Monthly Archives: January 2006

BKChem

Apologies for the light posting. I’m teaching a new course for me: General Chemistry II, and the load for lecture prep has been substantially higher than normal. We just had BKChem submitted as a software link for our Molecular Viewers … Continue reading

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BKchem

BKchem is free chemical drawing program with many features, written in python. Find BKchem at: http://bkchem.zirael.org/

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Pup Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe

For your enjoyment, we present this link to “Pup” Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe from Drew Weing. I like Drew’s comics because he messes with the boundaries of the medium. Here’s one where he lets you choose your … Continue reading

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OOPSE hits version 3

My research group’s main simulation program is called OOPSE, and we’ve just released a major rewrite of this code which includes all sorts of new molecular dynamics bells and whistles. Our code now includes lots of parts bolted on from … Continue reading

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URAPIV

This is cool: URAPIV is an open source Matlab Toolbox for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis. Particle Image Velocimetry is a planar, non-intrusive, optical imaging measurement technique that allows for two-dimensional, high-resolution velocity vector fields of laminar and turbulent flows. … Continue reading

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Where have all the cool kids gone? To ScienceBlogs, I guess.

ScienceBlogs looks like a project of Seed Magazine, but a bunch of cool science blogs (including Pharyngula, Living The Scientific Life, Uncertain Principles, and Chris Mooney’s blog, The Intersection) have all moved there in the past few days. All the … Continue reading

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My God, it’s full of stars!

The Hubble telescope gives us an image worthy of Dave Bowman’s exclamation about the monolith. At HubbleSite.org, you can read about the panoramic view of the Orion Nebula. I particularly love the google-maps-style zoomable navigator of the 18000 x 18000 … Continue reading

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URAPIV – open source Matlab Toolbox for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis

URAPIV is an open source Matlab Toolbox for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis. Particle Image Velocimetry is a planar, non-intrusive, optical imaging measurement technique that allows for two-dimensional, high-resolution velocity vector fields of laminar and turbulent flows. Find URAPIV – … Continue reading

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GFortran

I just realized that I don’t have any links in our Programming Languages section, so I’ve added a link to GFortran, the gcc front-end for Fortran 95 (which is not the same as g95). I haven’t yet tried to compile … Continue reading

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GFortran

Gfortran is the name of the GNU Fortran 95 project, developing a free Fortran 95 compiler for GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. The gfortran development effort uses an open development environment in order to attract a larger team of developers … Continue reading

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