Bella’s Eve Tools

I’m in the planning/prototyping phase for an exploration app.  These are some links and notes mainly for myself:

http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.spheres.html#REF1

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Sphere-SphereIntersection.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ReuleauxTetrahedron.html

Anyway, the intention of the app (if I’m ever able to make it), is to determine the coverage given a particular placement of probes as well as possibly finding the best possible coverage.  It turns out that computational chemistry of all places has the most information on the strategies I’m considering using.  Although it might be closer to plain ol’ topology or advanced 3-d math - sadly, I’m currently lacking knowledge in these areas.  So there is much research and learnin’ to be done.

If you know much about spherical intersections and volume calculations with N spheres, drop me a line.   Hacking through all this myself is pretty tough so far.

Maltari and I have been poking at assets on and off for the last couple of weeks.  Minor changes and fixes mostly, but we’re also starting to play with some wallet and transactions information alongside the assets.  Maltari is playing with some sweet javascript chart generation code as well as just shoring up issues here and there.  If you use the nightly build, you’ll be seeing some random stuff show up and go away and possibly have a few things change in the database structure (most shouldn’t affect the core assets viewing).

We’re starting to track our bugs and feature desires a little bit on the trac homepage as well.

Note to self: I also really need to centralize my two copies of the assets code on nonninja so that people aren’t going to 2 different places.  We need to have a stable release copy as well that is guaranteed to work without weird stuff.

End randomness.

Haven’t been doing a ton of work on the apps.  They’re all running pretty well at the moment (barring an issue with me deleting some of the price median files).  I haven’t been playing a ton of Eve, but I am still watching the apps, making sure they are working, and might put some more work into them if I get a dash of inspiration.  Please let me know if you run across any issues in the apps.  I continue to check my Eve mail, comments here, and the E-O threads.