[APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

[Tim Long]

WWT is a fantastic educational tool but it is not going to replace
things like AP, Starry Night, etc because it serves a different purpose.
Jonathan has a lot of infrastructure that he can take for granted, which
is part of the answer to "how do they do that?". When WWT was first
announced, the ASCOM web site collapsed under the strain of people
downloading the ASCOM platform.

--Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
[mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Paul Rodman
Sent: 20 February 2009 03:51
To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
Subject: [APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

I went to a talk today by Jonathan Fay of Microsoft Research in which  
he talked about and demonstrated World Wide Telescope. I am  
intimidated. I realise that it's probably many man-years of work by  
many professional developers, but it's so slick and fast that I am  
quite at a loss to figure out how they do it. Pity it's Windows-only.

I did get a few ideas for AP V3 though...

Paul R.

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