Releases for Friday 05/16/2008
Gephex is a modular video jockey software.
The base visuals can be chosen from sources like video files or
cameras. Then they can be modified by filters and mixers. Each
modifier has several parameters, that can be controlled by
signal-generators, input devices like joysticks, sound cards,
or midi-devices.
Gephex runs on GNU/Linux, Win32, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. The effect
engine is independent from the user interface, which can be de-
and attached at runtime. All effects and media streams are
extendible by plugins. Gephex is written in C++.
Authors: see file AUTHORS
The JOGL Project hosts a reference implementation of the Java bindings for
OpenGL API, and is designed to provide hardware-supported 3D graphics to
applications written in the Java programming language.
It is part of a suite of open-source technologies initiated bu the Game
Technology Group at Sun Microsystems.
JOGL provides full access to the APIs in the OpenGL 1.5 specification as
well as nearly all vendor extensions, and integrated with the AWT and Swing
widget sets.
This JACK program is a port of the free VST plugin AZR-3. It is
a tonewheel organ with drawbars, distortion and rotating speakers.
The original was written by Rumpelrausch Täips.
The organ has three sections, two polyphonic with 9 drawbars each
and one monophonic bass section with 5 drawbars. The two polyphonic
sections respond to events on MIDI channel 1 and 2, and an optional
keyboard split function makes the bass section listen to the lower
keys on channel 1.
The three sections have separate sustain and percussion switches
as well as separate volume controls, and the two polyphonic sections
have separate vibrato settings. All three sections are mixed and
sent through the distortion effect and the rotating speakers
simulator, where the modulation wheel can be used to switch between
fast and slow rotation, and the fast and slow rotation speeds
themselves can be changed separately for the lower and upper
frequencies.
Author: Lars Luthman
Cairo-dock was in the beginning a small simple but effective dock.
On 4th July 2007, Fabounet proposes to us a version improved,
with a very ergonomic configuration, on the ubuntu-fr.org forum.
Since, new versions are followed at an intensive pace and with
their new functionalities like the sub-docks, the effects on
the launchers ... Many people are grafted with the project,
each one bringing its competences, of graphics, to the applet
or plugins and development.
That package provides plugins for cairo-dock
lzma is a very powerful program for compressing files.
* Average compression ratio of LZMA is about 30% better than that of
gzip, and 15% better than that of bzip2.
* Decompression speed is only little slower than that of gzip, being
two to five times faster than bzip2.
* In fast mode, compresses faster than bzip2 with a comparable
compression ratio.
* Achieving the best compression ratios takes four to even twelve
times longer than with bzip2. However. this doesn't affect
decompressing speed.
* Very similar command line interface than what gzip and bzip2 have.
Authors:
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Igor Pavlov
Ville Koskinen
Lasse Collin