CosmoCoffee

This is to announce a new program for Mac OS X which may be of interest.

CMBview is a program to view HEALPix FITS files on an Open-GL rendered sphere.
Notable features include:

• interactive rotating and zooming with the mouse
• anti-aliased graphics
• a histogram display and GUI for color remapping

The program should work fine on both Mac OS X Panther and Tiger.
CMBview is distributed under the GPL. The Xcode source is available at the website.
Please let me know if you have any comments,

Jamie Portsmouth

Does it rely on anything MAC OSX specific? Will it compile (with some massaging) on a linux box?

No, it won't compile on Linux. It's written in Cocoa which is a Mac OS X API.

But on Linux there is GNUstep, which is quite similar to Cocoa, which might make a port do-able.

Jamie Portsmouth wrote:No, it won't compile on Linux. It's written in Cocoa which is a Mac OS X API.

But on Linux there is GNUstep, which is quite similar to Cocoa, which might make a port do-able.

Under Linux you can also use SkyViewer

By the the way I tested it under Panther (10.3.9) and it worked fine. Making the view window to large (~1200x1200) seems to prevent any further rotation of the sphere but resizing it down fixes the problem.

-Michele