| Chemistry
- Biochemistry - Material Science Software Application |
|
| Chimera |
direct link to UCSF |
| Gromacs (v3.2) |
The official manual (pdf file) |
| Macromodel Manuals Version
* |
The official Macromodel
manual(local only) |
| MD Movie |
By J. Greenberg |
| MD Movie Help files |
By D. Mitchell - Sydney
VisLab (1998) |
| Rasmol Documentation |
|
| SciAn (v) |
by Eric Pepke and Jim
Lyons from Florida State
University (pdf files) |
| VMD User's Guide (v1.8.2) |
By J. Gullingsrud, D.
Norris, J. Stone |
| VMD Programmer's Guide (v1.6) |
By J. Gullingsrud, D.
Norris, J. Stone |
| Mathematics
Software Applications |
|
| A guide to Mathematica
(v2.03) |
By L. Poladian -
University of Sydney |
| Chris's guide to
Mathematica |
by C. Ormerod - Sydney VisLab (1999) |
| Matlab
Online Documentation |
direct link to Mathworks |
| Mathworks Online Support |
direct link to Mathworks |
| Welcome to Matlab 5 |
by John Grant - Sydney
VisLab part-timer |
| Matlab 5 |
from Mathworks (pdf files) |
| Scilab (v3.0) |
from INRIA |
| Scientific
Visualisation |
|
| AVS5 Online Documentation |
The official manual from
AVS (pdf format - local only) |
| Equivalence between AVS 5, Viz/Express and DX Modules | for people juggling
between these three applications. By W. Wang - Sydney VisLab |
| Collaborative AVS5 Manual |
by G. Johnson - UCSD and
C. Natoli, Sydney VisLab |
| Training material for AVS
5 and AVS/Express |
From IAC |
| AVS Express tutorial | From NCSC |
| AVS/Express Visualization Edition | An Introductory Course For
Medical Users (from the Manchester Vis Centre) |
| DX Quickstart Guide |
IBM manual (pdf file) |
| DX User's Guide |
IBM manual (pdf file) |
| DX User's Reference |
IBM manual (pdf file) |
| DX Programmer's Guide |
IBM manual (pdf file) |
| Distance Education Course on OpenDX | Developed by the Cornell
Theory Center (CTC) for business and industry, federal agencies, and
academia. |
| Fledermaus | (local only) |
| IMOD | |
| Vis5d Tutorial |
by Paolo Antonelli |
| VoxelView |
Getting your dataset into
VoxelView |
| 2D
Graphics |
|
| Gimp (v2.2) |
by the Gimp Documentation
Team |
| Gimp (v1.01) |
by Karin & Olof S Kylander (pdf file) |
| Gimp: Color
Section (v1.01) |
by Karin & Olof S
Kylander (pdf file) |
| gnuplot (v3.5) |
an interactive plotting
program by Thomas Williams &
Colin Kelley |
| gnuplot (v3.5) |
by Andy Liaw & Dick
Crawford (Postscript file) |
| Operating tips for gnuplot |
By Stuart Prescott (a 1998
SC3 student) |
| mica: Image File Formats Conversion | By J. Horne - Sydney VisLab |
| XV (v. 3.10a) | By John Bradley |
| 3D
Graphics |
|
| Houdini - 3D Elevation Maps |
create a 3D Elevation
(topographic) map of Australia in houdini by B. Simons - Sydney VisLab. |
| Houdini - spot the
difference |
tutorial in using houdini
to spot the difference between two images. Postscript version here Fun
and Simple - should take about 20mins. Note: this tutorial uses an image that is only available on the local VisLab network. |
| Houdini tips and tutorials |
by Odforce |
| Vex Language Reference |
By Side Effects Software |
| Happy Rendering with VEX |
by Keita Maeda |
| Forward Kinematics |
3.0 tutorial will teach
you the basics of construction in the Bone State. |
| ShadeTree Online
Documentation |
Shadetree is used to
create Shaders for the RenderMan, BMRT, and Vex computer graphics
renderers. |
| IMOD |
Build a 3D Model from 2D
image slices. |
| Jade |
Just Another Decimator -
reduces the number of polygons in a 3D Model. Takes in OpenInventor
format 3D models. Interactive GUI tool. |
| Metro |
An interative tool which
compares the decimation of 3D Models, from the people who wrote Jade. |
| Programming
Languages |
|
| A Mug's guide to Fortran |
by P. Robinson (The
University of Sydney) |
| Common Fortran Errors | by P. Robinson (The University of Sydney) |
| Chris's guide to Fortran90 | by C. Ormerod - Sydney VisLab (1999) |
| Introduction to Java3D |
by D. Nadeau |
| Introduction to Perl 5 | by J. Moreland |
| PGPLOT |
By T.J Pearson |
| A Mug's guide to PGPLOT, the Fortran subroutine | By CY Teo (The University of Sydney) |
| Python (v2.4) |
From python.org |
| SMP parallel programming |
An Introduction to
programming in a Symmetric Multi-processor environment, by Dr. R.
Standish |
| UNIX
|
|
| UNIX Light |
minimum UNIX you need to
know by N. Bordes |
| UNIX Survival Kit |
'or how to survive with 10
commands' by N. Bordes |
| A Mug's guide to UNIX |
from the School of physics at the University of Sydney |
| vi Light |
or how to use vi (a fast
and powerful text editor) |
| Mastering the vi editor |
A more detailed tutorial
on vi, from the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii,
Manoa. |
| A Mug's guide to Unix mail |
from the School of physics
at the University of Sydney |
| Web
- Internet |
|
| WISYWIG html |
'write your own web home
pages from scratch' by N. Bordes |
| SIGGRAPH 96 Introduction
to VRML 2 |
by J. Moreland and D.
Nadeau - UCSD |
| Introduction to VRML 97 |
by J. Moreland and D. Nadeau - UCSD |
| Publishing |
|
| LATEX2 for Authors |
From the Latex project team |
| Using LATEX in the School
of Physics (v2.09) |
By Glenn Geers, The
University of Sydney |
| Discontinued
- Unlicensed - Plain Old Applications |
|
| CosmoWorlds |
by SiliconGraphics |
| Serious about Cerius? |
A friendly guide to
Cerius, the grandfather of Cerius2 by N. Bordes (1996) |
| A short primer on how to use MidasPlus | direct link to UCSF |
| Prisms |
A quick guide to get you
started with Prisms. Nb: these days we use Houdini instead. |
| Semper (v1.0) |
Image processing software (NB: semper is not supported in VisLab anymore) |