by Conal Elliott
Fran, short for "functional reactive animation," is a high-level vocabulary that lets you describe the essential nature of an animated model, while omitting details of presentation.
by Thomas "Rick" Tewell
As a visual-effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, John Knoll lives on the bleeding-edge of computer graphics. With his brother Tom, he also created the PhotoShop image-processing software.
by Jawed Karim
Combining Win32 with OpenGL can lead to some impressive 3D graphics. Jawed presents a model viewer for use with OpenGL on Windows 95/NT.
by Andreas Beck
The General Graphics Interface (GGI) project brings safe, fast, and portable graphics to a variety of platforms and operating systems. Andreas describes KGI, the kernel-level component of the Linux version of GGI.
by André LaMothe
Affine texture mapping is fundamental to many forms of 3D rendering, including light interpolation and other sampling type operations.
by Linden deCarmo
Although DVDs physically resemble CD-ROMs, they store up to 25 times more data. Linden focuses on the DVD-Video specification, and presents a DVD-Video player.
by Derrick B. Forte and Hai T. Nguyen
In this two-part article, our authors design a Windows 95-based Caller ID peripheral device built around Motorola's MC68HC(7)05P9 microcontroller. This month, they present the software.
by Sean McGrath
Responsibility for rendering XML belongs to the eXtensible Style Language (XSL) Standard. Sean presents an overview of XSL and illustrates how it can be used with MSXSL, Microsoft's XSL implementation.
by Al Williams
Al uses Visual Basic 5 and Dragon Systems' DragonXTools toolkit to build a voice-activated autodialer. Since the custom controls are ActiveX controls, however, you can use most any language.
by Mukul Sood
Although security is not officially part of the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) specification, JDBC driver vendors are beginning to offer security features such as encryption and authentication.
by Michael Swaine
Michael ventures into the land of the lizards before adding his two cents to LEO lore. He then introduces a new "Paradigms Past" feature.
by Al Stevens
Al continues his journey into the mysteries of Windows CE -- and the Windows CE Developers Conference has given him a lot to think about.
by Aaron Michael Cohen
The Java API defines an abstract imaging model that can be used to display and manipulate both static images and sequences of images. Aaron examines this powerful yet flexible model.
by Lee Kamentsky
Many image-analysis tasks must first separate the image into clearly defined regions. Lee's algorithm performs such a separation and presents the results in a fashion amenable to further study.
by Dennis E. Shasha
Dr. Ecco and his sidekick Liane help the military avoid going from the frying pan into lines of fire in this month's episode.
by Gregory V. Wilson
Greg looks at a bevy of books this month, including Software Visualization, C/C++ Software Quality Tools, Perl: The Programmer's Companion, Effective Perl Programming, Perl 5 Interactive Course, and Software Runaways: Monumental Software Disasters.
by Jonathan Erickson
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