EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
IMPLICIT SURFACES AND REAL-TIME GRAPHICS
[author : Kyle Lussier]
Implicit surfaces are used in molecular modeling, animation, geophysical systems, weather analysis, and the like. They're also at the heart of Silly Space, the modeling application Kyle describes here.
A MEMORY-CONSTRAINED IMAGE-PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE
[author : Mayur Patel]
Image-processing applications are hungry for both processing time and memory. The architecture Mayur presents here puts you in the driver's seat when it comes to controlling memory consumption for high-performance image processing.
RAVEKIT: A PORTABLE GRAPHICS FRAMEWORK
[author : Mark Carolan]
RaveKit, Mark's general-purpose, cross-platform framework, lets you create interactive 3-D environments that provide an alternative way of presenting graphical data and obtaining user input.
MOTION BLUR EFFECTS
[author : Tim Wittenburg]
Altering the appearance of "moving" objects using blurring techniques can add realism and excitement to your graphic images. Tim shows you one way to accomplish this.
TREAPS IN JAVA
[author : Stefan Nilsson]
Treaps, the randomized search trees devised by C.R. Aragon and R. Seidel, provide the functionality of a general-purpose sorting routine, priority queue, hash-table, stack, or standard queue. Stefan shows you how to implement treaps in Java.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
ATMEL'S AT89C2051 MICROCONTROLLER
[author : Dhananjay V. Gadre]
Dhananjay presents a simple programmer for AT89C2051 that is hosted on a 8052-based circuit running a Basic interpreter. He then uses the system to build a 12-bit multichannel ADC to connect to PCs.
INTERNET PROGRAMMING
THREAD POOLS AND SERVER PERFORMANCE
[author : John Calcote]
As John points out here, thread pools provide one way of improving server performance.
PROGRAMMER'S TOOLCHEST
SOUNDING OFF WITH THE RSX LIBRARY
[author : Steve Durham]
Intel's Realistic Sound Experience (RSX) library was initially developed to enhance the silent 3-D world of VRML. Steve presents WaveSpinner, an RSX-based tool that reads a script, animates and spatializes all the sounds using RSX, and writes the result to a .WAV file.
Tectate and Interactive 3-D
[author : Peter D. Kochevar]
By providing a set of tools for describing animated 3-D scenes and their interaction with end users, the Tecate system enables the description of interactive, animated 3-D scenes, and interfaces to existing applications and data sources such as the World Wide Web and remote collaboration.
COLUMNS
PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael returns to the topics of Java bashing, Java books, and JavaBeans.
C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
In rethinking the relationship between C and C++, Al wonders if it is time to put the proverbial cart before the horse.
JAVA Q&A
[author : Clif Berg]
Cliff uses the JDK 1.1 multilanguage feature to create a multilingual currency calculator.
ALGORITHM ALLEY
[author : Will Schroeder and Tom Citriniti]
Polygon decimation algorithms reduce the number of polygons in a mesh while maintaining a good approximation to the original data, leading to faster, more realistic 3-D graphics. Will and Tom show how these algorithms are used and create a decimated VRML file.
UNDOCUMENTED CORNER
[author : Robert R. Collins]
Robert discusses the basics of in-circuit emulation, describing how it has become his primary software debugging tool.
PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Gregory V. Wilson]
This month, Greg examines Jonathan Rosenberg's How Debuggers Work, Mark Woodman's Programming Language Choice, and The Media Equation, by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass.
Forum
LETTERS
[author : you]
NEWS & VIEWS
[author : the DDJ staff]
SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]
OF INTEREST
[author : Eugene Eric Kim]