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Visualization Toolkit 5.0.3
Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing. more>>
Professional support and products for VTK are provided by Kitware, Inc. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modelling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. In addition, dozens of imaging algorithms have been directly integrated to allow the user to mix 2D imaging / 3D graphics algorithms and data.
The design and implementation of the library has been strongly influenced by object-oriented principles. VTK has been installed and tested on nearly every Unix-based platform, PCs (Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP), and Mac OSX Jaguar or later.
Many resources exist to help you utilize the full potential of VTK in your application area. These resources include:
Mailing List: Over 1900 users are subscribed to this list. A great place to post questions, and search for answers.
VTK Textbook: The Visualization Toolkit, An Object-Oriented Approach To 3D Graphics, 3rd edition, ISBN 1-930934-12-2, now published by Kitware. This is a great book to read if you want to learn the details of the visualization algorithms and data structures. The book is often used as a college text in visualization and graphics courses.
VTK Users Guide: The Visualization Toolkit Users Guide, ISBN 1-930934-13-0, published by Kitware. This is the book to get if you want to learn how to install and use VTK.
ParaView Guide: The ParaView Guide, ISBN 1-930934-14-9, published by Kitware. ParaView is a turn-key visualization system build on top of VTK, and makes VTK easier to use with an interactive, point and click interface. ParaView also supports supercomputing applications, including tiled display and distributed parallel processing.
CMake: Mastering CMake, ISBN 1-930934-11-4, published by Kitware. CMake is the premier, cross-platform build system used to compile and link VTK. A useful book if you want to use VTK in your projects.
Support: A variety of support options are available ranging from the single point-of-contact Professional Subscription to get you up and running, to custom Site Support to help you develop your next product with VTK.
Enhancements:
- Many bugs were fixed, including fixes for memory leaks, array bounds errors, and stack overflows.
gzip Recovery Toolkit 0.5
gzip Recovery Toolkit attempts to automate the recovery of data from corrupted gzip files (including tarballs) through a program more>>
99% of "corrupted" gzip archives are caused by transferring the file via FTP in ASCII mode instead of binary mode. Please re-transfer the file in the correct mode first before attempting to recover from a file you believe is corrupted.
This program is provided AS IS with absolutely NO WARRANTY. It is not guaranteed to recover anything from your file, nor is what it does recover guaranteed to be good data. The bigger your file, the more likely that something will be extracted from it. Also keep in mind that this program gets faked out and is likely to "recover" some bad data. Everything should be manually verified.
Usage:
Run gzrecover on a corrupted .gz file. Anything that can be read from the file will be written to a file with the same name, but with a .recovered appended (any .gz is stripped). You can override this with the -o option.
To get a verbose readout of exactly where gzrecover is finding bad bytes, use the -v option to enable verbose mode. This will probably overflow your screen with text so best to redirect output to a file.
Once gzrecover has finished, you will need to manually verify any data recovered as it is quite likely that our output file is corrupt and has some garbage data in it. If your archive is a tarball, read on.
For tarballs, the tar program will choke because GNU tar cannot handle errors in the file format. Fortunately, GNU cpio (tested at version 2.5 or higher) handles corrupted files out of the box.
Heres an example:
$ ls *.gz
my-corrupted-backup.tar.gz
$ gzrecover my-corrupted-backup.tar.gz
$ ls *.recovered
my-corrupted-backup.tar.recovered
$ cpio -F my-corrupted-backup.tar.recovered -i -v
If you have a previous release, please note that the patches to GNU tar have been discontinued. They were only marginally successful at best and GNU cpio does what is needed out of the box and does it far better.
Enhancements:
- Documentation updates, including a man page, plus code cleanup to better enable inclusion in GNU/Linux packages and eliminate compilation warnings.
PHP System Administration Toolkit 1.0 RC1 (ooLDAP)
PHP System Administration Toolkit is a toolkit/framework for the rapid development of system administration Web interfaces in PH more>>
Network Security Toolkit 1.5.0
Network Security Toolkit is a bootable ISO live CD and its based on Fedora Core 2. more>>
The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms.
The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 75 Security Tools by insecure.org are available in the toolkit.
