Package: wnpp Owner: Thibaut Paumard <paum...@users.sourceforge.net> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : gyoto
Version : 1.0 (coming soon)
Upstream Author : Thibaut Paumard <paum...@users.sourceforge.net>,
Frederic Vincent at obspm fr
* URL : http://gyoto.obspm.fr
* License : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: C++
Description : General relativistic geodesic integration and ray-tracing
Gyoto aims at providing a framework for computing orbits and ray-traced
images in General relativity. It consists in a shared library
(libgyoto0/libgyoto0-dev), utility programs (in the gyoto package), and
a plug-in for the Yorick programing language (in yorick-gyoto). With it
you can basically:
- compute the trajectory of a body in the vicinity of a compact object
(e.g. a black hole);
- compute the image of an astronomical source (a star, an accretion
disk...) in the vicinity of a compact object (such images are affected
by strong gravitational lensing effects).
This source package would thus produce the following binary packages:
libgyoto0: relativistic geodesic integration and ray-tracing
libgyoto0-dev: development files for libgyoto
gyoto: General relativistic ray-tracing
yorick-gyoto: General relativistic geodesic integration for the Yorick
language
gyoto-doc: documentation for the Gyoto library
I am interested in maintaining this package because:
1- I am one of the primary upstream authors and I want Gyoto to be
actually usable and used;
2- there is no alternative in the Debian archive. Actually, Gyoto is the
first relativistic ray-tracer to be publicly available, not to mention
open source.
Best regards, Thibaut.
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