From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNCkR-0006RC-Ap for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:49:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F130E052B; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp06.msg.oleane.net (smtp06.msg.oleane.net [62.161.4.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B3DE052B for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp06.msg.oleane.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp06.msg.oleane.net (MTA-AV) with ESMTP id m17JnPcA019083 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:49:25 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.157] (mail.magellium.fr [81.252.207.82] (may be forged)) (authenticated) by smtp06.msg.oleane.net (MTA) with ESMTP id m17JnOud019079 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:49:24 +0100 Message-ID: <47AB60CC.7090807@magellium.fr> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:49:32 +0100 From: Redouane Boumghar Organization: Magellium User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070925) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] RFC: modeling software References: <20080207071352.GA20488@archimedes.lan> In-Reply-To: <20080207071352.GA20488@archimedes.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PFSI-Info: PMX 5.4.1.325704, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.2.7.113210 (no virus found) X-Archives-Salt: d1cfe443-1816-4ff5-abba-4d8ee2e0526a X-Archives-Hash: f7ad3c70085b4b8617d5590d9a1a5b64 Hello everyone, Justing, what do you mean by RFC ? Is that about Rational Function Camera or Rational Function Coefficient ? So you may need to model what a camera would see and I assume this can be part of an astrophysical project using a rational function model. But it seems you have to simulation nova stars effect on planetary motion, and is there a best way to do that ? Every little thing interacts with any little thing. In my opinion, what is usually done is that researchers code their model themselves in C/C++ (or other) using computional libraries and output files that can be visualized in 3D using tools as VTK and others. If you need animations and that you are ready to code a bit in python to interpret your data into an animation, then you may use blender (blender3d.org). If you have resolved the equations by hand, I assume your problem is only about multimedia generation ? Red. Justin Findlay wrote: > I'm doing some computational astrophysics research, specifically > modeling the effect of star novas on planetary motion and my problem is > that I don't know the best way to do this. > > The nature of this research consists of my extending a model already > developed by my advisor, and the problem is that I want to translate > this model into a simulation and I don't know what software to use. My > advisor has given me full discretion in using whatever tools I need, so > I thought I'd ask here since I don't know where else to ask. Since he > hasn't stipulated the use of any software to model the research I want > to take this opportunity to get experience with some of the FLOSS > projects out there. > > What software do you think would be most useful for this project? > > > Justin -- Redouane BOUMGHAR Physics, Remote Sensing and Digital Imagery Email: redouane.boumghar@magellium.fr -- gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org mailing list