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I've been talking to Leopold Palomo Avellaneda about viz like architectures. He has a Robot simulator that looks cool: qilex

In the process, ran into the old viz documentation from the IMG/ARA web pages that I mirrored. Sometimes I forget what all is in Viz!

[broken links] See: http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/viz/doc/

• CoreTech
• DevGuide
• msg quick ref
• Add Msg detail
• Clients Usr Guide
• Message OverView
• ROUGH notes from 1998

Anniversary of Mt St Hellens eruption.

VisBARD looks a bit like parts of xcore.

Okay... I want one. Thunder K8QS - 4 way Opteron. So, it someone wants to do donate a machine to me [grin]... 20 GB ram, 4 Opterons, professional PCI-X video card w/ at least a 1/2 gig of ram, Dual Channel SCSI, SATA raid. This thing will make one heck of a linux box! Might blow the circuit in my office, but I'm willing to take my chances. It's about time the world switched to 64 bit!

San Diego Coast over time: Sea Cliffs, Beaches, and Coastal Valleys of San Diego County, by

Some Amazing Histories and Some Horrifying Implications

Suggested citation: Kuhn, Gerald G., and Francis P. Shepard Sea Cliffs, Beaches, and Coastal Valleys of San Diego County: Some Amazing Histories and Some Horrifying Implications. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1984. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0h4nb01z/

The Geowall conference the last two days was excellent, even if I was working on homework in the back. SIM just released a new volume too yesterday. I really can't wait to give it a try!

Dave Sandwell asked me a good question: Does anyone use FT (Fourier Transforms) to do cross corelation for 3D from stereo? As far as I know, none of the major programs in use does. But, I don't really know why. When Eric and I worked on the stereo pipeline, I really didn't know much about Fourier Theory (I still not great at it despite great efforts from some of my professors!), so we never explorered it even conceptually. I do remember hearing about this kind of thing being done, but never saw great results. Anyone have a good reference for an FT (FFT or other) being uses effectively for stereo vision?

LOD vertex sliding was something I hadn't scene before. Pretty nice idea, but I wonder about the computational load. How much more CPU/GPU does it take.

kerneltrap - I always forget about this site, but it has some good articles.

complex c++ - Complex number with cplusplus is yet another reason not to use Fortran.

python in sysadmin

Yesterday, I started playing with GNU Gengetopt... wow. Makes life much simpler. Maintaining a command line interface just got a lot easier for me. I was having troubles where certian args were failing to work as expected directly using getopt. And it didn't take more than 20 minutes to get used to it. Very easy to learn. Just wish emacs had a mode for it.

• Apollo 17 datasets
• http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/browse.jsp/li>
• Lunar DEMs
• Lunars DEMs at smithsonian

Lava does not dry, it cools and solidifies. It might have a few percent volatiles, but that isn't much. It's not like mud drying.

Did a first draft of my flight tool. Need a better method for interpolating the view directions between waypoint. I'm sure this has been beat to death, but it's not something that I've studied.