What's New in 1996:

December 10, 1996

• Version 1.6.1 of Geomview is now available! Geomview is an interactive 3D geometry viewing program.

October 8, 1996

• Two new exhibits are now online in the Java Gallery of Interactive Geometry. The exhibits were prepared in large part by participants in the Geometry Centers 1996 Summer Institute working in collaboration with Robert Devaney's Dynamical Systems and Technology Project at Boston University. The new exhibits are:
  • Leap Fractal is a java version of the "chaos game" where players move around a fractal game board using linear transformations.
  • IFSoft is a collection of programs for creating and animating fractals. The fractals are described as the attractors of iterated function systems.

September 19, 1996

• A compilation of Tesselation Resources is available. The listings include both software and references to books, articles, sources of tiling graphics.

September 18, 1996

• A Java version of Kali has been added to the Java Gallery of Interactive Geometry. Kali is a program for experimenting with symmetry, allowing the user to draw pictures and patterns that exhibit any of the possible "wall paper group" symmetries. Kali has been available through the Center for the Macintosh and as an interactive web application for some time. The new Java version allows users on Windows computers use Kali too.

August 2, 1996

• New web-based course materials are available for the Technology in the Geometry Classroom being taught at the Geometry Center through the University of Minnesota. The course is designed for pre- and in-service high-school geometry teachers, and introduces them to a range of technologies (e.g., software tools, videos, and WWW-based lessons). Participants experience learning as their own students will. Course projects enable them to develop ways to use these tools in their own classes.

April 5, 1996

• Check out some of the Java applets that we've been working on. These include:
  • WebEQ equation renderer (pre-release)
  • Hyperbolic Triangles
  • Lorenz Simulation
  • 1-D Iteration Demonstration
  • Tetris
  • SaVi: Satelite Visualization

April 2, 1996

• A new calculus lab has been added to the University of Minnesota Calculus Initiative page. This lab deals with beams, bending and boundary conditions.

February 9, 1996

• A new Mathematica package for SGIs called mathpad is available in our software library. This program allows Iris Mathematica users to generate interactive graphics.

January 17, 1996

• We are offering a new course in communicating mathematics with hypertext in early June, 1996. The course is designed specifically to help you learn to present mathematics using the unique hypertext features of the world-wide web.

January 8, 1996

• A new calculus lab has been added to the University of Minnesota Calculus Initiative page. This lab deals with numeric integration techniques, and includes several interactive experiments.
• Descriptions and application procedures are now available for the visitor, postdoc and apprentice programs at the Center.

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