end of work. Leaving early and having a long night at PJ O'Brien's and everywhere else. Terrapages seems to be giving Sensis a run for it's money using G-NAF data. The photos are finally here too.

WFS-T WorldWInd and Corner Reflectors

Geoserver does a very good job with WFS-T making it ideal for collaboration tools. After adding carbon support i think I can use it easily for prebuilt geo-collaboration work which may need some extension for video , audio and full immersion collaboration that I want to work on.
Meanwhile I managed to use blender to make my first animation with camers movements and lense angle change. Will get into the advanced skinning and inverse kinematics as soon as I can. Meanwhile I checked out PovRay. Well they are way ahead. I'll go on and use anything I can for the sake of science.
The Landsat and Aster for WorldWind also seems to be gathering pace. I wish we could get some ALOS.

Bridging and Planetarium

I tried bridging and IP aliasing my interfaces so that I can stay connected to something all the time. Works if I do it by hand, Gentoo network scripts seem to have some sort of problem. This is the official linux bridging howto.

I braved the cold and went out in the night to look at the stars. Then I chicken out and played with stellarium and skycam instead.

MAR and NDISWRAPPER

Finally CISCO and its cheapy conterpart Linksys are helping out. My wireless card died so I went and got a LinkSys WPC54G. Works marvellously with ndiswrapper and the windows drivers that came on the cd. Upgraded my kernel to 2.6.14 and even got the nvidia kernel driver to work with xorg. Things seemed too good till I found this bug on the MAR. That is going to make my life harder.

DragonFly

This speaks for itself. I think i overdid the colors but fire has to go with dragons.

Blender & Yafray

3D Engineering is really cool ... really getting into it just as Fabrice is getting into video editing. Here is my low effort work in Blender. Now I can export that render directly to GL and play with it. Looking forward to play PlaneShift as well.

ALOS Loader

Finally my ALOS Loader has been accepted into RAT. Quite happy about it. Nice PALSAR images coming in as well. Future of Radar looks great.

Multitouch Screen

The future of touchscreen is here. Check this out.

VTP Plant Library

Apart from being a very cool site the VTP plant library is awsome. Thanks very much for the excellent work. Hope to be making some Austrlian additions to it as well as prevent them from burning up and releasing all the Carbon.

FarCry

At Fabrice's insistence I checked out the FarCry Engine. Very very nice given with a licence you get full source and R&D support. Now if only it supports full world mode or you can switch engines smoothly once you zoom in. Going to get in touch.

Tired ... tired ...

Madly played Wesnoth last night to forget things .. can't relax ... so I made fire.

Back Home

Finally back from the Melbourne trip. Great fun and relaxing time ... spent a few beautiful days doing no work and being a tourist. Here is what resembled space most in my trip . Guess what , it's jellyfish.

Off to Melbourne

Will be off blogging for a few days. Going to Melbourne for a holiday and to meet someone. Hopefully will not think of work and relax. And have nice stories to tell and photos when I get back.

I can hardly find anything to pack.Except a few clothes and my newly arrived GPU GEMS.

ShapeFile support for WorldWind

Added various tweaks to shapefiles to speed up display of the World Shapefile tile tree. Here are various altitude switching results. Load this URL via the shapefile GUI to test.

Savi + Geomview + Quake 2

Fianlly got SAVI and GeomView to play nice in my system and you can see the result here. Thanks Lloyd.

Also got a female model from Quake 2 in JOGL. Hope to turn her into a Quagent much to the excitement of my boss.

Finally Works on my Windows - JNLP

Finally got it to work with Windows .. here is the side by side comparison. Please ignore the low resolution.

Jake2 Review

Finally some JOGL game that works over Webstart and gives decent FPS. The venerated Quake engine in full JOGL implementation. Check out the Jake2 webstart.The screenshot also looks nice. Microsoft ClickOnce also looks promising for fast application deployment.

In other news really looking forward to some time off my obsessions and my trip to Melbourne.

Xstream

I was tired of configuring a Psuedo GPS server with multiple sources till I found XStream -- really easy to use for configs and backing in XML. You will have to do it by hand once after you have designed your objects and serialized them, after that adding multiple sources is a breeze via vectors. No messing around with beans, no compulsary getters and setters, just appropriate constructors. Axis should use this to serialize objects in SOAP that are not XML standard and JAVA specific.

WebStart JNLP frustration

Frustrating is the word to sum up the day .... after all the fiddling I only got the webstart to work on my Gentoo Box. No joy in Windows ... if you are feeling adventurous try out JOGL RealTimeClouds. The day's summary is as below. For something that actually works check FluidIdiom. If you are willing to test on Mac or Solaris please leave me a comment.