fun items for computer graphics

Pictures from the Grandforks Air Force Base Air Show August 30, 1998.

Some nice pictures of the moon . You can also get a history of lunar exploration .

the GIMP (general image processing routines) http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~federico/gimp/el-the-gimp.html GIMP is on the SOD machines.

Persistence Of Vision(POV-Ray)Trace, create really NICE images http://www.povray.org/

Visualization and showing data with a computer

A very nice set of 3D visualizations shown on a globe.

The following two books show some nice graphics based on mathematical models (such as fractals).

Peterson, Ivans, The Mathematical Tourist: snapshots of modern mathematics, W.H.Freeman and Company, New York, 1988.

Pickover, Clifford A., Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty: graphics from an unseen world, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990. ISBN 0-312-06179-X
This book also gives a number of techniques to visualize data so you can see hidden patterns in the data.

Hendee, William R. and Peter N.T. Wells, The Perception of Visual Information - second edition, Springer, 1997.

If you are interested in Visualization Read the Following.
If you do Visualization, get the Books

Tufte, Edward, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire Connecticut.

Tufte, Edward, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire Connecticut, 1990.



parametric creation of images: http://www.earthquakerose.com/

Some other graphics resources:
GeoWall inexpensive 3D
The Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
tutorial on java to draw textured spheres
Computer Graphics info page
a plugin to show how a red green color blind person sees
The Alice system to teach 3D graphics and animation.
a fun Flash aid for some graphics products
Image to objects tools: http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/icarus/ , http://www.photomodeler.com

this looks like an interesting (online) seminar
Linux Movie Technology Speaker: Robin Rowe (MovieEditor.com) UC Berkeley Wed Sep 25 12PDT to get the player software go here