pgabor's blog

First of all I would like to say thank you, to ESA and to Marble for this great opportunity. It was fun! I would like to say thank you especially to Torsten Rahn who guided me through the summer and to other people who helped me. I also want to thank to Maxime Perrotin who organized this and to everybody who helped in it. And now, about my work in the summer: As you may now I worked on a new feature in Marble, supporting panoramas. I think everybody can imagine what this means. You can view for example panorama photos taken by rovers on Mars in Marble. Here is a little showcase: But if you want, you can use it for other purposes too: And now more technical informations about my work. I can split up my work to two big parts: reading, exploring, understanding the code and writing, plotting, debugging the code. A lot of time I have to refactor my code because it needed to be more similar in style and in concept to the existing codebase, but I learned a lot from it. In the s...

I'm currently participating in SOCIS and I code for Marble . My task is to implement a usable image and panorama viewer based on the standards of the kml language. More precisely I work on the correct handling of the <PhotoOverlay> tag. My plan is to follow the example of Google Earth, so I dropped the old PhotoOverlay visualisation method of Marble (just drawing the image to the screen) and approached the problem from a different direction. A PhotoOverlay is marked with a clickable placemark which shows a little popup information dialog when you click on it now. It displays the preview of the image and some information which can be specified under a <PhotoOverlay> object like name, description and location. Here are some screenshots: I used the content of http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov to create the screenshots. For next, I will improve this with actually opening the photo, and visualising it in Marble as a zoomable, pannable plain image. To be continu...