[AstroPy] AstroPy Digest, Vol 58, Issue 16

Bridgman, William T. William.T.Bridgman at nasa.gov
Tue Jun 14 16:20:17 EDT 2011


I've been following this while trying to find out how my NASA  
contractor status might impact how I can contribute to this effort.

However, I'd like to make the point that for a lot of modern  
visualization efforts that we do at the SVS for general public  
outreach, observations and simulations can be integrated into a single  
viz more easily if the tools can play nice together.  I have a strong  
interest in this area of the development.

Here's some items where I had to integrate very diverse datasets to  
generate the final product:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3316
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3743
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/Series/SolarDynamo.html

I used numpy, scipy, & pyfits for much of it, but also had to convert  
datasets to objects & texture with tools like VTK & PIL.

If there is a way to have the simulation and observation tools playing  
nice together, it would simplify outreach (and consequently funding)  
efforts.

Tom

On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:

>
> For what it's worth, in our community we have a large buy-in for
> mercurial (with a number of extensions and value-adds that directly
> call the API).  I recognize that the observer and simulation
> communities do not necessarily need as much direct cross-talk as
> intra-community collaborations, but I felt I should put this out
> there.
>
> -Matt

--
Dr. William T."Tom" Bridgman               Scientific Visualization  
Studio
Global Science & Technology, Inc.          NASA/Goddard Space Flight  
Center
Email: William.T.Bridgman at nasa.gov         Code 610.3
Phone: 301-286-1346                        Greenbelt, MD 20771
FAX:   301-286-1634                        http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/




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