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TileMill

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:47:32 +0000

TileMill is a tool for cartographers to quickly and easily design maps for the web using custom data. It is built on the powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik.

Key features include:

- Access datasources on the local filesystem or through Amazon S3
- Manage map layers with file-based datasources (shapefiles, rasters)
- Edit carto stylesheets directly in the browser
- Edit carto stylesheets with a custom editor like vim in Minimal mode
- Preview map tiles instantly while editing stylesheets
- Inspect datasource field values and data types
- Export maps to PNG, PDF and MBTiles formats

(Introduction to TileMill)

Sita Sings the Blues

admin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:02:34 +0000

Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley.The film mixes events from the ancient Indian epic tale, the Ramayana, with illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets, musical interludes voiced with tracks by Annette Hanshaw and scenes from the artist’s own life.

The film received acclaim from the New York Times and the Chicago Sun Times.

Valkaama

admin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:52:45 +0000

Valkaama is a no-budget, open source, full feature film based on Hendrick Behnisch’s novel by the same name. It tells the story of three young adults in search of a utopian society in northern Finland called Valkaama.

None of them are aware of the dangers and challenges that lie ahead and what starts out as a quest for poetry ends in tragedy.

You can see the entry for the film on IMDB.

Sintel

admin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:39:42 +0000

“Sintel” is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender.

Sintel is a young girl on a quest around the world to find a baby dragon she calls “Scales”. Back in her hometown, she first discovers Scales while looking for food. However, after discovering that the wing of the dragon was injured, she helps nurse it back to health. She develops a close bond with Scales, yet one day after its wing recovers and it begins to fly, it is taken away by a fully grown dragon. Sintel travels across the world in her attempt to rescue Scales, fighting off attacks from beasts and humans.

Find out more about Blender, the open source 3D modeling software used to create this film.

Read about and learn how to use Blender software.

Space Trajectory Analysis

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:43:39 +0000

STA development is based on open source, state of the art, astrodynamics routines.

The 3D visuals of STA are based on “…Celestia, The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions…”.

The STA project allows a strong link among these disciplines by reinforcing the academic community with requirements and needs coming from space agencies and industry real needs and missions.

Canorus

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:20:40 +0000

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.

Key features of this program include:

- Score source view with on-the-fly parser and rendering to the scoreview
- Command line interface & Scripting support
- Plugins
- Function marks
- Archived XML-based file format with resources attached
- Qt4 and cross-platform ability
- Modern user interface (vector graphics for music elements, multiple viewports on a single score)
- Doxygen documentation
- Multiple voices – Polyphony and unlimited number of contexts
- Multiple viewports on the same music score
- MIDI playback
- Transposition
- Lyrics
- LilyPond export, basic import
- MusicXml basic import
- Midi export, basic import

Big Buck Bunny

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:38:43 +0000

Big Buck Bunny is a follow-up to the successful “Elephants Dream” open movie project by the Blender Foundation. Again a small team (7) of the best 3D artists and developers in the Blender community were invited to work in Amsterdam from October 2007 to April 2008 on completing a short 3D animation movie. The team members were given studio facilities and housing in Amsterdam, all travel costs reimbursed, and a fee sufficient to cover all expenses during the period.

Elisa The Open Media Center

admin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:04:49 +0000

The Elisa Media Center has many advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online. View your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows. Manage your music collection by artists or album covers. Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.

Here are some of the current features:

* Watch pictures with previews and animated slideshows
* Watch movies and video clips
* Browse music collection by artists or albums covers
* Browse internet radio and picture websites

* Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop
* Audio visualization during playback

* Supports all media formats using Gstreamer multimedia framework, including H.264, MPEG 2, MPEG4, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Matroska. Commercially licensed plugins that work with GStreamer and Elisa are available from Fluendo.

And much more…

LotsaEscher

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:12:28 +0000

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.

LMMS

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:54:10 +0000

LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program and those of powerful synthesizers, samplers, effects etc. in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface.

Its main features include the following:

- Song-Editor for arranging the song creating beats and basslines using the Beat-/Bassline-Editor

- Easy-to-use piano-roll for editing patterns and melodies
instrument- and effect-plugins

- Support for hosting VST(i)- and LADSPA-plugins (instruments/effects)

- Automation-editor

- MIDI-support