Miyazaki is known for his dislike of technology. In the past he has said he does not own a computer, fax machine or DVD player and cannot operate a video camera.
A bit of a wally, wot! LOL!
Barry - Stellarium iPad app.... hmmm... that'd be nice
Barry - Stellarium iPad app.... hmmm... that'd be nice
Hi Chris
I believe Fabien is working on on a Maemo version so he might also have something in the pot for ipad. That would be nice particularly with the automatic aligning it would make those cardboard planispheres look mickey mouse.
Hmm! Lay on your back and hold it above you. A personnal planetarium.
Maemo is a port of Debian, so I imagine that it would be relatively straight forward. Given that, iOS is based on OSX, a Unix derivative, so it'd be nice to see Stellarium on iPad/iPod/iPhone. There are a bunch of planetariums already available for it, and the iPad platform might open up a huge international opportunity for Stellarium - which I'd consider a premium application in comparison to those other than Voyager and StarMapPro.
Maemo is a port of Debian, so I imagine that it would be relatively straight forward. Given that, iOS is based on OSX, a Unix derivative, so it'd be nice to see Stellarium on iPad/iPod/iPhone. There are a bunch of planetariums already available for it, and the iPad platform might open up a huge international opportunity for Stellarium - which I'd consider a premium application in comparison to those other than Voyager and StarMapPro.
Yes I think that is the aim. If Stellarium gets ported to an Ipad I will go and buy one. But at the moment an Ipad is just a "toy" for me and I have other things to get first.
Fabien's contract with the ESO finished in June and I think he is between jobs. I think he has ideas of a comercial version of "stellapad" ? to maybe make some money out of his years of effort. I wish him luck!
My "Boss" would like to be able to read and send emails to her friends but she is most computer illeterate. I have tried to teach her the basics of starting a computer and entering and operating an email program but it is no use.
I ran the promotion video on the ipad mail and showed it to her, how easy it would be send emails with just a couple of finger presses. She was quite impressed. I suggested she purchase one but when I told her the price she said "no Way" so I have not got my ipad. Boo Hoo!
I read on "whirlpool" that some people went to the shops, and mucked around with the demo models. They did a "printscreen" and copied it to the "desktop" so to speak.
When the next person come along, there was major confusion on how to operate it.......priceless....what people do for a bit of fun.
Haha!
When I got iOS4 on my phone, after a min or two of playing around I thought that it would be too easy to do that, but for people to do it to demo models.... hahahaha
I used to play with this program on the PC a decade ago, when I found it had been 'ported' to the iPhone, I got excited but the screen was just too small.... now it's on the iPad....awesome.
iPhone/Pads are awesome for making music.
Have an awesome synthesizer app on the phone called NLogSynth... if your into that sort of thing, get it... the free version is awesome.
EDIT:
Okay, a better demo of what can be done... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykJiT90PnMY
This is an awesome track and shipped with ReBirth for the PC as a demo a decade ago. Genius stuff.
More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKqXk6QBHro
(from 1:00 on.... 4:50 on is a cover of Drax Amphetamine)
Pretty much anything done by T.G.Virus for ReBirth is awesome.
Yep - it works very well indeed. When I have the 40D going (rather than the QHY-9) I'll be able to use DSLRemote to control the camera as well as the mount - making the iPad fantastic on the field. Not chained to the scope any more..... yay.
LOL!
.... getting it out is the hard part.
