http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/ astro-viz Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:30:57 GMT kimberlykowal http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/343 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/343 Dear Colleagues, The Chandra X-ray Center is pleased to announce a beta version of PinpointWCS. PinpointWCS simplifies retrieval of world coordinate system Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:05:43 GMT Joel Primack http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/342 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/342 Dear Frank, Please consider the following videos of a merger between two disk galaxies, by Patrik Jonsson, Greg Novak, and myself to play in between the 6 ten Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:15:26 GMT Frank Summers http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/341 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/341 My last email listed the speakers for the special session. In between the 6 ten minute talks, we plan to play other astronomy visualizations by the folks on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:34:17 GMT Frank Summers http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/340 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/340 Folks, My apologies I've been distracted by Hubble EROs and the Imax film work and ignored the special session stuff. First, the speakers for the session are Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:13:45 GMT Frank Summers http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/339 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/339 Astro-Viz folks, Many of you were at Astro-Viz '09 in San Francisco where we discussed having a special session at the upcoming AAS meeting. The idea was to Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:00:43 GMT Edna DeVore http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/337 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/337 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Centers Learning Technologies Project Office (LTPO) has released a Cooperative Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:11:51 GMT Richard S. Wright Jr. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/336 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/336 Software Bisque is using similar technology to accelerate asteroid orbital elements in the next version of Seeker. We will be demonstrating this next week at Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:24:44 GMT Robert Hurt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/335 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/335 Hello metadata enthusiasts, While it's been some time since we've sent out any announcements on the Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project and the Astronomy Tue, 19 May 2009 17:40:21 GMT Frank Summers http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/333 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/333 We had a talk by the NVIDIA folks at Astro-Viz 09. One technology they are pushing is CUDA, which can be used in code to utilize the GPU instead of the CPU. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:50:23 GMT Tom Casey http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/330 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/330 We have just added new case histories to our web site showing three astronomy visualizations we produced while working with Skyworks Digital (Dana Berry). A Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:15:32 GMT Ryan Wyatt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/329 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/329 Thanks to everybody who has registered already. If you have already registered for the conference, you should soon receive an email confirming your Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:02:27 GMT Ryan Wyatt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/328 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/328 Just a reminder about the pre-workshop concert in Walnut Creek. The California Symphony has requested that we reserve our seats today, so you should register Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:11:01 GMT Frank Summers http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/327 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/327 Allosphere demo at TED: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/15/2017209&art_pos=3 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:52:38 GMT Ryan Wyatt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/326 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/326 Well, actually, it opened yesterday, as some observant folks noted. Now through next Friday, 24 April, you can register for the conference online: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:03:54 GMT Ryan Wyatt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/325 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astro-viz/message/325 When the registration pages go online tomorrow, you'll be able to register (and pay, of course) for the workshop, and you'll also be able to submit paper