So far, we have had only one major exhibit that has been directly affected by Linux.
Creating Ancient Earth Globes
Contributed by Charles Tompkins.
Using Gimp and a perl scipt plugin from Michell Charity, we took our simple cylindrical projections of ancient Earth and created gored images which we could easily scale, print, and cut out for pasting onto blank globes. An existing RedHat8.0 desktop was used to do this. Gimp, perl, and perl development rpm's where updated and/or installed and the plugin compiled. Each cylindrical projection of Earth was the gored overnight due to the length of time the process took! Museum Artisans the took the new images and transfered the continental boundary lines to blank globes and built them with layers of clay which were then molded and sent to a foundry to be cast in bronze.
The results can seen at the Florida Museum of Natural History's Hall of Florida Fossils in Powell Hall on the University of Florida campus.
