Hi,
TL;DR: please vote for eXoCraft at
https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/vote
(We only need a few hundred votes to get to the final five: one vote
per person per day until the end of the week; the team with most votes
gets an invitation to NASA.)
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Background:
It all started with a wonderful BachoTeX conference and users
frustrated by inaccurate maps and unable to find their huts after the
bonfire was over at 3 am.
http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/
So some people took the GPS, mapped the area and entered the data into
OpenStreetMaps.
Some years back I challenged Hans to let ConTeXt draw a nice map using
lua & xml & metapost combined.
Here's the result:
http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014/programme.shtml
http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2014/talks/2014-09-12-mojca-maps/OpenStreetMaps_with_ConTeXt.pdf
Meanwhile we also came up with
http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/bachotex-promo/bachotex-site-color.png
This year we took the existing map-generating sources to the next
level. Since Hans' nephew is a great lover of MineCraft, we helped him
build the foundations for creating a geographically accurate BachoTeX
map in Minecraft while enjoying the wonderful conference.
Using ConTeXt of course!
(Preview is available here:
https://github.com/mojca/bachotex-maps/tree/master/minecraft/google-maps/bachotex,
but you need to clone the project first to view in offline and please
note that the map project is not finished yet.)
Now, this last step has only been possible due to some wonderful
team-mates and an event that happened one week before BachoTeX. This
was the team effort:
https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/solar-system/open-world-generation-using-nasa-mars-and-vesta-data/projects/vesta-craft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmM1DqG4dTE
The project actually got us to the top-25 in the world and the winner
(based solely on the number of votes) gets a trip to NASA. I'm not
claiming that what we could learn and do in one day and a half is
super special, but we would be grateful for any votes ...
Thank you,
Mojca
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