ROMS project movie back online

The ROMS project movie (the only thing people seemed to miss during the black months when pong was down) is now back online. See it [here](http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob/movies/roms_project.mov).

Making images and animations of model output in google earth

I have been working on creating images and animations from google earth. I started out [here](http://www.barnabu.co.uk/animations/) for inspiration. Here are some samples of an [image](http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob/files/bsh.kmz) and an [animation](http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob/files/bsh_anim.kmz). The code is actually quite simple:

Woot! Back up

Finally, after a massive hard drive failure, my web log is back up. To make a long story short, I promise to make better backups and buy Steve a beer.. I feel a pent up pile of posts -- so after waiting for so long, be sure to check often now.

Sample movie for GETM

Here is a sample script for generating a series of figures (that can be turned into a movie with ffmpeg, see [below](http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob/?p=100)). The case used is the box_curvilinear test case.

How to make screen movies w/voiceover.

People have asked me how I make my HOWTO movies, like [this one](http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob/movies/roms_project.mov). The good news is that it is ridiculously simple.

python gets some love from Leopard

[It seems](http://www.cmlenz.net/blog/2007/10/python-on-leopa.html) that Mac OS X Leopard has quite a few excellent features installed by default. Including numpy!

Unix things I did not know..

Some interesting unix commands I recently discovered: xargs and seq. With these you can do this, for example:

Find all of the files named foo, and create a tar file:

find . -name foo | xargs tar cvfz tarfile.tar.gz

Iterate through your cluster nodes:

for i in `seq 0 7` ; do scp foolib c0-$i:/usr/local/lib ; done