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SOCiS 2014 is over

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 summer I worked on the following things:
  • KMLs can be used with <PhotoOverlay> tags. Marble can handle them (on any planet) and mark them on the map with an icon specified by its style.
  • You can click on these marks, it will cause a popup like what will appear when you click on a placemark but it will contain a little preview image. This popup has other special abilities too. It comes with a new button in the toolbar, which will create a new session for you. This will display your image. So just search for this button:
  • It is going to start a new session. This was an other fruit of this summer. I have put down the basics for session handling so you can return to your previous session after viewing a panorama. Just search for the "Close Session" button on the left. I'm sure more improvements will arrive in time.
  • And don't forget an other importent thing: when you opened a panorama you can open a new KML which will place its content in your panorama so you can achieve an effect like in Google's Streetview.
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