Chapter 16

Gamelan Staff Picks


CONTENTS

Arts and Entertainment

Sun Open Golf Game

by Sun Microsystems Netherlands
URL: http://www.sun.n/SunOpenGame/Course1.html

An online virtual golfgame to get you in the 'swinging mood' for the Sun Microsystems Open '96 tournament to be held in the Netherlands.

Business and Finance

The Option Pricing Program

by Mark Higgins
URL: http://astro.queensu.ca/~mark/OPPjava/OPP.html

This applet prices American or European call or put options with a continuous (or zero) dividend rate numerically using a binomial tree algorithm. It also allows calculation of implied volatility for an option of any sort.

Education

Chemical Education and Resource

by Jeff Milton
URL: http://www.chem.cmu.edu:80/milton.spec

This is a Chemical education site that is scheduled to be used in 3 chemistry classes (so far) at Carnegie Mellon Unversity. Currently applets include spectroscopic and statistical analysis simulators as well as a Data Fitting resource applet for chemical data analysis (Straight Line, Least Squares fits). Source is available upon request (currently being documented).

JavaScript

Cypherspace

by Todd Grupe
URL: http://www.netvoyage.net/~tgrupe/cryptoO.htm

An interactive cryptogram game written in Javascript. Features include 100 different cryptograms, an automatic hint button, a solving timer, and online help. Using Netscape cookies, the program remembers your best solving time and records which cryptograms you've already solved, and automatically chooses a new one.

Multimedia

PrimaSounds - music and some animations

by Ralph Losey
URL: http://ddi.digital.net/~prima/prima.html

PrimaSounds meditation music is played while words help you understand what this new type of acoustic experience is all about. There are also some cool animations.

Network and Communications

CERN Teletext2Web Gateway Java powered

by Benoit Rigaut
URL: http://hpslweb.cern.ch/teletext/java/view110-java.html 

The CERN is using an internal video system to monitor the status of its accelerators. A gateway is providing a world wide access to the TELETEXT data via the Web. A Java powered version is now doing the same. Using directly the Teletext code results in a low bandwith cost, and then a better refresh time.

Programming

Mojo: the Visual Java Development Tool

by Penumbra Software
URL: http://www.penumbrasoftware.com/

Mojo, Penumbra Software's new visual Java development tool provides an easy way to quickly build Java applets and applications without compromising any of the power of the Java language.

Special Effects

Image Morphing Applet

by David Tompkins
URL: http://www.att.com/homes/dt/html/morph.html

Given a source image and a destination image, this applet will generate intermediate frames and create an animated morph between the two images.

Utilities

Automated Travel Assistant

by Greg Linden
URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/glinden/TravelSoftBot/ATA.html

Plan your airline travel! Allows the user to browse real flight information, examine flights, state preferences, and find an ideal flight itinerary.