{"id":366,"date":"2007-05-21T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=366"},"modified":"2007-05-21T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:44:00","slug":"useful-uses-of-xplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/useful-uses-of-xplanet\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful uses of xplanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/508160328\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/197\/508160328_6e862adda9_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/508160328\/\">The planet L\u00e9on<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a bit of time playing with <tt>xplanet<\/tt> after <a href=\"http:\/\/twid.bibulus.org\/2007\/05\/xplanet-on-ubuntu.html\">installing it<\/a>.  It just has so many features!<\/p>\n<p>First I discovered you can add clouds (and there are plenty of sites where one can download new clouds every couple of hours).  Then I realised it&#8217;s always rendering all planets, and that the moon actually turns up if a solar eclipse is in progress.<\/p>\n<p>And today I realised any photo can be used to render the planet, including photos of kids.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planet L\u00e9on Originally uploaded by viralbus. I&#8217;ve spent a bit of time playing with xplanet after installing it. It just has so many features! First I discovered you can add clouds (and there are plenty of sites where one can download new clouds every couple of hours). Then I realised it&#8217;s always rendering all planets, and that the moon actually turns up if a solar eclipse is in progress. And today I realised any photo can be used to render the planet, including photos of kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114,115,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing","category-kids","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}