Hello... I'm a Computer Science student and I'm really interested in two of the given ideas in [1]: "Satellite and ring shadows on parent planets" and "Irregular Solar System bodies".
I "lurked" the pubdevel mailing list trying to find out if any of these ideas was already "occupied" by anyone, and It seemed the "Irregular Solar System bodies" was already "used". Since I was thinking in submiting a proposal for the same idea, I decided to ask here if is there the possibility that two students are selected to the same proposal. Is there? Anyway, I am also interested in the other idea, "Satellite and ring shadows on parent planets" (and, actually, right now, I intend to submit a proposal for this idea). But I think I didn't understand some points: 1 - When you say "satellites and rings", you are talking only about the planets from the Solar system, right? 2 - should I take into account only the light coming from the sun, when generating a shadow for a planet? (should I suppose that the light coming from the other starts is "meaningless"?) 3 - You expect me to choose/develop a proper algorithm to make the satellites and rings cast the proper shadow, right? (or is there already a well-known algorithm that is really good for that?) 4 - I couldn't find yet in the code, but I think the answer must be easy enough: Can I suppose that the planets are spheroids? (I believe that the answer is "yes", because of the other referred idea) I will take a good look at the code, define a timeline and submit a proposal. I'd like to know also if you are "rushing the students" (i.e., prefer that they submit as soon as possible) or if I can wait some more time. I'm not sure if I can change the proposal after submitting and I'm a little afraid of submitting and then regreting that I didn't write something. Finally, sorry for the long e-mail and my bad english. Thanks in advance... [1] http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012 -- John Gamboa rabanetescebolas.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