What we find rather fascinating with NST is that we can transform most x86 systems (Pentium II and above) into a system designed for network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, network packet generation, wireless network monitoring, a virtual system service server, or a sophisticated network/host scanner.
This can all be done without disturbing or modifying any underlying sub-system disk. NST can be up and running on a typical x86 notebook in less than a minute by just rebooting with the NST ISO CD. The notebooks hard disk will not be altered in any way.
NST also makes an excellent tool to help one with all sorts of crash recovery troubleshooting scenarios and situations.
Enhancements:
- We are pleased to announce the latest NST release: v1.5.0. This release is based on Fedora Core 5 using the Linux kernel 2.6.18. Here are some of the highlights for this release: the NST Web User Interface (WUI), has been greatly enhanced and cleaned up; extensive additions to managing and analyzing network packet captures; the ability to setup and manage printers; the ability to easily mount many different supported file system types; the ability to manage the NST as a file server (both NFS and CIFS); the addition of the Inprotect package (a Nessus manager); the addition of the Zabbix package (another network resource monitoring tool - similar to Nagios)....
Optimization Algorithm Toolkit 1.3
Optimization Algorithm Toolkit is a workbench and toolkit for developing, evaluating, and playing with optimization algorithms. more>>
The goal of this project is to deliver obscure-and-prevalent, old-and-new optimization algorithms from research literature to both research scientists and algorithm practitioners alike. Algorithms include biologically inspired approaches such as evolutionary algorithms (genetic algorithms), swarm algorithms (ants and particle swarm), and immune system algorithms.
Also included are more conventional approaches such as approaches inspired by physics including simulated annealing and extremal optimization. Problem domains include numerical function optimization, traveling salesman problems, and protein folding all with many standard benchmark instances taken from research literature.
A user-friendly graphical interface is provided to rapidly evaluate and compare algorithm and problem configurations, visualize algorithm behavior, and graph algorithm performance over time. A robust, modular, and extensible framework underlies the platform to facilitate the easy addition and modification of algorithms, addition of new problem domains and problem instances as well as facilitate more advanced algorithm experimentation.
The algorithm implementations are extensible and easily support modification and applicaition to varied problem domains. Please report any bugs, feature requests or include your own algorithms by accessing the services on the project home website. This is an open source project (released under the GPL) so the source code is available. The project was compiled with Java 1.5 (update 9).
Enhancements:
- This release includes many framework and graphical interface fixes, as well as a few new algorithms to play with.
Multicast Dissemination Protocol Toolkit 2.1b5
Multicast Dissemination Protocol project is a protocol framework and software toolkit for reliable multicasting data objects. more>>
MDP software has been demonstrated across a range of network architecture and heterogeneous conditions including; the worldwide Internet MBone, bandwidth and routing asymmetric network connections, high delay satellite networks, and mobile, radio networks. MDP integrates numerous multicast protocol advances including highly robust, packet-based erasure correction techniques and adaptive group timing mechanisms.
The present MDP software toolkit includes a library with a well-defined API. Several example working applications including a multicast file transfer applications and a very basic multicast chat application are also provided. To learn more and/or download the software see the following sections.
Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit 0.6
Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit aims at supporting the development of leading-edge medical imaging software. more>>
Main features:
- multiple, consistent views on the same data. For example, when you have three orthogonal 2D-views and a 3D view and data consisting of a green surface, the surface will be visible and green in all views (as contour lines in 2D, as a surface in 3D), and when you move the surface, it will move in all views. When you try to realize this with basic vtk, you will need to coordinate the position/orientation/color/... of all the views somewhere in your program - exactly this can mitk do for you.
- interactions that create and/or modify data (not only actors as in basic vtk)
- complex interactions with multiple states, e.g., for interaction with active contours
- undo/redo of interactions
- organization of data objects in a tree at run-time, e.g., to represent logical dependencies (e.g., a heart cavity is a part of the heart) or to control the rendering process
- additional properties of arbitrary type can be assigned to data objects contained in the data tree
- visualization and interaction with 3D+t data (basic vtk can handle only 3D data and itk is not for visualization and interaction)
- although mitk is mainly a toolkit and not an application, it offers some support on the application-level, e.g, for structured combination of modules (so-called functionalities), e.g., for combining and switching between one functionality for segmentation and another for registration.
