beo daily - daily stuff

30 November 2001

Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions.
3D toolkit for the Mac
CG Channel
A new release of MathMorphs
Maps in Squeak
Mapping stuff
- Fourmilab
- Xerox PARC
- JPL
- Digital Earth
- OpenGIS

Jabber asks the tough Questions
Building a better webserver for the 21st century
The Emergent new order
MJPEG Tools. Note that Squeak 3.2alpha has jpeg movies which are similiar but not quite the same.
MJPEG chunkfile format
Reading MJPEG
ARC, a dialect of Lisp

Squeak User's Manual
Murphy's law, the fitness of evolving species, and the limits of software reliability

Physics for Game Developers
Chapter 6 of the above
OpenGL 2.0 White Papers
The next computer Interface
ARM Machine code Generator
K, an APLesque Language
I finally finished my copy of Computer Graphics Quarterly from May 2001 and here are some links from the story about Computer Graphics in China. Note that at times China does not have the most robust internet contectivity so try more than once

State Key Lab of CAD and CG at Zhejiang University
Visual Computing Group, MS Research China. Logically enough this seems to be written in Chinese, a language I sadly do not read
CG Group, Univ of Hong Kong
Pioneer Graphics Software in Hangzhou
Graphics at Beijing University
Menfond Electronic Art in Hong Kong
Journal of CAD and Graphics
GVDS at Hong Kong Polytechnic
Image Computing Group, City University of Hong Kong

Wirth on programming language Design
Abstract Intrepretation
More Abstract Intrepretation
Antiword, a MS Word .doc to .ps Utility
The MacOS X version of Antiword
.ps to .pdf conversion for Mac OSX payware
Is it real?
A Fractal life engine
Sweet Code, an eclectic collection of programs
Vis5D
I finally finished my copy of Computer Graphics Quarterly from Aug 2001 and here are some links from the story about Computer Graphics in Germany

Overall list at Univ of Dortmund
Complex 3D-Models at AAchen
Scientific Visulation in Berlin
Computer Graphics and Digital LIbraries in Braunschweig
Informaiton Visulation at the University of Constance
Computer Graphics in Darmstadt - INI-GraphicsNet
Computer Graphics in Univ of Darmstadt
ZGDV
IGD in Darmstadt
Computer-Generated Plants and Landscapes at Dresden
Computer Aided Face Engineering in Freiburg
Scientific Visualization and Geometric Modeling in Kaiserslautern
Department for Intelligent Visulationa and Simulation of the German Research Center for AI (DKFI)
Visual Communication of Information at Madgeburg
Modeling and Visualization at Rostock
Research at the Max-Plank-Institute for Computer Science in Saarbruecken
Interactive Ray-Tracing in Saarbruecken
Virtual Environments at the GMD in Sankt Augustin
Scientific Visualization in Stuttgart
Computer Graphics at Tuebinnen
EMBASSI
ARVIKA
MAP
Open SG