</h2>
</div>
<div class="content">
- <p class="msg">This site is currently under construction.</p>
- <p class="msg" style="font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal;">If I had an animated GIF of a guy with a shovel, I would put it here.</p>
+ <!--
+ <p class="msg">This site is currently under construction.</p>
+ <p class="msg" style="font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal;">If I had an animated GIF of a guy with a shovel, I would put it here.</p>
+ -->
<% page->print(); %>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
<% /* Normal Pages */ %>
<% void print_about(void) { %>
<p class="intro">
- To the best of my knowledge, all the weather related programs currently
- available for Linux are either very simple and provide little
- meteorological information or are huge, ancient, or proprietary beasts
- created for the National Weather Service. AWeather is made to fill the
- gap by providing lots of weather information while still using standard
- free software practices. As such, the research focus of this software
- is weather, not creative way to write software.
+ AWeather is a free/open source application which has been
+ designed to integrate and visualize high-quality meteorological
+ data using an interactive Virtual Globe interface suitable for
+ a wide range of users including weather enthusiasts, academics,
+ and professionals.
+
+ It is designed to provide more information than is typically
+ available from weather widgets and simple desktop applications.
+ At the same time, it strives to be simpler and easier to use
+ than existing meteorological software packages such as GEMPAK
+ and IDV.
</p>
<hr />
- <h2>Intended Features</h2>
+ <h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>High quality data sources
(Level-II archive, etc)</li>
- <li>3D Volume browser (todo)</li>
- <li>GTK+ User Interface</li>
+ <li>3D Volume browser</li>
+ <li>Storm motion animations (todo)</li>
<li>API for algorithms
(vortex/hail signatures, rain-rate, etc)
(todo)</li>
- <li>Other?</li>
+ <li>Other? (open to suggestions)</li>
</ul>
- <h2>Status</h2>
- <p class="quote">Now that it's spring again, progress on AWeather is continuing.</p>
<h3>Working</h3>
<ul>
- <li>Level-II and Conus NEXRAD imagery</li>
- <li>Real-time and offline mode</li>
+ <li>High quality data sources<ul>
+ <li>Level-II archives</li>
+ <li>Conus NEXRAD imagery</li>
+ <li>Volume display</li>
+ </ul></li>
<li>Virtual Globe base rendering<ul>
<li>Including terrain, satellite, and map imagery</li>
</ul></li>
+ <li>Real-time and offline mode</li>
<li>Auto-updating</li>
- <li>volume display</li>
+ <li>Fullscreen mode</li>
</ul>
- <h3>Todo</h3>
+ <h3>Planned</h3>
<ul>
<li>Vertical cross sections</li>
<li>Derived NEXRAD data (storm relative motion, echo tops, compost reflective, etc)</li>
<% } %>
<% void print_news(void) { %>
+ <p class="quote">Now that it's spring again, progress on AWeather is continuing.</p>
<dl class="news">
+ <dt>2011-06-19</dt>
+ <dd>
+ AWeather 0.5 released: <ul>
+ <li>Support for volume rendering (isosurfaces)</li>
+ <li>Automatically update</li>
+ <li>Fullscreen mode</li>
+ <li>Dropped GtkGLExt</li>
+ </ul>
+ Forked RSL:<ul>
+ <li>Added additional radars</li>
+ <li>Fixed lots of bugs</li>
+ <li>General code cleanup</li>
+ <li>Available from <a href="files/">files</a> directory
+ and <a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">git</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
<dt>2011-06-13</dt>
<dd>Started work on this new website. Lots of progress in AWeather as well:<ul>
<li>Merged support for isosurfaces to the main branch (Finally!)</li>
<% } %>
<% void print_screenshots(void) { %>
- <br />
<p>
- AWeather provides consistent user interface that allows the
+ AWeather provides a consistent user interface that allows the
user to zoom in from a high level view of the entire Earth down
to regional and microscale views.
