Monthly Archive for February, 2006

Support for GPS TrackMaker file format on GPSBabel

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Gustavo Niemeyer
on 2006-02-04
in GPS, Patch and Project
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Continuing my put-those-bits-out-of-your-hard-drive campaign, I’ve released a patched version of GPSBabel with support for input and output of waypoints, tracks and routes in the binary file format of GPS TrackMaker.

The patch was written six months ago (sorry :-) ). I just had to port it over to a recent version of GPSBabel.

The original reason for the patch is that there is quite a good amount of information under that format for Brazil, and GPSBabel is able to deliver information directly to some brands of GPS devices. Hopefully this will get applied upstream soon.

Mandelbrot Set

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Gustavo Niemeyer
on 2006-02-02
in Fractal, Python and Snippet
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I’ve finally posted the Mandelbrot Set code snippet that was sitting on my disk for a while.

It computes and draws the Mandelbrot Set fractal using pygame, and also Python for Series 60.

Three different screenshots are provided. They show the snippet running under pygame, under pymaemo in a Nokia 770, and under Python for Series 60 in a Nokia N70 phone.

I was quite amazed to see the Nokia 770 running the pygame version without any changes in the code. Kudos to Osvaldo, Rodrigo and Ruda at INdT for the pymaemo port, and to Nokia for the great device.