Flight Aviary, Melbourne Zoo

The AVIARY VR-system. A Prototype Implementation

The AVIARY project at the University of Manchester has sought to understand the needs of a mature VR-based environment in which diverse applications co-exist, and in which the need for perceptual coherency of the environment is also crucial. A novel feature of AVIARY is that multiple, worlds may concurrently exist, each with its own set of laws which may be tailored to suit particular applicati...

Wire(less)tapping in the Aviary

Grammar Zoo

In this paper we describe composition of a corpus of grammars in a broad sense in order to enable reuse of knowledge accumulated in the field of grammarware engineering. The Grammar Zoo displays the results of grammar hunting for big grammars of mainstream languages, as well as collecting grammars of smaller DSLs and extracting grammatical knowledge from other places. It is already operational ...

The Zoo Visitor: Who’s Who in the Zoo

Zoo/PhytoImage version 1

Planktonic organisms constitute the base of many aquatic food webs. Indeed zooplankton is the key mediator between energy synthesized by phytoplankton and higher trophic levels. Because plankton can vary quickly in term of abundance and biomass according to variations of environmental conditions, it constitutes a significant bio-indicator of global changes like increasing of atmospheric CO 2 , ...