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Local Forecast / Re: Create your own playlist

« on: February 06, 2018, 12:18:21 AM »

Since this Topic was revived, I'll post my February 2018 playlist.

Morning (5 AM - 11 AM)
Watch Your Step  - Chris Geith - Island Of A Thousand Dreams
Smile - Brian Hughes - Shakin' Not Stirred
El Gato - Craig Chaquico - Midnight Noon
Scenic Route - Bryan Savage - Rush Hour
Jessica - The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers And Sisters (Deluxe Edition)
Healing Hands - Ken Navarro - Slow Dance
After 6:00 - Marion Meadows - Player's Club
Together With You - Carlomagno Araya & Gabriel Sqientz - N/A
When Morning Comes - The Sax Pack - Power Of 3
Reception (Soty & Seven24 R.I.B Remix) - Ryan Farish - Life In Stereo

Daytime (11 AM - 5 PM)
Coasting - Joyce Cooling - Keeping Cool
China Basin - Joyce Cooling - Keeping Cool
May Dance - Brian Hughes - Between Dusk... and Dreaming
Big World - Anthony James Baker - AJBBand Live!
Sun Kiss - Ryan Farish - N/A
Groove Detective - Chris Geith - Timeless World
Rose Colored Glasses - Bradley Joseph - Hear The Masses
Golden Sky - Ryan Farish - Primary Colors
Margarita Dance - Vince Madison - Spice Of Life
Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
The Summit - Ryan Farish - Life In Stereo

Primetime (5 PM - 1 AM)
South Of Market - Joyce Cooling - Playing It Cool
Along The Way - Ryan Farish - Selected Works
Breath Of Life - Ryan Farish - N/A
Palm Springs - Marc Antoine - Universal Language
Brand Nu Day - Wayne Gerard - Outside In
Mercy Follows - Ryan Farish - Everlasting (Deluxe Version)
Red Skies - Chicane - Trance Top 1000 Selection, Vol. 36
Winter - Ryan Farish - Wonderfall
Pamela - Brian Hughes - Straight To You
Young At Heart - Ryan Farish - Everlasting (Deluxe Version)

Overnight (1 AM - 5 AM)
Make A Wish - Mindi Abair - Come As You Are
Who's The Bossa - Patrick Yandall - Samoa Soul
Lost And Found - Cindy Bradley - Bliss
Straight, No Chaser - Live[It Club] - Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Live At The It Club - Complete
Sun Kiss - Ryan Farish - N/A
So What - Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Skies - Ryan Farish - United
Poeta - Armik - Solo Guitar Collection
East Of The Sun - Russ Freeman - Trio & Quartet
Luna - Chris Geith - Timeless World (Added 2/6)

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TWC Fan Art / Re: weatherfan_2013's TWC Fan Art

« on: February 05, 2018, 03:03:12 PM »

Show Graphics

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TWC Fan Art / Re: weatherfan_2013's TWC Fan Art

« on: February 05, 2018, 02:19:05 PM »

I revamped the 2003-2005 bar and show a side by side comparison between September 2005 graphics and November 2005.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: weatherfan_2013's TWC Fan Art

« on: February 05, 2018, 12:20:41 AM »

Revamped Title bar that TWC used from 2005-2008.

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General Discussion / Re: Broadcast Weather Software Programming

« on: February 01, 2018, 12:53:02 AM »

I have decided to move my development to an Ubuntu environment due to it's east of access to OpenGL and X11lib dependencies.

Here the lowdown:
The GUI building process is pretty straight forward. It's all done in C and each button will either bring up a dialog box, edit a .rgb file, or initiate an OpenGL function or command. Nothing too difficult but may get a little confusing at times.

The only hard parts are translating NEXRAD binaries, GOES image files, and GRIB data and plot to an OpenGL grid. My other software will use a Gdal plot or equivalent. However with time, this will become pretty straightforward. Weather Info like Highs, lows, and conditions are pretty straightforward. I will program a basic piece of software to download all these data from Weather Underground, METAR, ASOS, or custom data provider, and will save to the /wxdisk/ directory on the Linux desktop.

All in all, this software will call data from the /wxdisk/ directory and translate and plot the info/data into a highly graphical 2d/3d environment, with shadowing, shading, custom textures .etc and can animate highs/lows and key frame camera angles and will save to custom movie file with start and stop points. This will load into a basic powerpoint type software (which I will also code) and will have the option to display through any compatible video card (expensive or not).

This is basically re-creating WSI's showfx and WxPro systems since they are obsolete and long forgotten. I'm programming this to work with today's standards Video standards and newer weather data formats.

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General Discussion / Re: Broadcast Weather Software Programming

« on: January 30, 2018, 11:24:20 PM »

Here's the desktop environment it'll run on. It uses the X-Window system and motif and will use OpenGL to run the 3d graphics software and the other 2d graphics software will use a Geo coordinate system to plot weather images and contours on top of a geotiff file.

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General Discussion / Broadcast Weather Software Programming

« on: January 30, 2018, 12:40:56 AM »

Hi All,
I've been wanting to take the endeavor of creating weather graphic software for several years now and I have now taken the steps to complete this mission. I know a little C and python and have created gui's in both. What I have posted below is the layout of my 3d weather graphics software which will generate weather imagery and data onto a 3d globe, 2d planar, or a 2d static map background generated by another software piece I will create that takes GEO data and Digital Elevation Models to generate base maps.

I intend to use Solaris 10 for my software suites to keep the feel of WSI's software suite throughout the 90s and 2000s. The coding will all be done in C (Hopefully).

I'm also asking anyone here who knows OpenGL, has intermediate level knowledge on C or C++, gcc .etc, or has knowledge on the equations to decode weather imagery and plot data on a geo grid, please let me know! Your help will be greatly appreciated.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Production Music Identification Thread

« on: January 06, 2018, 01:23:57 AM »

The download above got corrupted, so instead I uploaded samples of about a quarter of production music used on TWC from 2000 - 2013.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci3A0EUVrwc&feature=youtu.be

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Production Music Identification Thread

« on: January 05, 2018, 07:39:41 PM »

This is the 2005 alert mode theme. Used during Katrina, Ophelia, Rita, and Wilma. The other track is "Eye of the storm" from Stephen Arnold's The Vault, which we all know.
I posted a sample

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Production Music Identification Thread

« on: January 03, 2018, 06:31:16 PM »

I have found the 2005 Hurricane Season Theme. There was already a full track somewhere on YouTube, however it's from VideoHelper - Lawrence Of Astoria - VH012

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TWC Fan Art / Re: weatherfan_2013's Wx Graphics

« on: December 23, 2017, 02:19:22 PM »

More Maps

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TWC Fan Art / Re: weatherfan_2013's Wx Graphics

« on: December 23, 2017, 04:33:46 AM »

My attempt to recreate WSI Titan, these graphics simulate what most local tv stations would use.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: weatherfan_2013's Wx Graphics

« on: December 21, 2017, 02:28:40 PM »

Conus Demo

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TWC Fan Art / weatherfan_2013's Wx Graphics

« on: December 14, 2017, 11:08:14 PM »

This is where i'll post exported weather graphics that don't really relate to artwork or have really any meaning but represent a look that TWC has or had.

The image below will update every 10 minutes.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: weatherfan_2013's TWC Fan Art

« on: November 25, 2017, 10:32:54 PM »

More WSI Basemaps I created