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This site is devoted to computing and other projects related to
Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Research Related Links
- High-precision gravity research - this is
the pre-release site; it is not updated often, and generally arcane.
Feel free to browse.
- U.S. Time Zone GMT Offsets
- utah-g3d - a simple block-based 3d
gravity modeling engine; written in ANSI C and Python
- OPUS - NGS runs a free
GPS position analysis system based on RINEX data files and the CORS
continuous GPS network. Very useful for small projects needing only a
couple of positions.
- Moki Marbles - photos from a field trip to
photograph Moki Marbles (Fe concretions in sandstone) for an
image-processing project comparing Utah concretions to Mars.
- LCWTP Project - potential field surveys over
the Little Cottonwood Water Treatment Plant, SLC; includes data and a
lab exercise for students using GM-SYS.
- Automaton - a fuzzy-logic-based autopick
system for exploration seismic data. Not designed for automatic event
picking in continuous seismic data! Includes some code for SEGY file
I/O, which can be handy now and then.
- Class Web Pages - pages for classes I have TA'd;
contain information, graphs of scores, etc.
- Utah GIS Portal - includes topo
sheets, vector layers for roads and boundaries, etc.
- mathworld - web pages
describing most of theoretical math; very, very useful for the
scientist.
- Mesowest - Database of meteorological
data; IDIOTIC INTERFACE THAT PRECLUDES LARGE DATA TRANSFERS. Please
complain to the operators that only allowing single station downloads
for the last 2 weeks of data makes their entire concept utterly
worthless.
- U of
Utah Thesis/Dissertation Guidelines - PDF hosted by School of
Computing; 2002 version.
- U of Utah Thesis/Dissertation Latex
Files - Zipped archive of class, style, and examples for U Utah
thesis/dissertation in Latex; for 2e and newer LaTeX; please submit
revisions and improvements so others don't have to reinvent the
wheel.
- Computing Tutorials
- Intro to Programming - PDF
document written by a couple of GG grad students to help other grad
students really get into programming; focuses on how to setup problems
for solution by computer, rather than any single language. Also, the LaTeX source of the PDF is
available.
- Unix for Science - some notes on
getting the most out of a UNIX environment for scientists. Assumes a
very basic familiarity with UNIX-like environments. Postscript and LaTeX source also available.
- Matlab
tutorial - an introduction to Matlab, an excellent
general-purpose linear algebra environment. Matlab runs best (and
fastest) when you can make your problem into matrix and vector
operations; it can, however, do anything if you have to.
Except for the graphics handles, the tutorial applies to Octave as well. If you
don't want to buy Matlab, download Octave instead.
- Python Documentation
- on www.python.org
- Tkinter Documentation -
on www.python.org
- Java
Documentation - on java.sun.com
- Serial port data acquisition in Java
- About terra
Miscellaneous Links
- Random Kitten
Picture - a site that randomly chooses a picture of a
cute kitten or three. Good for telling yourself that not all is bad
and awful with the world....
- Schlock Mercenary - a good
web comic with an excellent sense of humor and some reasonable physics
for far-future rayguns and FTL travel.
- Earth Impact
Calculator - computes effects of a specified impact; try using
relativistic velocities to see why orbital railguns are the WMD of
choice for Sci-Fi books.
- Athlon benchmarking - an
experiment to see how fast some Athlon machines really are
- How to tie the Pratt Knot
- The Dead Media Project
- Everything you ever wanted to know about dead communication forms
- Why go to Space?
- Living Steel notes and documents -
Includes a complete reworking of the original Leading
Edge Games concepts for starship propulsion and related technology.
There are now reasons for restrictions, and some "realistic" physics
introduced. Also has notes on new forms of weapons of mass destruction
and the history of S4.
- Matrix: End of the Machines - How I would
like to see the Matrix series end.... [N.B. - not official, condoned, or
endorsed; use for whatever at your own risk]
- Proof that Heaven is hotter than Hell -
elegant application of basic physics to metaphysical questions
- Security Council Crisis - MUNUC XI
SC Crisis from 7 Feb 1999
- A rant against copy protection,
by a member of the EFF and founder of Cyngus Software; from 19 Jan 2001
- random philosphical essays
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