FOSSdome Waylena McCully

A few updates and some cool Chandra X-ray Observatory stuff!



Links mentioned in the episode:



Museum & Informal Education Alliance https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/



Kim Arcand https://www.kimarcand.com/



Walking Among the Stars (VR stuff) https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/vr/



Chandra 3D models https://3d.si.edu/collections/Chandra



PPA Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-pfVOHnkvAV_fdnKLdqzwA/videos



Stellarium Landscape zip files for easy installation https://github.com/waystar/StellariumLandscapes/releases/tag/v1.1

An update on what I've been up to, followed by some useful sources for open textbooks.



Links mentioned in the episode:



The Changelog: Open source goes to Mars  https://changelog.com/podcast/440 



Learning with Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by Allen Downey   https://greenteapress.com/wp/learning-with-python/



Python for Everybody: Exploring Data in Python 3 by Chuck Severance   https://www.py4e.com/book



Eloquent JavaScript   https://eloquentjavascript.net/



MIT OpenCourseWare  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/



OpenStax  https://openstax.org/subjects



Milne Open Textbooks  https://milneopentextbooks.org/



The Missing  Link  https://milneopentextbooks.org/the-missing-link-an-introduction-to-web-development-and-programming/



American Institute of Mathematics  https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/



Games and Puzzles  http://www.artofmathematics.org/books/games-and-puzzles



Green Tea Press  https://greenteapress.com/wp/



OER Commons  https://www.oercommons.org/



Open Textbooks Library  https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/



Introduction to Permaculture  https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introduction-to-permaculture



Project Gutenberg   https://www.gutenberg.org/

Links mentioned in the episode:



NASA 3D resources   https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/ 



The Celestia Motherlode   http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ 



ESO   https://www.eso.org/public/



ESA/Hubble   https://esahubble.org/



NOIRlab   https://noirlab.edu/public/



NASA Science Visualization Studio   https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov



NASA Open Data Portal   https://data.nasa.gov/ 



NASA Photojournal   http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov



Planetary Data System   https://pds.nasa.gov/



NOAA Science on a Sphere   http://www.sos.noaa.gov/Datasets



USGS Apollo panoramas   http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-landing-panoramas



The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth   http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/



Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT)   https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/



OpenClipArt.org   https://openclipart.org



OpenGameArt.org  https://opengameart.org/



HDRI haven   https://hdrihaven.com/



TextureHaven   https://texturehaven.com/



3DModelHaven   https://3dmodelhaven.com/

This week I followed a rabbit hole that led me to rediscover some projects I'd previously not liked, but now they have the potential to be what I need.



Links from the episode:



unfa channel   https://www.youtube.com/user/unfa00



TechHut channel   https://www.youtube.com/user/TechHutus



TechHut top 10 Linux apps  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVJydgFKWo



Vokoscreen  https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG



KdenLive  https://kdenlive.org/en/



KDE   https://kde.org/



OpenShot Video Editor   https://www.openshot.org/



ShotCut  https://www.shotcut.org/



Blender  https://www.blender.org/



Natron  https://natrongithub.github.io/

And that episode title sounds better than the one I used in the recording. In any case, this week is some rambling from me in which I complain about stuff and complain about complaining about stuff some insightful thoughts on some of the ups and downs of using FOSS.



Links to software projects mentioned:



POV-ray  https://www.povray.org/



Blender  https://www.blender.org/



Gimp  https://www.gimp.org/



Krita  https://krita.org/



Inkscape  https://inkscape.org/



Audacity  https://www.audacityteam.org/



Olive  https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/



Natron  https://natrongithub.github.io/ 



Hugin  http://hugin.sourceforge.net/



QGIS  https://www.qgis.org/



OpenSpace  https://www.openspaceproject.com



WWT  https://worldwidetelescope.org/home/

This week I chat about some interesting tools and tutorials for using Blender for non-visualization Astronomy stuff.



Links for this week:



Cycles X   https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/



Fulldome Production With Blender https://github.com/waystar/2019-Blender-Workshop-Materials



How to make planets in Blender   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6224Wisxwxc



Darkfall Shader Library intro  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbj20u53uW8



The Shader Library   https://darkfallblender.blogspot.com/p/the-shader-library.html



Mark Kingsnorth original nebula tutorial (files no longer available, but still good to read) http://www.markkingsnorth.com/2017/01/31/blender-nebula-group-node-tutorial-download/



Mark Kingsnorth Nebula Generator on BlenderMarket https://blendermarket.com/products/nebula-generator



3D Star Map (link to demo version and store in description)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRshK5qhJDA



Black Hole art from Void_SW on BlenderNation https://www.blendernation.com/2021/05/04/hand-picked-blender-art-4/



Create a Black Hole in Blender - Iridesium   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5naMFeWTBeY



Procedural Galaxies in Blender 2.91!  -CBaileyFilm   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQXI5KownU



Procedural Solar Flare Shader Blender Tutorial!  - CBaileyFilm   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9anTO45bCM



Mustafar Procedural Lava Planet Shader  - CBaileyFilm   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCztNvPGq1w