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Nasa World Wind

Nasa World Wind

“World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.”

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Movies

Big Buck Bunny

Big Buck Bunny

Big Buck Bunny is a follow-up to the successful “Elephants Dream” open movie project by the Blender Foundation. The concept is ‘funny and furry’, go watch right away! It’s free!

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Route 66 – an American badDream

Route 66 - an American badDream

Accompany three German hillbillies discovering the American culture on a weird road trip and see how they stumble into the American way of life as outsiders.

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Stray Cinema

Stray Cinema

Stray Cinema is an open source film. Users are able to download and re-edit raw footage from a film shot in New Zealand, providing people from all over the world with an opportunity to create their own version of the film.

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Boy Who Never Slept

Boy Who Never Slept

One of the world’s first full-length open source movies, Boy Who Never Slept tells the story of an insomniac writer who happens to meet a teenage girl online.

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Elephants Dream

Elephants Dream

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.

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Music

Canorus

Canorus

Canorus is a free extensible music score editor. It supports note writing, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output, scripting and more! Using a Qt4 framework Canorus offers a fast and modern GUI and cross-platformability.

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Elisa The Open Media Center

Elisa The Open Media Center

The Elisa Media Center allows you to watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

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LMMS

LMMS

LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio) is a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops/FL Studio, Cubase and Logic allowing you to produce music with your computer.

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Screensavers

LotsaEscher

LotsaEscher

This is a screensaver which displays an animated version of M.C. Escher’s Print Gallery drawing. It is based on work done by Hendrik Lenstra and Bart de Smit.

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Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep is a screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world, it communicates with other computers via the internet to share in creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”.

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Stars & Planetarium

Space Trajectory Analysis

Space Trajectory Analysis

The “Space Trajectory Analysis” or STA software suite is conceived as a research tool to support the analysis phase of a space mission having the ability to analyze, determine, simulate, and visualize a wide range of space trajectories.

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Stellarium

Stellarium

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer that shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.

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Celestia

Celestia

Celestia is the free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.Celestia is expandable, seamless and covers over 100, 000 stars.

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