Enhancements:
- New functionalities: IsoSurface, ViewInitialization and Measurement.
- Support for ITK 2.4-2.8, VTK 4.4 and 5.0.
- Lots of bugfixes and improvements, e.g. interaction for rotatable slices.
The Kiwi Toolkit 2.2
The Kiwi Toolkit is a foundation class library containing many useful classes that complement the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). more>>
It includes many classes and components that were not provided with the JFC, such as a TreeTable component, a DateChooser, an MVC charting package (bar charts, line charts, pie charts), a plugin framework for Java, an application resource manager (for loading images, icons, HTML pages, audio clips, and other resources from JAR files), a better internationalization API, and much more.
Enhancements:
- This release adds some new classes and includes various bugfixes.
Seismic Toolkit 0.69a
Seismic Toolkit is a tool for processing and displaying seismic signal data in a graphical interface. more>>
Filtering the data: all filters are causal recursive IFR (Infinite Impulse Response) written using the bilinear Z-transform in the time domain. Their conception using a few number of coefficients gives them very fast with a low memory cost.
The adaptation factor of frequency warrants no deformation in the frequency domain of the transfer function. The main filters used are the following: Butterworth High-Pass and Low-Pass (n order), Farrer 10s-6s Low-Pass (a combination of rejector and Low-Pass specially designed for removing oceanic noise), Integrator, Derivator, Integrator with cut-off frequency, Derivator with cut-off frequency, Trend removing, Rejector (n-order), Envelop with Hilbert (not recursive at all), compensator of (n-order), Polynomial filter (n-order, not recursive at all ).
Major Functions:
- Data plotting : channel by channel, all channels, zoom, unzoom, unfilter, instantaneous time and amplitude information with mouse pointer.
- Fourier domain: Power Spectral Density (PSD) in linear-linear, log-log axes; independent windows for each channel, instantaneous frequency and amplitude information with mouse pointer, zoom, unzoom of spectra. Dirac, Hilbert transform, Time-Frequency representation (tested until 1 million of points per channel on 3 channels.
- Polarization : easy and fast particule motion representation in both horizontal plane and incidence plane, with automatic computation of best direction with eigen vectors of the covariance matrix. Display of linearity and planearity coefficient.
Enhancements:
- New package (.deb) for Debian - Ubuntu
- New package (.dmg) for MAC OSX 10.4 (Tiger)
- Add function Derivator _Fc (a derivator with a cutting frequency
- Impose : setlocale(LC_ALL,"C") to avoid regional setting as decimal separator;
SJPT: Simple Java Parsing Toolkit
SJPT: Simple Java Parsing Toolkit is a simple Java parser toolkit. more>>
The toolkit also supports generating Java parsers for all the bottom-up parsing methods, based on a CUP definition (similar to Yacc and CUP, but not restricted to LALR parsers only). I worked alone on this project for the laboratory on Compilers.
SJPT is free software under the terms of the GNU GPL.
The Program Database Toolkit 3.10
The Program Database Toolkit is a powerful tool infrastructure that provides access to the high-level interface of source code. more>>
Many tasks in an integrated programming environment require access to program information for their implementation. Program Database Toolkit (PDT) is a framework for analyzing source code written in several programming languages and for making rich program knowledge accessible to developers of static and dynamic analysis tools.
PDT implements a standard program representation, the program database (PDB), that can be accessed in a uniform way through a class library supporting common PDB operations. Software tools can use this library to accomplish tasks such as
- documentation of program components
- creation of graphic program browsers that show class hierarchies, function call graphs, and template instantiations
- insertion of instrumentation for performance profiling and tracing; andgeneration of interface details for calling library routines or buildinginterlanguage bindings.
Enhancements:
- Assorted minor bugfixes.
Mimas Toolkit 2.1
Mimas Toolkit is a C++ computer vision toolkit. more>>
Mimas Toolkit project also includes many implementations of traditional algorithms such as Canny. It was developed for GNU/Linux but as the GUI is largely separate, porting to other platforms should be straightforward.
