... Class . ... public class FloodFiller . ... This class, which does flood filling, is used by the floodFill() macro function and by the particle analyzer The Wikipedia at "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill" has a good description of the algorithm used here as well as examples in C and Java. ... Method Detail public boolean fill (int x, int y) . Does a 4-connected flood fill using the current fill/draw value, which is defined by ImageProcessor.setValue(). public boolean fill8 (int x, int y) . ...

... Archives . ... PyIMSL is a collection of Python wrappers to the math and statistical algorithms in the IMSL C Numerical Library [ 1 ] . ... Upon knowing that Python is very favored among astronomers ( click here to see the slog posts about Python ) and that limits exist in Numerical Recipes (I didn?t check the latest version published last year, though), probably IMSL is useful for mathematical and statistical analysis for astronomers. ... Tags: IMSL , Python . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Sequence of four video frames captured at 01:05 BST at Armagh Observatory on the night of the 24/25th July 2013, showing the onset, development and demise of the sprite. ... Unlike common lightning discharges, which often jump between clouds or between the clouds and the ground, sprites are associated with similarly powerful electrical fields that occur high above the clouds of the EarthтАЩs atmosphere. ...

Daniel Altschuler receives the Andrew Gemant Award 2010 . T he 2010 Andrew Gemant Award 2010 was presented to Dr. Daniel Altschuler for his decades of work bringing the excitement and beauty of physics and astronomy to the 4 million people of Puerto Rico, through his creation of The Angel Ramos Foundation Visitor Center at the Arecibo Observatory, his books and his own translations of them into Spanish, and through his popular articles, blog, and workshops for teachers and journalists. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The order in which libraries to link to are passed to the linker is important . ... Many libraries use the GNU Autoconf/Automake build toolchain. ... Run the ./configure script, which looks for the various programs and libraries that the package needs . ... The simplest way is to run ./configure and make note of any complaints about missing programs or libraries that it reports. ... Some notes on the GNU toolchain . ... Passing options to configure . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Shadowy spacecraft: OTV 1 on its return to Earth after its secret mission. ... For more up to date information on the X-37, see X-37: Speculation, Secrets and Espionage .) ... ItтАЩs the successor of the White Knight and both have been used in the past to test drop the X-37, X-37B and Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo. ... Once deployed into space the spacecraft began its orbit of the Earth which lasted until 3 December 2010. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > SSL/TLS . ... As an introduction this chapter is aimed at readers who are familiar with the Web, HTTP, and Apache, but are not security experts. ... Once in this form, the message can only be decrypted by using a secret key. ... SSL provides for secure communication between client and server by allowing mutual authentication, the use of digital signatures for integrity and encryption for privacy. ... SSL v2.0 . ...

God Science Forum Message . ... God and Science | ... God And Reality . ... The idea, that we are in a virtual reality, has been spreading more quickly since 1993. ... So if it were the case that this were a virtual reality, then it would logically follow that there is an originator of this virtual reality. ... However that might be, the idea that this is a virtual reality seems to have the potential of explaining many circumstances which have otherwise baffled us. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

... It's also crucial for many projects to be able to justify why you need to observe a given number of targets. ... A "statistic" is technically just such a number, derived from some vast pile of data, which hopefully tells us something interesting. ... Measure this "statistic" from your data. ... Set this to be a random number drawn from a Poisson distribution with mean 1208x1.01=1220.08. ... Create another array, and fill it with Gaussian random numbers with mean 0 and standard deviation 20. ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano Ludy D'Angelo 609-737-6518 (609) 882-9336 ... Georgette and Bob North Membership Meeting Minutes March 11, 2008 Observatory: Dedicated AAAP member Gene Ramsey will relinquish has position as Observatory Co-Chairman for health reasons. ...