Absolutely marvellous. It’s better than the $-ware “Red Shift” that’s somewhat similar; though I got that so many years ago I suppose anything would be better now.
Is it possible to see the sky from nearby stars? Will it let you see, let’s say, the sun in Cassiopeia from Alpha Centauri?
Here’s a good place to start. Click on the ‘What is available?’. The ‘texture’ files you’re after have the extension .dds. For example, the one I’m using is called Realistic-Earth16k.dds (~85Mb!). I think I got it at a third-party site that I found via the main site.
Yep. For truly sick manipulations, you can download add-ons that increase Celestia’s star database to millions of stars. Make sure your computer’s up to it, though…
The program **Frank.exe ** is a fun, small programme. It mimics a psychologist.
Frank, along with Eliza, were the first attempts in the late eighties at **Artificial Intelligence ** programs that could stand the Turing test. The Turing test is the test: can we create a program that fools anyone talking to it into thinking they’re talking to an actual person?
Frank makes a great fun gift to anyone dabbling in psychology. And for geeks in general.
I got it from a freeware CD-rom years ago. If anyone wants it too, just drop me an e-mail with SDMB in the subject line, and I’ll be happy to e-mail it to you.
Perhaps there’s no need for email, Maastricht, I bet this is the same program:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/classics/eliza/pc/frank.zip
I’m hoping for a freeware program that can record whatever is going through my video card, capturing streams of Real and Quicktime video.