Hi folks,
I am happy to know that the new design does not leave you indifferent
Thank you for all your comments, including both positive and negative.
Also, it's nice to see that PI already adopted "The Inverted Razor Blade" principle with it's open architecture and expandability (see the second post in archives for 2009 by Thom Hogan, his writing for Nikon, but the principle of "inverted razor" is general).
This is an extremely smart comparison. Indeed, PixInsight's open architecture is the only way to guarantee that we'll have a live and evolving project; this has been my intention since the beginning. Please read FAQ #1.4 on the new
Product FAQ page.
non-astronomical thumbnails washing out idea of PI core purpose.
PixInsight is more than an astronomical image processing package. It is even more than a software package. The front page animation is not an advertising banner. It tries to communicate the
soul of PixInsight.
The animation shows a diverse collection of natural objects including astronomical objects, plants, minerals, some animals, and landscapes. This is a small set of images that I personally like for many reasons. It discloses a part of me, and this is good because I am the guy behind PixInsight. Nature is freedom, passion and force, and PixInsight wants to give you the freedom, the passion and the force necessary to work on your dreams, that is on your images.
BTW, last year Juan mentioned about possible CUDA support in PI.
IMHO, this will be BOMB with release of NVIDIA Fermi in several months.
My intention is to start playing seriously with CUDA as soon as possible. The problem here is my work load, as usual. There are many priorities, some of them much more important and urgent than implementing CUDA support in PixInsight. But of course, no doubt that GPU support is highly desirable.
main menu on the right side of screen looks very... strange
* it should not scroll up out of the screen during scrolling on "long" pages. It should be "pinned" to screen and available 100% of time.
The main menu is not fixed because it does not contain links relevant to the current page. It provides links relevant to the website as a whole, and also sometimes a few links whose intention is to show the current page's structure, more as a "remainder" of the document's contents than as an actual index. Most websites use the same layout —main menus and site navigation bars that scroll with the page— for the same functional reasons.
When a table of contents is relevant to the current document, it is a fixed element that does not scroll with the document. I have implemented this in all tutorials and processing examples.
And the company, ironically, named Pleiades Astrophoto
Our initial attempt was Pleiades Software. Unfortunately, pleiades-software.com already exists, as well as a company with the same name on the US. We chosen Pleiades Astrophoto mainly for that reason.
to position PI as one of many "general image processing packages"
Not my intention, by no means. Not because it would be difficult to compete as a "general" package, but because it would be extremely boring. I hate boring things.
