What's New in 1995:

November 30, 1995

• There are now three new interactive applications in our Gallery of Interactive Geometry:
  • WebPisces: for computing implicitly defined curves in the plane,
  • Build a Rainbow: for investigating how rainbows are formed, and
  • Projective Conics: an illustration of Pascal's theorem.

November 29, 1995

• Check out the new staff and postdoc pages!

October 24, 1995

• The Geometry Center Visitors Resources library finally is in place. This is a valuable resource for visitors, both long- and short-term. It includes information about software, hardware, and the environs of the Center. Check it out.
• The University of Minnesota Calculus Initiative now has a home page on the web. Check out the interactive rainbow lab!

September 27, 1995

• Our home page has been restructured and enhanced; you will notice first that the main topics each have a short explanation further indicating their contents. You will also find two new topics:
  • Geometry Reference Archives
  • Video Productions

• The Reference Archives is a new section that includes hypertex-based geometry reference works. The first of these is a collection of Geometry Formulas and Facts, which is a section written by Silvio Levy from the 30th edition of the CRC Standard Math Tables and Formulas, and enhanced for the Web. Note that the Graphics Archive has been moved to the Reference Archive page as well. Look here for more reference works in the future.

• The Video Productions section collects information about the major video projects carried out at the Center; look here for write-ups and clips from the videos, and for ordering information.

• Note that there is now an Overview of the Center's Web that describes the overall structure of the Center's Web pages, and should help you locate what you are looking for more easily.

• The Information for People at the Center has been renamed Geometry Center Visitor Resources. These pages are finally being written, and should become available shortly. We thank you for your patience.

September 26, 1995

• Several new on-line papers have been added to our Multimedia Document library. These include:
  • Engineering Education at the Geometry Center
  • Interactive Methods for Visualizable Geometry
  • Visualizing the Structure of the World Wide Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space
• The Graphics Archive now has a new interface.
• The Geomview FAQ has been significantly rewritten and updated.

September 18, 1995

• Announcing the second workshop on Systems Administration: The Mathematician's Perspective. If you are a mathematician, please ask the systems administrator at your department or company to look at this announcement.

September 13, 1995

• A new search engine for the Geometry Center web pages has been installed. It provides a more full-featured query expression, and provides control over searching several different collections of titles of pages at the Geometry Center. In particular, it includes people's personal home pages which were not part of the old title searches.

June 20, 1995

• A listing of student projects is now available from our educational materials listings. In particular, some of the final projects of the UMTYMP CalcIII students are available.

June 1, 1995

• We now have a list of computational geometry software that collects pointers to such softrware from around the world. Each software package is described briefly, and README files are provided when possible.

May 17, 1995

• A new multimedia presentation by Silvio Levy describing the award-winning computer animation, Outside In, produced at the Geometry Center, is now available in our multimedia library. The document includes animation sequences from the video, the complete script, valuable background material, and information about ordering the video.

May 9, 1995

• A version of the Kali 2D pattern editor is available now for the Macintosh computer.

March 3, 1995

• The Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision workshop home-page is now on line.

March 20, 1995

• Major restructuring of our Web pages. This should make it easier to locate items, and includes more information about the Center and its programs. Old links will remain active temporarily, but will eventually be removed.

February 21, 1995

• New release of Cyberview3D, a package that makes it easy to include interactive 3D graphics into your Web documents, by Paul Burchard.

January 6, 1995

• A recent addition to our server is a Math Awareness Week page. Math Awareness Week is held in late April each year to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics. The theme for this year is Mathematics and Symmetry.

January 4, 1995

• Of Museums and Icosahedra by Harvey Keynes and Frederick J. Wicklin. This article (which appeared in the MAA FOCUS) presents a few recent efforts by the Geometry Center to reach the general public, professional mathematicians, high school teachers, talented youth, and underrepresented groups in mathematics. It also contains links to A Teacher's Guide to Building the Icosahedron as a Class Project.

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