[mesa-users] mesa-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

Tue Dec 13 05:29:07 EST 2011

Dear All,

I have not seen the cool movie yet (can someone email the link) but I 
created a few movies a few years ago. It might be good to compare them 
to see how to improve such movies. The ones I created can be downloaded 
from this webpage:

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~hirschi/animation/anim.html

Since then, we have learnt how to produce movies in pdf (using latex) 
and other formats like mpeg.

Raphael

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>     1. Re: mesa release 3790 + a cool movie (Mike Zingale)
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>     3. Re: mesa release 3790 + a cool movie (Bill Paxton)
>     4. Re: [mesa-news] mesa release 3790 + a cool movie
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> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:47:04 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mike Zingale<mzingale at scotty.ess.sunysb.edu>
> Subject: Re: [mesa-users] mesa release 3790 + a cool movie
> To: Bill Paxton<paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu>
> Cc: "mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net users"
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> Bill/Josiah, indeed that is a nice movie, and one I am sure many of us
> will want to show in our Intro to Astronomy classes when we come upon
> stellar evolution.  On that note, is there any sort of organized effort
> toward MESA for Education, instead of research.  Perhaps providing an
> archive of nice movies of stellar evolution for use in classes would be a
> good start.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Bill Paxton wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Release notes will be found below, but I believe in eating dessert first,
>> so, here's something neat from Josiah Schwab<jwschwab at berkeley.edu>
>>
>> He used mesa/star plus tioga to make a movie from pdf's giving very high quality text and graphics.
>> Thank you, Josiah, for creating this and sharing it with us.  ;-)
>> I wish I'd had something like it when I was first learning about stellar evolution!!!!
>>
>>
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> Michael Zingale (mzingale at mail.astro.sunysb.edu)
> Assistant Professor
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> Dept. of Physics and Astronomy    office: ESS 440
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:44:18 -0600
> From: Richard Townsend<townsend at astro.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [mesa-users] mesa release 3790 + a cool movie
> To: mzingale at mail.astro.sunysb.edu
> Cc: "mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net users"
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> Hi Mike --
>
> I'm currently working on just such a grid -- should be finished in a few weeks.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rich
>
> On Dec 12, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Mike Zingale wrote:
>
>> Bill/Josiah, indeed that is a nice movie, and one I am sure many of us
>> will want to show in our Intro to Astronomy classes when we come upon
>> stellar evolution.  On that note, is there any sort of organized effort
>> toward MESA for Education, instead of research.  Perhaps providing an
>> archive of nice movies of stellar evolution for use in classes would be a
>> good start.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Bill Paxton wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Release notes will be found below, but I believe in eating dessert first,
>>> so, here's something neat from Josiah Schwab<jwschwab at berkeley.edu>
>>>
>>> He used mesa/star plus tioga to make a movie from pdf's giving very high quality text and graphics.
>>> Thank you, Josiah, for creating this and sharing it with us.  ;-)
>>> I wish I'd had something like it when I was first learning about stellar evolution!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Michael Zingale (mzingale at mail.astro.sunysb.edu)
>> Assistant Professor
>>
>> Dept. of Physics and Astronomy    office: ESS 440
>> Stony Brook University            phone:  631-632-8225
>> Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800        web: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
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> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:52:17 -0800
> From: Bill Paxton<paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu>
> Subject: Re: [mesa-users] mesa release 3790 + a cool movie
> To: mzingale at mail.astro.sunysb.edu
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> Hi Mike,
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> On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Mike Zingale wrote:
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>> Bill/Josiah, indeed that is a nice movie, and one I am sure many of us will want to show in our Intro to Astronomy classes when we come upon stellar evolution.
> Great!   A movie like that is really a huge help to see the how the various things change together as the evolution goes forward.
>
>> On that note, is there any sort of organized effort toward MESA for Education, instead of research.
> Excellent suggestion.   There isn't any such organized effort yet, but there certainly should be.
>
>> Perhaps providing an archive of nice movies of stellar evolution for use in classes would be a good start.
> That would be a wonderful start -- I know Rich Townsend has been working on something like that
> (oh!  I just got his email saying he has been working on it!!!)
>
> It would be wonderful if you and Rich and anyone else who is interested in MESA for Education would
> work together on this.   I'd love to see it happen, but I won't be the one to push the effort.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:08:04 -0600
> From: Richard Townsend<townsend at astro.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [mesa-users] [mesa-news] mesa release 3790 + a cool movie
> To: "mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net users"
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> Hi folks --
>
> Further to Bill's remarks below about the MESA SDK:
>
> On Dec 12, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Bill Paxton wrote:
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>> Finally, I continue to use Rich Townsend's mesasdk and encourage you to do the same unless you have
>> a special need to do things the hard way.    To reduce the size of an already too huge mesa download, the mesasdk is
>> not included -- get it directly from http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk#toc-Downloads
>> The latest version is dated Nov 11, 2011.
> I put out a new release of the SDK just now (see the link above), which brings the 'current' version to 20111212 (Dec 12, 2011). Together with a number of minor tweaks, this version should resolve some issues that have arisen when linking against the PNG library (libpng).
>
> It turns out there are fundamental incompatibilities between libpng v1.2 and v1.4, leading to missing symbol errors on some systems. To fix this problem, I've built the whole of libpng into the PGPLOT library (libpgplot), so the system libpng is no longer accessed. I've verified that this works on at least one Linux x86_64 box (thanks, Ben Brown!); please let me know if you encounter any more missing PNG-related symbols.
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> cheers,
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> Rich
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