Negative Space: tutorial
- AppleScript Basics
- Basic AppleScript to automate the use of your Macintosh.
- Carnival of HTML
- Creating basic web pages with straight HTML code and a pre-existing style sheet.
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Working with CSS to turn a basic web page into something that draws attention to all the right places.
- Come to Valhalla
- Valhalla is—or was—a MOO. MOO is a ‘programming language’ for creating multi-user dungeons (MUD). MOO is object oriented (thus, MUD, Object Oriented). MOO was created by Pavel Curtis and Xerox PARC, who are to be commended for their work. While MOO is ancient technology, there are still people who find it fun and useful.
- Django: Beyond the SQL
- Django is a great application framework for Python and web applications. You can use it to greatly speed up your database and application development both on the web and on the command line. This tutorial is currently a very rough draft; it probably won’t be very useful without the assistance of someone who knows Django running the tutorial. If I ever run this tutorial a second time, I’ll probably update it with screenshots to make it more usable for individuals.
- Easy Web Design
- Creating basic web pages with Netscape Composer/SeaMonkey.
- Evaluating Information
- Some things on the net are true, some things are not, and many are both. If you want to believe impossible things before breakfast, however, you can do so just as easily off the net as on the net. The best evaluation techniques will work for any information, not just Internet information. We have never been able to trust the printed word.
- Gender Neutral Instructions
- Writing for all of your readers.
- JavaScript for Beginners
- Basic JavaScript to enhance your viewers’ reading experience.
- Joy of Access
- What the net has to offer you. This tutorial is quite old, and hasn’t been updated since the last century. I’m leaving it available mostly for historical reasons. I’m not likely to write a newer version.
- MySQL for Other Applications
- The basics of working with MySQL for users of other applications such as Dreamweaver, PHP, Perl, or Python.
- Perls Before Swine
- A basic Perl tutorial covering reading files, filtering files, importing into SQL databases, and displaying on the web.
- Persistence of Text
- A series of useful Persistence of Vision tutorials, starting with the very basics of simple object creation and progressing to automation and the usefulness of math.
- Persistence of Vision Basics
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The basics of ray-tracing three-dimensional images with Persistence of Vision. Learn about cameras, light sources, and how to move objects around in your POV scenes.
- Persistence of Vision Macintosh Basics
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This tutorial will get you acquainted with the most important preferences and menu items in Persistence of Vision for the Mac, including editing your scene file and creating animations.
- PHP: Hot Pages
- Basic PHP to store form data and maintain sessions.
- POV is Trig
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If you understand triangles and their functions, you can more easily determine where rotated objects end up. Use trigonometry to calculate lengths when you rotate objects in Persistence of Vision.
- Scripting Persistence of Vision
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POV’s built-in scripting feature allows you to both simplify your scene creation and make much more complex scenes. Using scripting to make complex and redundant three dimensional objects.
- Simple Photorealism using Persistence of Vision
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Simple photorealism for people who can’t draw. This tutorial guides you through using the free Persistence of Vision ray-tracer. You’ll create a planet, with rings and an orbiting moon set against a starry background.
- Six-Sided Dice
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Use the superellipsoid and a little bit of CSG to create a very realistic six-sided die. The superellipsoid lets you create rounded boxes in your Persistence of Vision scenes.
- Spent Bullet Casing
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Use lathes, constructive solid geometry, text, cylinders, and superellipsoids to create a spent bullet casing from a .40 S&W using Persistence of Vision.
- Ten-sided dice
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The intersection of multiple shapes is often one of the least understood features of constructive solid geometry. Here we’ll create a ten-sided die using the intersection of planes.
- Text logo with a super-imposed image
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Use constructive solid geometry and image maps to create a text logo from photographs or other images.
- Web Design for the Rest of Them
- Prepare yourself to enter the mid-1990s, when not all browsers supported tables, let alone javascript and style sheets. This ancient tutorial discusses writing pages to support browsers with varying support of the new-fangled web.
