version 1.6 is the latest release of Category Cloud, a WordPress plugin that shows categories as a tag cloud which can (optionally) be coloured.
Available from
http://www.mapelli.info/web20/category-cloud-16
Based on the original weighted categories plugin from
http://www.hitormiss.org/projects/weighted-categories
Browsed past Zsurf – it is used to convert bitmap images into “nurb” surfaces.
(Picture courtesy of Phil Kellman – 2007)
The workflow of the program is simple: load or create a bitmap, setup the filters and effects and then push the process button to process the image. The result of processing is a heightfield surface stored as an IGES file. (note: black represents minimum height and white represents maximum)
Zsurf
I got a copy from
http://mwt.net/~sjedging/ZSURF4.zip
The Microsoft Journal for Developers (MSDN Magazine) is available from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/default.aspx
Also noticed Charles Petzold is venturing into 3D with his latest book. (He published his first book “Programming Windows” back in 1988)
http://www.charlespetzold.com/
3D Programming for Windows explores and elucidates the 3D graphics programming facilities of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) under Windows Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0.
http://www.charlespetzold.com/3D/index.html
While checking for broken links etc. noted that Newnham Research (High-Speed USB Graphics Technology) has re-branded as DisplayLink.
Designs based on DisplayLink technology enable sending real-time interactive computer displays across nearly any standardized interface including USB, WiMedia, and Ethernet.
Everything USB has a recent article on the Samsung 19″ SyncMaster 940UX monitor which features a built-in USB video card powered by DisplayLinks’ scalable technology.
http://www.everythingusb.com/samsung_syncmaster_940ux_11970.html
A recent BBC News article discusses a recent development by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that enables unwanted portions of photographs to be replaced.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6936444.stm
The technique matches segments from the millions of images available on the web, with the photo being edited, to fill holes or add objects providing seamless results.
The process was recently described in papers presented at the recent Siggraph in San Diego
Photo Clip Art – An interactive system for inserting new objects into existing photographs using a vast image-based object library.
and
Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs – A method for filling holes in images using semantically and structurally similar scenes from a large internet photo library.
Other links to this story include:
http://www.physorg.com/news103287076.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/cmu-cmr071007.php
MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework designed to make writing extensible and compatible code easier and faster. MooTools lets you get the job done efficiently and effectively.
some samples at
http://www.chrisesler.com/mootools/index.html
Terminal Emulator, PuTTY is
a free software SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP client. It was originally available only for Windows, but is now also available on various Unix platforms, with work-in-progress ports to Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. Other people have contributed unofficial ports to other platforms, such as Symbian powered mobile phones. It is beta software written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham, and is open source, licensed under the MIT License.
courtesy of wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY
Check out the PuTTY home page at:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
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