hitch a ride!
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/
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.
Tufte, Edward, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire Connecticut.
Tufte, Edward, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire Connecticut, 1990.
Tufte, Edward, Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative, Graphics Press, Cheshire Connecticut, 1997.
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