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/
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.
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