Experiment

Space Commander is a game that aims to be similar to Elite and Privateer, with maybe a bit of Trade Wars thrown in. The project is a remarkably functional space simulation with under 200 lines of code in the main file. DEPENDENCIES You need a recent version of Python and some support...

openModeller project is a generic framework for carrying out fundamental niche modelling experiments - typically used to predict species distribution given a set of environmental raster layers. The openModeller Desktop application builds on the openModeller library by providing a user friendly...

Obol is part of a project to investigate properties of security protocols, what they are, how they behave, how they interact, how to deal with them. The Obol language grew out of a desire to escape the distractions of low-level implementation efforts, and the need to experiment and express...


Platforms: *nix

RPM Delta Compression Virtual Update Repository is an experiment to explore the possibility of significantly reducing the bandwidth required to apply updates to a Fedora installation. This software includes a server which provides a virtual update repository to clients such as yum, up2date, or...


Platforms: *nix

The tecla library provides UNIX and LINUX programs with interactive command line editing facilities, similar to those of the unix tcsh shell. In addition to simple command-line editing, it supports recall of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file names, and in-line wild-card...


Platforms: *nix

Joeq is a virtual machine and compiler infrastructure designed to facilitate research in virtual machine technologies such as Just-In-Time and Ahead-Of-Time compilation, advanced garbage collection techniques, distributed computation, sophisticated scheduling algorithms, and advanced run time...


Platforms: *nix

Minas provides a Java application which simulates bridge construction. Minas is a bridge simulation program. The name is actually Sindarin for "tower". Thats because the codebase originally came from a program that evolutionary creates towers and builds them higher and higher. After the towers...


Platforms: *nix

The Restaurant Game is a research project at the MIT Media Lab that will algorithmically combine the gameplay experiences of thousands of players to create a new game. In a few months, we will apply machine learning algorithms to data collected through the multiplayer Restaurant Game, and produce...


Platforms: Mac

ATmission is a Fedora-based Linux live CD that enables you to experiment with the Linux operating system and other open source software, without the requirement to install Linux on your PC. The ATmission Live CD contains the KDE desktop, OpenOffice.org, and many other application programs....


Platforms: *nix

Sysmon-NG is derived from cynapses-karamba that can monitor your CPU, memory and network. This is an early-stage experiment to make the theme look more like I want it to. Green digital numbers, and the presence of red bars drawn underneath RAM and disk space, are the most readily apparent...


Platforms: *nix

PyRPM is an experimental project to look at rpm package management. It is a python module and a collection of scripts that provide similar functionality as rpm, yum and co. It is written from ground up and is implemented only in python. PyRPM project mainly deals with rpm packages, the rpm...


Platforms: *nix

GraphViz is a Perl interface to the GraphViz graphing tool. SYNOPSIS use GraphViz; my $g = GraphViz->new(); $g->add_node(London); $g->add_node(Paris, label => City ofnlurve); $g->add_node(New York); $g->add_edge(London => Paris); $g->add_edge(London => New York, label => Far);...


Platforms: *nix

mod_litbook is an alternate method for referencing documents. mod_litbook is an experiment in web techonology - an experiment in document reference and retrieval is at the core of this module. Although the initial "Proof of Concept" is the King James Bible, the concept has a broader range of...


Platforms: *nix

fsc2 is a program running under Linux for controlling spectrometers. Programs for remote control of spectrometers usually are home-written and often restricted to doing a certain set of experiments with only a fixed set of devices. In contrast, fsc2 is much more flexible because it was written...


Platforms: *nix

jrMan is an open source version of the REYES rendering algorithm used by Pixars PhotoRealistic Renderman. Almost all digital production work in the film industry is rendered using this algorithm, yet most computer graphics textbooks fail to mention it or only provide a very superficial...


Platforms: *nix

3dfile is a simple file browser, using OpenGL to display files and folders. The navigation is also very simple: just point-and-click. You may also experiment your favorite moves on it and see if it responds. It may or it may not. Anyway, I think 3dfile is very intuitive and easy to use. If...


Platforms: *nix

Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read. If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them, you will probably find it useful. Configuration Files While style preferences vary, most people would agree that it is important to...


Platforms: *nix

Fractanoid project is an experiment in multithreaded programming to allow the processing load to be split across multiple cores in a computer. The image area is first split into 200×200 pixel blocks, each of these blocks is stashed into a list which is being monitored by a series of threads...


Platforms: *nix

Project Elevate is an attempt to free users from the desktop metaphor. Project Elevate offers a fixed set of applications which allow casual users to perform the most usual tasks with their computer. I dont like the way current desktop environments look and feel. I find them too complicated...


Platforms: *nix

EASEA project is a language dedicated to the specification of evolutionary algorithms. EAsea Specification of Evolutionary Algorithms (EASEA), is a high-level language dedicated to the specification of evolutionary algorithms. The language and compiler are quite mature. EASEA compiles .ez...


Platforms: *nix