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I work for Mississippi State University
at their National Science Foundation Engineering
Research Center for Computational Field Simulation in the Scientific
Visualization thrust group. All together that's MSU NSF ERC for CFS
in SV. What I do here is visualization software development in C++.
I am a big fan of the OpenInventor toolkit because it makes life very
easy. In fact, I'm generally a big fan of anything that makes life easy.
One of the things I've worked on is the
common object support toolkit
or 'cost'. Click on the link
to learn more about it.
I married Cindy
Bright (now Cindy Everitt) on December 14, 1996. You can check out
some of the wedding and
honeymoon pictures if you're interested. Not long after we were married,
we got a big surprise. The newest edition of the Everitt family is due
on November 21! Below are some ultrasound pictures from 9/11/97.
This is my first experiment with the Java programming language. I like it. You should try it. The user interface is obviously crude, but you can add cyan particles with the left mouse button, orange particles with the middle mouse button (alt-left_button on 2 button mice) and clear all but the first particle with the right mouse button. The cyan particles have drag and are affected by all other particles. The orange particles have no drag and are affected by no other particles. Particles are released when the mouse button comes up. To give the particle initial velocity, just click-drag in the direction you want the particle to go (drag further for more speed) then let go. Also, you can change the boundaries by clicking and dragging on the other side of the boundary line.
You can check out the source if you'd like.