Useful Links

Visualization, Spring'03

SQL INFORMATION:
-- My Local Collection for hw4
-- A nicely commented PostgreSQL 7.3 documentation from James Thornton
-- JDBC Postgresql Home: download the Postgres JDBC jar files, JDBC installation and documentation, etc.
-- JDBC Home from Sun
JAVA INFORMATION:
-- Collection from my Basic Algorithms Course
-- Java 1.4.1 API Documentation: the main entry point.
-- Hierarchy Tree of all packages
-- Java 1.4.1 API Index.
-- A random local collection
-- Two contributions from your classmate Marie Shvartsapel:
Java 2D Graphics and Java 2D API
-- Various Tutorials ( Swing (JFrame Layers, etc), Advanced java, etc) from Richard Baldwin (contributed by Zubin Zirglani).
My recent courses on Visualization and Modeling: [ Fall 2001 ] [ Spring 2001 ] [ Spring 1998 ]
Active Visualization Homepage at NYU. See some ongoing visualization projects.
TIGER Demo: check out our cool Map Server:
-- Continuous zooming and panning of the whole USA down to street level
-- You can create a tree of "telewins"
-- Context navigation (make a child telewin jump to any spot; center the parent telewin)
-- Search under each telewin for all visible map features by name
-- Remember any map location in a cookie for future visits,
TIGER tools from Active Visualization Homepage.
CYGWIN Information:
-- Cygwin is a highly recommended (free) port of Unix environment (with GNU development tools) for Windows. Big plus is that you do not need dual-boot!
-- I have started to collect information to help you get started.
R-Tree Links:
-- R-Tree Visualization and Java Code
Nice tutorial for GIS data visualization issues: http://www.terrainmap.com/
SDTS++: a C++ Library for SDTS Format from USGS.
EDITOR INFORMATION: Some suggestions
OPENGL INFORMATION:
-- www.opengl.org, the official OpenGL home.
- Online version of Red Book (OpenGL Programming Guide)
- Online version of Blue Book (OpenGL Reference Manual)
- Big List of OpenGL tutorials
- Big List of Sample Code (including examples from Red Book)
-- OpenGL at SGI.
-- List of OpenGL Sources from Angel.
-- Mesa or Mesa3D is a 3D graphics library that uses the OpenGL API, and hence is useful as an OpenGL substitute (Mesa is free).
-- New OpenGL book by Edward Angel from Addison Wesley & Benjamin Cummings. OpenGL: A Primer. His Graphics Book, also based on OpenGL, is very accessible.
-- GLUT Tutoral www.lighthouse3d.com.
-- Homepage for Hill's book at Prentice-Hall. Download the source code from here.
Some GIS applications at NYU/ITS. Other links: ArcIMS, an http://www.nyu.edu/its/connect/archives/96summer/loprestipipeline.html> utilities routing application of Dr. Smoritzky.
Java Networking FAQs
The Walk-Thru Project from UNC (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); see also the Press Release from NSF. Note that one of our goals is to extend this to a webbased setting. See also: Large Geometric Models at UNC, and the GLVU is a C++/OpenGL/GLUT based viewer.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies fluid flows around geometric models (e.g., air flow around a wing). Here, we need to construct meshes (or grids) in the exterior of geometric models. A good representative for such work is Numerical Aerospace Simulation (NAS) Division at the NASA Ames Center. Here is a mesh for a space shuttle model. (data format information).
Sources for Geometric Models: Large Geometric Models Archive at Georgia Tech. Models from 3D Cafe. From www.3dstudio.com
Sources for GIS Software Tools: ivtools from Vectaport
Georeferencing: One of the fascination of GIS datasets is that each data item has a unique reference in terms of latitudes and longitudes. Merging disparate data sets using this common reference is an important problem. But georeferencing problems arise even in logical names. For instance, while the internet gives indiscriminate access to global data, it is often important to filter this access using georeferencing (more generally, spatial and also temporal attributes). See tool of Eric Shaffer at UIUC for mapoing a host name, domain name, or IP Address to latitudes and longitude. E.g. cs.nyu.edu maps to (Lat,Lon)=(40.839,-73.867), in downtown Manhattan while cs.columbia.edu maps to (Lat,Lon)=(40.849,-73.867), in uptown; java.sun.com maps to (Lat,Lon)=(37.388,-122.067) in Mountain View, California.
Data Formats: PLY File Format from Greg Turk. There is a cygwin-version by Piyush Kumar (go to the cygwin homepage above). Local version of the PLY format description, and PLY tools.
Some OnLine Applications of GIS
- MapMusuem from ESRI.
- FactFinder from the US Census Bureau. It provides access to the 1990 Decennial census, the American Community Survey, the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal, and the 1997 Economic Census. Information about this project from ESRI.