ShiraPlayer Console and 1.8.0.2 Desktop is published
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hiraPlayer Console software is developed for desktop applications of ShiraPlayer to manage from Android Tablet device. The console application will greatly simplify the planetarium presentations.
You can find all functions of ShiraPlayer desktop's control interface in Console application.
"ShiraPlayer Console" requires Intranet access to control desktop application. It uses simple TCP connection.It does not require internet access for normal usage. Internet access is only required initially to verify the license.
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ShiraPlayer 1.8.0.0 bug fix & upgrade libraries version
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n this version many bugs are fixed. The Shira Player is based on Qt (Digia Company) libraries. Up to 1.8.0.0 version all ShiraPlayer versions used Qt 4.6.2 .Some problems were experienced on new operation systems (like windows 8.1) and on new display cards. These problems have been fixed after upgraded to Qt 5.3.
Below list includes all fix and development with this upgrade.
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ShiraPlayer Sky Writer Feature
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Would you like to draw on dome?
Now Shira Player has "Sky Writer" feature. With this property you can write or draw anything on dome freely. For more easy draw you can use Touch Screen display as control window.
The Shira Player 1.7.0 has published with Sky Writer function. Also some bugs are fixed and includes change about user interface.
ShiraPlayer Fine-Tune Distortion Tool
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Some of ShiraPlayer users (using with fisheye or spherical mirror) wanted features that will sensitize warping projector output. For this "Fine-Tune distortion tool" is added to ShiraPlayer to gain more true warped output. This feature is also in ShiraPlayer Pro (for multi-projector system) including blend operations.
"Fine-Tune tool" is based on texture mapping distortion operations.You can find code and information source link of texture warping and mapping below:
http://forum.openframeworks.cc/t/grid-mesh-warping/12883/5
http://www.pling.org.uk/cs/cgv.html
http://paulbourke.net/miscellaneous/lenscorrection/
http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/meshwarp/
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/teaching/cs4/www/graphics/Web/advanced_ogl.pdf (page 9-15)
http://www.it.hiof.no/~borres/j3d/explain/texture/p-texture.html
http://w3.impa.br/~morph/cd-morph/docs/software/warprt.htm
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"Custom data feature" for spherical mirror systems
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After 1.5.0 version is published some users reviews showed that spherical distortion quality is not so great. For example from The Sri Sathya Sai Space Theatre ( http://home.saispace.in/ ) Hari Nandakumar's review ( http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2013/10/sureyyasoft-shira-player-mini-review.html )
With Paul Bourke's technical support I have added "Use Custom Data" feature to ShiraPlayer. I would like to thank to him.
Shira Player 1.5.1 is published.
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