The Web with Integrated Applications

a medley of examples
collected by Erich Neuwirth

This sound example need a MIDI Plugin or a MIDI Player

These examples were used during a presentation at EDMEDIA 96 in Boston in June 1996.
Almost all of the examples need helper applications or plugins.
The examples have only been tested with Netscape 3.0 under Windows 3.1, and the plugins or helper applications in many cases are not available for UNIX or MacIntosh machines.

Introductory examples

• Retirement payments in Austria
  Needs Microsoft Excel
• Brownian motion
  Needs MswLogo, a freeware implementation of LOGO for Windows.

Virtual reality and 3D models

• Architecture, Potsdamer Platz and Virtual reality
  
  • The original site
  Needs a Quicktime VR viewer or plugin
• Asian museum in San Francisco, Mongolian exhibition
  • The original site
  Also uses Quicktime VR
• Molecule structures
  
  • The original site Uses ChemScape Chime plugin
• Origami in VRML
  • The original site
  Netscape 3.0 has VRML plugin

Music (and mathematics)

• More music (Bach)
  Needs a MIDI player or plugin. Netscape 3.0 has one.
• Escher's staircase, acoustically
  Needs an AVI player or plugin. Netscape 3.0 has one.

Learning how to use software

• A trick in Excel
  Needs Lotus ScreenCam player

Learning mathematics and statistics

• Music again: sound generation
  Needs Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Excel 5, will not run on any other platform
• Wheels, rotation and symmetry
  Needs Microsoft Excel 5 or higher
• Visualizing correlation with Excel
  Needs Microsoft Excel 5 or higher
• Visualizing correlation with Formula/One
  Needs Formula One plugin
• Some more Formula/One examples
• Visualizing statistics with Excel
  • Binomial simulations with Excel
  • Central Limit Theorem Excel
• Visualizing statistics with XlispStat
  XLispStat is a LISP based statistics environment available for MS Windows, MacIntosh, And UNIX.
  • Visualizing correlation with XlispStat
  • Fiddling with a regression line
  • Rotating a data set
• Again, visualizing correlation
  This time at the movies!
  Needs Microsoft MOVIE Player installed.
• Curves with MathCad
  Runs with MathCad (commercial software) or free MathBrowser
• Mathematical lecture notes
  Needs Adobe Acrobat viewer or plugin

Javascript examples

• Interest calculation
  JavaScript is a runtime environment built into NetScape 2.02 and higher
• Currency conversion

Finally, music again

• Mozart's dice minuet
  Needs a browser capable of playing MIDI files