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Finding yoga-poses constellations in the night sky

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POSTED BY: Philip Anon
Posted 8 years ago

WOW - really impressive. It would be good to implement it in the real planetarium. I am owner of the planetarium in Poland and can implement it into planetarium software. I need some more information. May I ask for:

  1. Names of yoga poses you presented.
  2. Numbers of the stars of new constallations as Hipparchos number of the star (or equivalent)

I will implement it into Stellarium sky culture and share it here.

Regards,

RKP

POSTED BY: Radek Pior

What a great idea! I hope @George Varnavides gives you the info you need. I am curious, @Radek Pior, what type of planetarium you own? Perhaps you can give more details on equipment, size, maybe some images?... I sometimes visit Poland, it would be great to visit and see the Yoga Constellations on display!

POSTED BY: Sam Carrettie

Hey Radek,

That sounds awesome indeed, looking forward to seeing how it turns out! Please see below and the attached files for the information you asked for and let me know if I can be of any more help.

I've attached a hierarchical dataset representation, here's how it looks like: enter image description here

and a more detailed look for one of them: enter image description here

Note how they are grouped in lines (joining them in this order should give you the constellation shape).

Excited for this!
George

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I am thrilled that you shared this work George! Such an interesting synthesis of computing techniques!

POSTED BY: Kyle Keane

This is another awesome contribution in a series of others (e.g. Transfer an artistic style to an image, or [WSS16] Image Colorization, etc.) using neural networks! Thanks for sharing! I would so much like to understand what you people are doing - is there any chance?

I mean is there some good and condensed material to learn just as much as needed to use those NN-Mathematica tools, and to avoid using them absolutely brainlessly without knowing what's going on?

Best regards -- Henrik

POSTED BY: Henrik Schachner

Glad to hear you've enjoyed the project Hernik! I must admit I may not be the best person to answer your question - but I can provide some links which helped me, I had also never used/studied ML before Mathematica rolled them out in version 11.1.

  1. For implementation of NN functionality in the WL, The Neural Networks Documentation Guide is VERY extensive. A nice summary of possible task-types can be seen under Applications on the NetTrain man page.
  2. For importing state-of-the-art architectures, have a look at the nicely curated Wolfram NN Repository page.
  3. For understanding some of the concepts better, I would suggest the easy-to-follow blog by Google's Christopher Olah (I particularly enjoyed his Recurrent NNs section).
  4. Another nice summary blog (this one focuses on Convolutional NNs). In-fact using Spatial Transformer (implemented in WL) layers to identify constellation rotations is another direction one could go with this.
  5. Finally if you ascribe to a Feynman-esque* method of learning, I would suggest coding a simple perceptron in WL to solve a linearly-separable problem and a back-propagation algorithm for a small network to solve a non-linearly separable problem.

Cheers, George

*Richard Feynman quote:

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

... but I can provide some links which helped me, ...

Dear George, this is exactly what I was hoping for, many thanks!

Best regards -- Henrik

POSTED BY: Henrik Schachner

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