Dec 18

Art of Illusion 2.8

Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modeling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later.

Art of Illusion is powerful enough to be used for serious, high end animation work. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Some of the highlights include subdivision surface based modeling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials.

Requires Java Runtime Environment. Get It Here.

Homepage: http://www.artofillusion.org/
Download: ArtOfIllusion28-Windows.exe
File Size: 6.60MB


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Oct 2

Panoply 2.8.3

Panoply is a Java application which enables the user to plot raster images of geo-gridded data from netCDF datasets. Panoply is an utility that enable user to plot raster image. Depending on the data, it can draw global longitude-latitude images or pole-to-pole latitude-vertical images.

Features:

  • Slice specific latitude-longitude or latitude-vertical arrays from larger multidimensional variables.
  • Combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging.
  • Plot longitude-latitude data as global maps or zonal averages.
  • Plot longitude-latitude data using any of over 40 global map projections, or just plot a particular region.
  • Overlay continent outlines or masks on longitude-latitude plots.
  • Use any PAL, ACT or CWC color table for scale colorbar.
  • Save plots to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form.

Requires Java Runtime Environment. Get It Here.

What’s New in version 2.8.3:

  • Added Clear Menu item to Recent Files menu
  • Bugfix: Show Contours & Vectors menu item did not work
  • Eliminated floating progress windoid Replaced it with status bar at bottom of application windows
  • If started from the command line, added option to allow for multiple instances of Panoply to run at one time Use “-multi” argument
  • Added ability to save plot images in uncompressed TIFF format
  • Added ability to save plot images in uncompressed JPEG format
  • Bugfix: Possible null pointer condition could break examination of a lon-lat variable using alternative grid
  • Bugfix: Annoying Datasets Browser repaint flicker on some platforms
  • Library: Updated netCDF-Java to version 4049
  • Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 131

Homepage: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
Download: PanoplyWin.zip
File Size: 9.40MB


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