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Project restarted
The sleeping time is over. As announced by Joern Wilms, we just got two new members joining the project in October. More updates to come.
2005-06-25 16:54:36 UTC by grokski
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Colour data for Mars released
We have released the colour data that complements the 128MOLA topological dataset published earlier.
This colour data is derieved from the 064 data, with certain changes.
1) The emboss has been removed (i.e. there are no highlights and shadows caused by the sunlight)
2) Bicubic interpolation and detail enhancements have been made to archieve 1/128 degree resolution.
The resulting data is obviously not 100% real-world accurate, however allows high quality visualisations to be made.
The colourmap is published as series of 64x32 pixel PNG colour files in exactly the same directory structure as the topological data. You can use fetch.sh script from Sources section. Since todays GPU hardware has powerfull and fast UV-mapping engines, there is no need to interpolate the data prior to visualisation.
2004-11-08 12:56:08 UTC by grokski
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Data fetch script released.
We have published a simple bash script used to fetch the topology data from our server. Together with the "client_scaleup" binary it allows any developer to "fetch" any of the 518400 files the Mars surface is partitioned to. It not only fetches it, but does the interpolation taking all it's neighbours under consideration. From now on, the developers can easily get the data they need to work on without storing huge amounts of topological data on their systems. Please have a look at the "Sources" section at the top of this page.
PS. No need to abuse the script and leech all the data. This is publicly available information, besides we plan to leave it for the entire life of the project and possibly longer ;)
2004-11-03 16:37:29 UTC by grokski
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Druantia Project started
We have successfuly submitted the project to SourceForge. All developers have been notified and they are expected to join the project in the next days. Please mail me if you would like to be added to the project.
I have ported the webpages from the old server and integrated them with SF's infrastructure. The main page would probably appreciate a bit of a face lift, but it serves it's purpose at the moment.
I have also updated the links at http://druantia.sf.net/links.html to reflect current state of research in fields Druantia touches.
Hopefully the project can kick off now! :)
2004-10-19 16:23:39 UTC by grokski
