surf is a tool to visualize some real algebraic geometry: plane algebraic
curves, algebraic surfaces and hyperplane sections of surfaces. surf is
script driven and has (optionally) a nifty GUI using the Gtk widget set.
The algorithms should be stable enough not to be confused by curve/surface
singularities in codimension greater than one and the degree of the surface
or curve. This has been achieved quite a bit. We have drawn curves of degree
up to 30 and surfaces of degree up to 20 successfully. However, there are
examples of curves/surfaces of lower degree where surf fails to produce
perfect images. This happens especially if the equation of the curve/surface
is not reduced. Best results are achieved using reduced equations. On the
other hand, surf displays the Fermat-curves accurately for degree up to 98.
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software
system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK
consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers
including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. Kitware, whose team created and continues
to extend the toolkit, offers professional support and consulting services for
VTK. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including: scalar,
vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling
techniques such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing,
cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. VTK has an extensive
information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets,
supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI
toolkits such as Qt and Tk.
Gmerlin_avdecoder is a general purpose media decoding library. It
was written as a support library for gmerlin, but it can also be
used by other applications. You don't even need gmerlin installed,
only gavl. Most of it was written completely from scratch, but the
sourcetrees of some other great software packages were used as
reference documentation. Credits go to the authors of Xine, MPlayer,
quicktime4linux and ffmpeg.
Gmerlin_avdecoder is one of the most complete general purpose media
decoding libraries. The supported formats and codecs span a wide
range of applications from consumer level (mp3, divx etc.) to high
end production formats like 32 bit PCM and some professional
uncompressed video codecs.
Using gmerlin_avdecoder in your playback for transcoding application
means rock solid media format support with an ever growing list of
supported codecs and formats.
iso2mkv is software for automated DVD to XviD/vorbis MKV video conversion.
Gives almost total control on the process of video compression at maximum
quality, while being simple and straightforward to use (a kind of
'life-hack'). The intended audience is advanced end-users and the script is
not user-error-proof.
Based on mplayer, mencoder, oggenc or lame, and mkvmerge (if not properly
installed, won't work). This is only a shell script that wraps the other
programs. If you can watch the DVD with MPlayer, you can compress it with
iso2mkv. Other used programs (hopefully included in most GNU/Linux
distributions as well a FreeBSD :) ) are basename, bc, nice, stat.
libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on
top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it
easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without
having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. libv4l
consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2.
libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixel-format
to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420.
libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent
of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many
v4l2 drivers do not).
libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the
application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary.
libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on
top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it
easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without
having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. libv4l
consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2.
libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixel-format
to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420.
libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent
of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many
v4l2 drivers do not).
libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the
application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary.
SMPEG is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support. Video playback
is based on the ubiquitous Berkeley MPEG player, mpeg_play v2.2. Audio is
played through a slightly modified mpegsound library, part of Splay v0.8.2.
SMPEG supports MPEG audio (MP3), MPEG-1 video, and MPEG system streams.
plaympeg, gtv, and glmovie are simple video players provided to test the
library. The C library interface is 'documented' in smpeg.h, and the C++
library interface is spread out over the MPEG*.h files.
This is a work in progress. Only 16 bit color depth is supported.
The player will dynamically conver to other color depths, but playback
will be much faster if your display is already set to 16 bit color depth.
SMPEG is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support. Video playback
is based on the ubiquitous Berkeley MPEG player, mpeg_play v2.2. Audio is
played through a slightly modified mpegsound library, part of Splay v0.8.2.
SMPEG supports MPEG audio (MP3), MPEG-1 video, and MPEG system streams.
plaympeg is simple video players provided to test the library. The C library
interface is 'documented' in smpeg.h, and the C++ library interface is spread
out over the MPEG*.h files.
This is a work in progress. Only 16 or 32 bit color depth is supported.
The player will dynamically convert to other color depths, but playback
will be much faster if your display is already set to 16 bit color depth.
Convey allows people across the globe to collaboratively draw images while
chatting online. Using pictures in addition to words makes communicating online
fun and easy.
Convey is an Instant Message (IM) program. You can send an message to a friend,
but unlike email, the message instantly appears on your friend's screen if they
are online. Otherwise, the message is delivered to your friend when they log
onto the Internet.
Convey uses the Jabber protocol to send its messages. A protocol consists of
the rules by which a computer communicates with another computer.
Using Jabber, Convey provides users connections to other popular IM programs,
such as AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Instant Messenger, and Yahoo!
Messenger.
ejabberd is a high performance Free and Open Source distributed
fault-tolerant instant messaging Jabber server.
Key features include:
- A web administration console and command line administration
tools that ensure easy set up
- Support for encrypted connections to ensure secure communications
- Many built-in services, including Jabber User Directory and Multi-User
Chat
- Standard Jabber transport compliance to enable communication with other
instant messaging networks
- Automatic collection of statistics for reporting and system analysis
- Virtual hosting, enabling ejabberd to run several virtual domains
from a single ejabberd instance
- Shared rosters, so that users can have predefined entries in their
contacts lists
- External storage support
- Large numbers of supported protocols (see the supported protocols list
for details)
- Multi-lingual web administration interface
- Full IPv6 support