Don Ellington Feb 25, 2009
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> Are these test values a permanent value? Can I add them somewhere so
> they are static?
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> Don
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> Bill J Gray wrote:
> >
> > Hi Don,
> >
> > This isn't a bug. It's a feature. (Programmers love being
> > able to say that!)
> >
> > Originally, you could show those images at any field. The
> > problem was that if you went to, say, a 20-degree field of view
> > over a galaxy-rich area, you had to wait a _long_ time while
> > Guide drew a bazillion tiny images, each maybe two or three
> > pixels on a side. So I revised things so that if an image
> > was smaller than 40 pixels in both dimensions, it wouldn't get
> > drawn.
> >
> > To revise this, you can hit Alt-J again, and this time
> > enter, for example,
> >
> > MIN_IMG_SIZE=10
> >
> > Do that, and you can zoom out by a factor of four and still
> > see those images. (Not that they'll look like much when reduced
> > to 10x10 pixels, but you _can_ do it.)
> >
> > -- Bill
> >
> >
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