Last week I spent some time spend some time finishing and polishing the (programming) work 0f an MSc student (Rani Charisma Dewi), who did some work with Ilwis in the context of her MSc. With my assistance, she filled in a gap in the animations that had been there since about the time of the creation of the new animation system.
What to expect of Ilwis 3.8
Though Ilwis 3.8 is still some 3 weeks away it seems appropriate to recapitulate what can be expected of 3.8. This blog entry will not be a detailed description, that will come with the readme of 3.8. It is a relatively big release and if not for (internal) political reasons (don’t ask :p) I would have called it 4.0 or something.
I like Spheres
But the world is not a sphere. Sad panda face. So things become complicated when trying to project a 2D image (the map) on 3D surface (the not so sphere like Earth) and then back again to a 2D screen. I am not going to bore you here with the whole theory of projections, datums coordinate systems etc.. They are failry well described in the Ilwis help and there numerous sources on the internet that give more information about this.
Ilwis 4
Ilwis 3.8 is almost done (sigh, finally) and apart from some bug tracking I don’t expect significant changes anymore. I am not sure if I will release it before my own holidays ( after 2nd week of february) but we will see.
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