This appendix contains a selected list of Java Applets offered by a variety of authors and vendors. A more complete list of Java Applets can be found in the Gamelan index at http://www.gamelan.com/.
Author: Luis Fernandes
URL: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus.html
Description: An online abacus with a tutorial
Figure H.1. Luis Fernandes' Abacus Applet enables users to learn to use an abacus.
Author: Ben Librojo
URL: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~benl/invasion/inv_intro.html
Description: An arcade-style game
URL: http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vbart
Description: A simulation of San Francisco's subway system
Author: Henrik Eriksson
URL: http://www.ida.liu.se/~her/npp/demo.html
Description: Simulation of a nuclear power plant that enables the user to control the plant
Author: Peter Parnes
URL: http://www.cdt.luth.se/~peppar/Curtain_java.html
Description: Opens a curtain to display an image
Author: Maria Winslow
URL: http://prominence.com/java/poetry/
Description: Create poetry by dragging words around on the screen
URL: http://www.geom.umn.edu/~rminer/jmath/
Description: Displays Equations defined in HTML 3
Author: Erik Wistrand
URL: http://www.ivee.com/~wistrand/fireworks/
Description: Adds fireworks to a page
Author: Paton Lewis
URL: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pjl/fontviewer.html
Description: Enables users to view Java fonts and character codes
Authors: The SEP Group at Stanford
URL: http://sepwww.stanford.edu/pub/sep/krl/FrogPond/FrogPond.html
Description: Simulates the waves generated by a frog jumping in a pond
Figure H.2. Learn about waves with the Frog Pond applet from the SEP Group at Stanford.
Author: Rich Barrette
URL: http://www.ohiou.edu/~rbarrett/java/rich/gifslider/
Description: Slides an image across the page
Author: Paul Haeberli
URL: http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/impression/
Description: Creates abstract renditions of GIF images
Author: Mirko Bulaja
URL: http://student.math.hr/~mbuly/jsrc/ochi.html
Description: Displays a pair of eyes that follow the mouse pointer as long as it's inside the Applet's area
Author: Chris Seguin
URL: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/juggling/
Description: A juggling tutorial
Figure H.3. Learn to juggle with Chris Seguin's juggling applet.
Description: Holds conversations with the user about a range of topics, including Buddhism
Author: Kelly Jo Brown
URL: http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/observe/exhibit/reference/module/orbits/orbit_sim.html
Description: An interactive satellite orbit simulator
Author: Richard Sexton
URL: http://vvv.com/m2/public_html/m2java.html
Description: Displays an animated starfield
Author: Suresh Srinivasan
URL: http://www.thomtech.com/~suresh/java/beta/
Description: A slide projector with audio support
Author: Mark Tacchi
URL: http://www.europa.com/~mlt/sunclock.html
Description: Shows where the sun is shining on a map in real-time
URL: http://w3.gwis.com/~thorn/telnet/
Description: A Telnet client with ANSI emulation
URL: http://www.unige.ch/hotjava/HotSIBIL.html
Description: An IBM 3270 Terminal Emulator
Author: Zilun Gong
URL: http://java.science.yorku.ca/~zilun/3D/cflag.html
Description: A flying Canadian flag
Figure H.4. The Canadian flag can wave on a Web page using Zilun Gong's Waving flag applet.
Author: Mark Sherman
URL: http://www.microsurf.com/WebDraw
Description: Enables two users on the Net to draw together on a shared page
Author: Patrick Amato
URL: http://www.it.hq.nasa.gov/~amato/Work/Java/Amato/Weights/Weight.html
Description: Users can calculate their weight on other planets
