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Computer Graphics With Java 218

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @03:11PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Michael Grady writes "Computer graphics has become an indispensable part of mainstream computing and the undergraduate course in computer graphics programming is often one of the most popular courses in the curriculum. In the early days, such courses dealt with low level implementation details and algorithms such as converting lines to pixels, filling rectangles, view clipping and anti-aliasing. When OpenGL arrived on the scene, it was welcomed as an efficient and powerful, procedure-oriented library that kept many of the low level details out of sight. The sort of projects that could be tackled in an introductory course became much more impressive. That was back in the 90's. Is there a way to build a course covering the basic computer graphics concepts and techniques which takes advantage of object orientation and higher levels of abstraction? I believe the authors of Computer Graphics using Java have found a way." Read below for Michael's review

Submission + - Scientists find water on extra-solar planet (pressesc.com)

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amigoro

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @03:08PM

amigoro writes: "Scientists have, for the first time, conclusively discovered the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System, according to an article appearing in Nature. They made the discovery by analysing the transit of the gas giant HD 189733b across its star, in the Infrared using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. HD 189733b is a 'hot jupiter', a gas giant that is roughly the size and mass of Jupiter but orbits very close to the star, so no chance of life there."

Submission + - The Revolution of Greed and the Music Industry (theflashbulb.net)

Submitted by JoeZeppy on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @02:54PM

JoeZeppy writes: An independent musician details how ITunes, BestBuy and the record labels beat him out of %85 of the price of every album, and what he's doing to combat it.

"A decade ago, while being an amateur musician and daytime computer technician, a tech-savvy friend of mine called me raving about MP3s. He even sent me some files on my painfully slow dialup connection. The technology impressed me, but I didn't worry about it either. I thought to myself:

"Surely nobody is going to spend 40 hours downloading an album at a horrible audio quality."

Of course I didn't speculate how advanced the internet would become 10 years later. Those who did either fought it or became millionaires.

Now before you start getting excited about being part of a music revolution, I'm going to share my rendition of it, which isn't going to be inspirational in the least bit. The point of all it all is, well, that nearly everyone involved is unethical and greedy. From the largest corporation all the way down to the consumer."

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