Installing Security VTK on Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a great platform for 3D visualization. It includes OpenGL as standard, which means many existing libraries and applications can easily be ported to the platform. One such library is the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), an open source project run by Kitware, Inc. VTK is at a level above OpenGL:…
Cocoa for Scientists (Part XXIX): This is the Message
In our last installment, we began a journey into the world of lowish-level networking on Mac OS X and iPhone. The first tutorial introduced the topic, and delved into Bonjour, which is a framework that helps devices find each other. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how you…
Xcode/gfortran Contest Winner: Damien Bobillot
NOTE: This plugin will not work with Xcode 2.5 or 3.0. And will not work in Leopard at all. The plugin will work on Mac OS X Tiger with Xcode 2.4. UPDATE UPDATE UPATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE A newer version of the plugin, installer and gfortran is now available….
Fixing Broken LaTeX Fonts in Leopard
Some of you may notice that applications using Apple’s PDF rendering engine under Leopard will not properly render certain documents created with LaTeX. It seems that in some cases, a corrupted font cache is to blame. To fix this problem execute the following commands in Terminal and then reboot:sudo rm…
Five Minutes with Apple
If you had five minutes with the leadership of Apple’s Security Science division, what would you ask? What are the biggest open questions for Science on the Mac? And what should Apple do to get more/better scientific apps to the Mac? If you have a view, let us know in…
Cocoa for Scientists (XXIV): Core Animation First Steps
Arguably the most important change in Leopard was not a user feature, but a developer one: Core Animation. Over the coming years, the way applications look and react to user interaction will change dramatically, and that will be largely due to the ease with which interfaces can be animated with…
Tutorial: Mixed C and Fortran…and some LAPACK
A recent question in one of the discussion forum led to the general question of using some of the performance libraries in Mac OS X with a specific emphasis on mixing C and Fortran, as well as implied data types in LAPACK. In this mini-tutorial I’m going to cover some…
NFS exports on Leopard
If you have several “unixy” workstations on your network that need to talk to your Mac, you’ll likely want to use NFS. In my case, I have a few Linux machines around and also an old SGI O2, that I keep around mainly for nostalgia reasons (I sat at one throughout my grad school…
What’s New on the Leopard Command Line?
Each new release of Mac OS X brings with it a range of new command-line tools, many of which go unnoticed. Not only are these tools useful, they also tell the story of the evolution of the OS. Leopard is no exception, so armed with a couple of old and…
Tutorial: Intro to Core Animation
Core Animation, you’ve been hearing about how great it is, how it makes animation easier and how cool it is. Well you’re about to find out first hand that all of the things you’ve heard are TRUE. We’ll cover a little background first and then jump into a simple Cocoa…
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