Mimas was originally conceived as a platform for real-time machine vision research. Its aim was and still is to reduce the turnaround time of new research into the application workspace. It is written in C++ and is released in source code form subject to the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Mimas has been used to build a number of vision systems including for two European Union sponsored projects, namely MINIMAN (completed in 2002) and MiCRoN (expected to complete in the 3rd quarter of 2005). Mimas is also being used to build a number of customised vision solutions for academia and industry. As such, if you do require a vision-based solution then please contact the authors of this software.
Main features:
- generic image class (greylevel and colour)
- low level image processing
- frequency domain processing
- variety of recognition methods
- variety of tracking methods
- active contours
- comprehensive matrix library
- variety of statistical operations
- associative neural network
- multi-layer perceptrons ANN
- image capture
- various example interfaces
Mimas is designed to be platform independent from the ground-up. Hence a user interface is not built-in. Rather Mimas acts as the engine of a vision system. Since it is written in C++, we recommend that you use the GPL-ed version of the cross-platform Qt toolkit or the Mozilla XP toolkit for building user interfaces.
BeleniX ISO Remastering Toolkit Alpha1
BeleniX ISO Remastering Toolkit consists of a set of shell scripts, utilities and config files to customize a Belenix ISO image. more>>
Remastering BeleniX requires a bit of work. Though the scripts automate most of the process, this is the initial version of this software so some enhancements are still in the TODO stage.
Enhancements:
- This is the first release of the ISO Remastering Tookit for BeleniX.
- It allows one to create customized LiveCDs based on BeleniX.
- The HOWTO describes the process in detail.
Generic Information Server Toolkit 2.1.7
Generic Information Server Toolkit is a free tool kit for the development of interactive Web sites. more>>
GIST removes the technical barriers traditionally associated with creating interactive web sites.
It has been specifically designed to allow user communities to share information and communicate more effectively without the need for a full-time technical web master.
GIST provides support for managing user definable information objects, so you dont write any CGI programs or SQL in your HTML, or worry about indexing your data: GIST does it for you.
You define your data and its structure and GIST takes care of adding, changing, deleting and indexing it, allowing you to focus on the important issues of providing the features and facilities your user community expect and demand.
Traditional approaches to web-based-publishing involve a centralised ``webmaster or group of webmasters responsible for the provision of information contained within the site and for its maintenance. As the site grows, the cost of maintenance increases.
The prototyping activities undertaken by the Joint Rresearch Center of the European Commission (JRC) provide an alternative approach to populating and maintaining a web site, in which each member of the user community is responsible for maintaining their own information. The G7/GELOS1 server is a working example of the technology involved.
GIST is an effort undertaken by the JRC to build on the success of this prototyping activity and to generalise their functionality in a reusable component library for the construction of dynamic, user community based Information Servers. GIST allows users without programming skills to create a web server with a data model and user interface of their own design.
GIST makes it easier to build an Information Server by providing the software components required for common tasks.
In particular GIST provides facilities for: submission of information by members of a user community modification and deletion of information presentation of information search and browse user registration and user interface configuration user authentication and authorisation automatic validation of user input server configuration and definition of policy rules Regardless of the style of information it contains any Information Server needs to allow its user community to interact with it; in particular to populate and maintain the contents of its information store, and to view the information contributed by other members of the community.
Search and browse facilities are indispensable for all but the smallest of databases; there is no point storing information if no-one can ever find it.
GIST ensures that users are prevented from changing information that they are not authorised to change, and that database integrity is maintained at all times.
Various configuration options are available so that the server may be tailored the server behaviour to the needs of the community; of particular note is the ability to define local policy rules to be applied when the information store is modified.
CentralNic Toolkit 0.23
The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNics system for instantaneous Registry-Registrar Communications. more>>
CentralNic Toolkit also provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.
All the software developed for the Toolkit system is Open Source, and is developed in a participatory manner, relying on cooperation with our user base. Users of the software are encouraged to submit bugs, suggestions, feature requests and patches.
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for the new account management functions that allow automation of payment batches.