FOSSdome

An update on what I've been up to, followed by some useful sources for open textbooks. Links mentioned in the episode: The Changelog: Open source goes to Mars  https://changelog.com/podcast/440  Learning with Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by Allen Downey   https://greenteapress.com/wp/learning-with-python/ Python for Everybody: Exploring Data in Python 3 by Chuck Severance   https://www.py4e.com/book Eloquent JavaScript   https://eloquentjavascript.net/ MIT OpenCourseWare  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/ OpenStax  https://openstax.org/subjects Milne Open Textbooks  https://milneopentextbooks.org/ The Missing  Link  https://milneopentextbooks.org/the-missing-link-an-introduction-to-web-development-and-programming/ American Institute of Mathematics  https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/ Games and Puzzles  http://www.artofmathematics.org/books/games-and-puzzles Green Tea Press  https://greenteapress.com/wp/ OER Commons  https://www.oercommons.org/ Open Textbooks Library  https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ Introduction to Permaculture  https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introduction-to-permaculture Project Gutenberg   https://www.gutenberg.org/

Links mentioned in the episode: NASA 3D resources   https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/  The Celestia Motherlode   http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/  ESO   https://www.eso.org/public/ ESA/Hubble   https://esahubble.org/ NOIRlab   https://noirlab.edu/public/ NASA Science Visualization Studio   https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA Open Data Portal   https://data.nasa.gov/  NASA Photojournal   http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov Planetary Data System   https://pds.nasa.gov/ NOAA Science on a Sphere   http://www.sos.noaa.gov/Datasets USGS Apollo panoramas   http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/moon-apollo-landing-panoramas The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth   http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques (DAMIT)   https://astro.troja.mff.cuni.cz/projects/damit/ OpenClipArt.org   https://openclipart.org OpenGameArt.org  https://opengameart.org/ HDRI haven   https://hdrihaven.com/ TextureHaven   https://texturehaven.com/ 3DModelHaven   https://3dmodelhaven.com/

This week I followed a rabbit hole that led me to rediscover some projects I'd previously not liked, but now they have the potential to be what I need. Links from the episode: unfa channel   https://www.youtube.com/user/unfa00 TechHut channel   https://www.youtube.com/user/TechHutus TechHut top 10 Linux apps  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVJydgFKWo Vokoscreen  https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG KdenLive  https://kdenlive.org/en/ KDE   https://kde.org/ OpenShot Video Editor   https://www.openshot.org/ ShotCut  https://www.shotcut.org/ Blender  https://www.blender.org/ Natron  https://natrongithub.github.io/

And that episode title sounds better than the one I used in the recording. In any case, this week is some rambling from me in which I complain about stuff and complain about complaining about stuff some insightful thoughts on some of the ups and downs of using FOSS. Links to software projects mentioned: POV-ray  https://www.povray.org/ Blender  https://www.blender.org/ Gimp  https://www.gimp.org/ Krita  https://krita.org/ Inkscape  https://inkscape.org/ Audacity  https://www.audacityteam.org/ Olive  https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ Natron  https://natrongithub.github.io/  Hugin  http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ QGIS  https://www.qgis.org/ OpenSpace  https://www.openspaceproject.com WWT  https://worldwidetelescope.org/home/

This week I chat about some interesting tools and tutorials for using Blender for non-visualization Astronomy stuff. Links for this week: Cycles X   https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/ Fulldome Production With Blender https://github.com/waystar/2019-Blender-Workshop-Materials How to make planets in Blender   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6224Wisxwxc Darkfall Shader Library intro  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbj20u53uW8 The Shader Library   https://darkfallblender.blogspot.com/p/the-shader-library.html Mark Kingsnorth original nebula tutorial (files no longer available, but still good to read) http://www.markkingsnorth.com/2017/01/31/blender-nebula-group-node-tutorial-download/ Mark Kingsnorth Nebula Generator on BlenderMarket https://blendermarket.com/products/nebula-generator 3D Star Map (link to demo version and store in description)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRshK5qhJDA Black Hole art from Void_SW on BlenderNation https://www.blendernation.com/2021/05/04/hand-picked-blender-art-4/ Create a Black Hole in Blender - Iridesium   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5naMFeWTBeY Procedural Galaxies in Blender 2.91!  -CBaileyFilm   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQXI5KownU Procedural Solar Flare Shader Blender Tutorial!  - CBaileyFilm   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9anTO45bCM Mustafar Procedural Lava Planet Shader  - CBaileyFilm   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCztNvPGq1w

Another update and a look at some interesting resources for learning to take astronomy data into Blender for visualization. It's how the magic gets made! AstroBlend   https://www.astroblend.com/ AstroBlend   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUcA4vXe2IPdnCjBslj6XQ AstroBlend at 2015 Blender Conference   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vY-sl1oXME Dr. Jill Naiman   https://www.astronaiman.com/ Dr. Brian Kent   https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bkent/blender/ Matías Gárate’s  Blender & Astronomy Tutorial. Using Voxel Data for 3D visualization    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjFmkbKBKd0WuhhbR2MGPXZyWW7TPcNSw

An update on what I've been up to and then checking out two more pieces of open source astronomy software. Links for this episode: Loading NASA Perseverance and Ingenuity models into Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36u94eMMHuU Sunset Meditation show from Brown Planetarium https://www.bsu.edu/web/planetarium/productions-and-show-leasing#accordion_sunsetmeditation Mark Kingsnorth Nebula Generator for Blender https://blendermarket.com/products/nebula-generator Cartes du Ciel https://www.ap-i.net/skychart//en/start Virtual Moon Atlas https://ap-i.net/avl/start

A look at free and open source desktop planetarium software KStars, and why it deserves a a spot on the hard drive. Links for this episode: KStars https://edu.kde.org/kstars/ KStars user docs https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kstars/kstars/index.html Inkscape https://inkscape.org/ SVG format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics

Links mentioned in the episode: Prairie Skies Spotlight on Galaxies April 2 https://youtu.be/dh0biQnJmFQ ESASky https://sky.esa.int/ ESASky documentation https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-help "How to Use ESASky" https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-how-to ESASky educational activities https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-for-education Aladin Sky Atlas https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ Aladin Lite API documentation https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/doc/API/ Aladin Lite API examples https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/doc/API/examples/ Aladin tutorial on embedding chart https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/doc/tutorials/interactive-finding-chart/ NOIRLab Arp 199 image page https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab1912a/