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Send message Joined: 9 Feb 08 Posts: 9 Credit: 473,130 RAC: 0 |
Hey gang, I realise that the guys working away in the back room can`t put a 3d representation of the Milky way map as we are redrawing it on the net, as that hopefully will have research value. But how about a totaliser to show the percentage coverage of the current sky survey that we have jointly completed so far ? It may speed up progress. Anu other suggestions to the site ? Regards all, Ivor Ivor My Webpage |
Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0 |
Hey gang, actually right now we're still getting the optimization process and modeling working correctly. what we're doing right now is fitting cylindrical shapes (streams of stars) in side a wedge of stars, accounting for a background distribution of other stars. when this is working correctly, we'll start doing multiple cylinders and wedges, and then fit the edges of the cylinders together. this should give us a full 3d model. nate would know more, so i'm forwarding this on to him. |
Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0 |
Geeze, send these people 2,000 plus stars and they are not satisfied ... :) Of course, that assumes that each task is one star ... Travis, the thrust of the question is that we do the work and are happy to do so, but, it becomes MEANINGFUL to the participant when they can see ACTUAL RESULTS ... IMHO, no project has effectively been able to do that yet. It is all data into a, ahem, black hole ... I could go on for hours, and I think, *I* believe, that the appalling rate of people leaving projects and BOINC is because of this very reason ... and a few others... All we go on is the unsupported word from the projects that "something" is actually coming out from their work ... science papers are nice ... but a picture is worth a thousand words ... I even proposed that the science database be made avaialble in some sort of data dump (export, zip file, or whatever) and let *US* help you ... we might be able to surprise you ... low risk, potentially a very high reward ... {edit}I know that a project that I could put in my gozintas and two days later see a difference in the comezouta ... where do you think I am going to apply a lot of my resources?{/edit} |
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