Not that I am aware of, and although some figures are quite interesting
and creative, I would not like them to be default, as some of them
disregard the placement of stars in the figures described since antiquity
(e.g., the "reversed" Greater Bear and Cetus), so they also conflict with
the default and any historical artwork.

There are what I would call "Stellarium default" constellation figures in
the "western" sky culture, plus a separate download for the H.A.Rey
figures. Of course you can copy the whole "western" directory into
"western_Rey", copy the Rey figures there, and rename the skyculture to
e.g. "western (Rey)" in info.ini.

A standard delivery of this duplicate directory with just one small text
file exchanged and else using the same artwork would increase download
size considerably, likely not what most users would welcome.
Alternatively, since Rey did not make artwork (as far as I can remember),
we could leave away all artwork from such a western variant.

Note that the figures are not standardized, and every atlas shows them
slightly different. So, we should then in the same sense provide "western
(Journal<1..n>)", "western (Atlas<1..m>)", "western (...)". Everybody can
create such files, and I would welcome them and would like to have them
available as separate downloads on the Stellarium website, so that users
are free to create/duplicate/adapt the default western according to their
needs and preferences.

The only standardized thing about constellations are the IAU boundaries.
Since last year or so, boundaries can be defined for other sky cultures,
but I have not seen this feature ever used, likely because there would not
be any standard boundaries between the constellations in non-western sky
cultures. If you look into European 18th/19th century atlases, some show
curved boundaries which would be interesting if combined with old artwork
for the same atlas, but which likely are quite hard to code.

G.

On Di, 12.11.2013, 22:32, Richard L Walker wrote:
> This is probably out of bounds, but is there any plan to make H.A. Rey's
> constellation diagrams standard with Stellarium?
>
>


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps
OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access
Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server.
Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel

Reply via email to