Research and Development

what I do

Software Development: educational and practical software for the Macintosh and iPhone or iPod Touch

Rob Burkhead '09: IFS Drawer (Mac OS X). Iterated function system, fractal drawing.

Michael Dejori (exchange student from the Free University of Bolzano (Italy): Fractal Editor

Algorithm Visualization: QuickTime® Movies to illustrate algorithms from computational geometry.

The portal gives the scope of this project, and access to over 150 QuickTime movies illustrating algorithms from computational geometry. A summary of this six-year project was published: "Visualization of Algorithms from Computational Geometry using QuickTime® Movies," 2007 Scientific Journals International: Journal of Mathematical Sciences 1(1), [online journal; no page number].

The work has been published or presented at: "MetaMedia," an Apple Congress for Higher Education, Berlin, June, 2000; ITiCSE, Helsinki, July, 2000; EdMedia '01, Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Tampere, Finland, June 2001; and "From Algorithm to animation: the Sequel," 2003 MacTech 19(7)m 32ff.

Deprecated: QuickTime movies to illustrate algorithms from computer science and computational mathematics. This includes work presented for the EdMedia '95 conference, Graz, Austria, June 1995; the article "From Algorithm to Animation," 1993 9(11), 20ff; and the illustration of optimization algorithms, EdMedia '98, Freiburg, Germany, June 1998.

Obsolete: Software for visualizing data structures and their changes throughout the lifetime of an algorithm. MacGAIGS was the name of this software.

Computer Cartography

Obsolete: for constructing maps; use of national and international cartographic data.

Multimedia Titles

Obsolete: Work in the development of multimedia titles using ScriptX.

Deprecated: I still have these materials and they still work; but I'm not active with this any longer.

Obsolete: I may not have these materials and they probably do not work; I am not doing this at all now.