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Back from expo

Monday, August 18th, 2008 at 11:55 am Written by:

Have been at CUCC expo 2008 in Austria for the past three weeks. Apart from the caving, the carries up to top camp, the carries back from top camp, efforts to find an easy surface route down to 161 entrance h (failed), I did quite a bit on Tunnel as half the user-base was there.

Aside from a bunch of user interface issues, some of which got fixed, and some of which just get ignored until the user has gotten used to them and will then complain if it gets changed to something “better”, it became apparent that the cave we’re doing it on has become just too complex, (see the 2006 version here) and so I started work on an atlas feature. A rough estimate suggested that the cave needs to be covered by 140 A3 atlas tiles. This would be a so much work that I came up with a scheme to generate them automatically. Since I want some words on them, I’m extracting the explorers and dates of each section from the survey data. Also, as the survey is in colour, it might as well have a photo on each page. The automatic allocation of these will be done later.

A set of pages so far done is in 204 renderings. Browsers are very bad at showing images zoomed out, so they’ll look terrible. You have to save them to your disk individually to view them in something else, I suspect. At some point we should print a set of these tiles to start finding all the errors.

I can’t seem to upload images on this blog at the moment, so this will have to do.

Now to get back to some machining work.

1 Comment

  • 1. Caving » Two upstat&hellip replies at 20th August 2008, 3:42 pm :

    […] Back from expoApart from the caving, the carries up to top camp, the carries back from top camp, efforts to find an easy surface route down to 161 entrance h (failed), I did quite a bit on Tunnel as half the user-base was there. … […]

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