David L. Thompson wrote: > If you find a dead link or have more info you'd like to contribute > to the OpenDX website, please notify me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Though I did not find dead links in the OpenDX WWW pages, I read the pages when trying to understand the status and health of DX. With regard to the page Community Links http://www.opendx.org/community.html the dates of the links are the following: ------------------------------------------------------ University of Montana Computer Science Department http://www.cs.umt.edu/DX/ Last updated 12/4/96 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 1996 The page Data Explorer Example Data http://www.cs.umt.edu/DX/data.htm has the comment "Not yet implemented" Last updated 12/4/96 ------------------------------------------------------ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Advanced Computer Graphics and Data Visualization - Term Projects http://www.rpi.edu/~citrit/VisClass/Proj95/ Fall 1995 semester <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 1995 ------------------------------------------------------ Penn State Data Explorer Information Center at PSU Wednesday October 21, 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 1998 DX user group at PSU Currently the Data Explorer User Group is in a state of creation. DX repository coming soon Since 1998 the DX User Group is still in the state of being created and the repository is still "coming soon". ------------------------------------------------------ Oregan State University CS450/550: Introduction to Computer Graphics http://www.cs.orst.edu/~tgd/classes/450/450.html CS 450/550, Winter 1996, <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 1995 Introduction to Computer Graphics. ------------------------------------------------------ Facility for Ocean/Atmospheric Modeling and Visualization - North Carolina State University http://www2.ncsu.edu/eos/service/pams/meas/www/foamv/ I did not find any mention of DX on the various pages of the visualization group. The page ...foamv has a link that says in 1999 OpenDX became public domain. Judging from the description of the recent work, it would seem the DX has been forgotten by NC State. ------------------------------------------------------ Visualizations Using OpenDX at Dartmouth http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/ac/unix/services/dx.html References on that page are around the years 1992 and 1995. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 1992-1995 On their page, the link Cornell Theory Center (http://www.tc.cornell.edu:80/DX/) is dead, which indicates that the Dartmouth page is old. ------------------------------------------------------ Cornell Theory Center http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Services/Vis/dx/index.asp Computer Science 418 taught in 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<< 1998 Sampling one item in the repository, it was written in 1995. I may be mistaken, but my impression is that most contributions are from the 1995 era. ------------------------------------------------------ SUMMARY. If a person uses the Community Links page to judge the health of DX, it would seem that interest peaked in 1995 and in recent years it has been forgotten. For example, we see examples of DX being used to teach courses around 1995-1998 but we do not see analogous courses in 2000-2001 that use DX, whereas one would expect graphics courses to be repeated. I like OpenDX and I appreciate the support that is being given for software that is available free. I simply want to explain the impression I get when reading the OpenDX WWW pages. (I think my approach is one of the ways a person normally tries to assess the current "health" of a sofware project.) best regards, Alan Scheinine