</p>
<% } %>
<% void print_download(void) { %>
- <h2>Stable release</h2>
+ <h2>Stable releases</h2>
<p class="note">
While AWeather won't be considered stable until version 1.0,<br />
these are as close to stable as you can get until then
<ul>
<li class="linux"><dl class="inline">
<dt>Source code</dt>
- <dd><a href="files/aweather-0.4.2.tar.gz">aweather-0.4.2.tar.gz</a></dd>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz">aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz</a></dd>
<dt>Gentoo</dt>
<dd>Emerge <span class="code">sci-geosciences/aweather</span> from the sunrise overlay</dd>
</dl></li>
<li class="windows"><dl class="inline">
<dt>Windows</dt>
- <dd><a href="files/aweather-0.4.2-gtk.exe">aweather-0.4.2-gtk.exe</a></dd>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe</a></dd>
- <dt>Update only</dt>
- <dd><a href="files/aweather-0.4.2.exe">aweather-0.4.2.exe</a></dd>
+ <dt>Without GTK</dt>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe</a> (Use this if you know what you're doing)</dd>
+ </dl></li>
+ <li class="macos" style="padding-top: .8em; padding-bottom: .8em"><dl class="inline">
+ <dt>Mac OSX</dt>
+ <dd>Coming soon (hopefully)</dd>
</dl></li>
- <li class="macos" style="padding-top: .8em; padding-bottom: .8em">
- Coming soon (hopefully)
- </li>
</ul>
<h2>Unstable releases</h2>
<p class="note">Pre-releases, betas, and other hazardous software</p>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<p>Check out the <a href="files">files</a> directory for any potential updates</p>
- <p>Pre-releases are labeled with a -p0 and are mainly build for testing the Windows packages</p>
+ <p>Pre-releases are labeled with a -p0 and are mainly built for testing the Windows packages</p>
</div>
<h2>Development code</h2>
<p class="note">
- Development code is available from Git, and from gitweb
- (<a href="/git/?=proj/aweather">AWeather</a>,
- <a href="/git/?=proj/grits">Grits</a>,
- <a href="/git/?=~spenceal/rsl">RSL</a>)
+ Development code is available from Git, and gitweb
+ (<a href="/git/?p=proj/aweather">AWeather</a>,
+ <a href="/git/?p=proj/grits">Grits</a>,
+ <a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">RSL</a>)
</p>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
<div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/aweather</div>
<h2>Bug report and feature requests</h2>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
- <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues/new">New issue</a></p>
- <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues">Open issues</a></p>
+ <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues">List of current issues</a></p>
+ <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues/new">Add a new issue</a></p>
</div>
<h2>How to contribute?</h2>
<li>Make better logo!</li>
</ul>
- <h2>Building AWeather</h2>
- <p class="note">See the <a href="code/projects/aweather/wiki/Install">install</a> wiki page for more details</p>
- <ul>
- <li>AWeather has direct dependencies on Grits, and RSL, among other things.</li>
- <li>Currently building AWeather will require the exact same version of
- Grits to be installed, but this may change in the near future as
- the software stabilizes.</li>
- </ul>
-
<h2>Architecture Overview</h2>
<ul>
<li>Built on top of GObject and GTK+</li>
- <li>Uses the Grits "Virtual Globe" library for much of the graphics work.<br />
- Grits also provides some other generic functionality and a plugin API.</li>
+ <li>Uses the <a href="grits">Grits</a> "Virtual Globe" library<ul>
+ <li>Handles most of the graphics work using OpenGL for rendering</li>
+ <li>Provides some other generic functionality, such as data access</li>
+ <li>Also provides the plugins API used by AWeather</li>
+ </ul></li>
<li>AWeather itself is a front-end for grits along with a
- bundle of weather related plugins.</li>
+ bundle of weather related plugins</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>Building AWeather</h2>
+ <p class="note">See the <a href="code/projects/aweather/wiki/Install">install</a> wiki page for more details</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>AWeather has direct dependencies on Grits, RSL, among other things</li>
+ <li>Currently building and running AWeather will require the
+ exact same version of Grits to be installed<br />
+ (This may change in the near future as the software stabilizes)</li>
</ul>
<% } %>
<% void print_grits(void) { %>
- <h1>Grits</h1>
<p>Grits is a Virtual Globe library developed along side AWeather, but
can be used by other programs as well.</p>
<p>It is differentiated from other Virtual Globes such as Google Earth,
NASA World Wind, and KDE Marble in that it is developed as a library
that is used by other programs, such as AWeather, rather than
providing a user interface that is used directly.</p>
+ <hr />
<ul class="gallery">
<li>
<% print_screen("grits"); %>
</dl>
<% } %>
-<% void print_legal(void) { %>
- <h1>Legal</h1>
-<% } %>
-
<% /* Special Pages */ %>
<% void print_index(void) { %>
<p class="intro">
AWeather is designed to be an advanced weather program which is
designed to be used by weather enthusiasts. AWeather is not
- another weather dockapp that simply displays a pre-computed
- forecast. It is designed to be an easy to use program that
- integrates a variety of weather data in simple unified
- interface; see features for more details.
+ another weather dockapp that displays a pre-computed forecast.
+ It is designed to be an easy to use program that integrates a
+ variety of weather data in simple unified interface; see
+ <a href="features">features</a> for more details.
</p>
<hr />
- <% print_screen("meso"); %>
<div class="buttons">
- <a class="download" href="">
- <span>Download</span>
- <span>AWeather 0.5-p0 source</span>
- <img src="images/dl-arrow.png" alt="Download" />
- </a>
- <a class="download" href="">
+ <a class="download" href="download">
<span>Download</span>
- <span>AWeather 0.5-p0 source</span>
+ <span>AWeather <%= VERSION %></span>
<img src="images/dl-arrow.png" alt="Download" />
</a>
</div>
- <b>Features:</b>
+ <% print_screen("meso"); %>
<ul>
- <li>Detailed Level-II radar</li>
- <li>3D volume rendering</li>
- <li>Dual-pole support</li>
+ <li>Detailed Level-II radar<ul>
+ <li>3D volume rendering</li>
+ <li>Dual-pole support</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Online and offline modes<ul>
+ <li>Data caching</li>
+ <li>Automatic updating</li>
+ </ul></li>
<li>Surface and map overlays</li>
<li>Terrain rendering</li>
- <li>Online and offline modes with
- caching and automatic updating</li>
</ul>
<% } %>
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