Ross Moore's Home Page

I am working on other projects and will get around to making this more interesting in due course, RSN.

RSN = ``real soon now'' ; or

``Rather Sooner than Never''

``Ross is Slow at New things''

• Maths Dept. Picture Gallery
• Vacation Scholars 1995
• Vacation Scholars 1996
• Bush Band
• Mathematical Sculpture
• Jane Austen Society
• Feathered Friends
• Mathematics at Macquarie...Staff
• Mathematics at Macquarie...Current Research

• MATH 130 Mathematics 1E
• MATH 132 Mathematics 1A (Advanced)
• MATH 337 D1 Algebra IIIA (daytime)
• MATH 337 E1 Algebra IIIA (evening)

Research interests

LaTeX2HTML

This program, written in Perl, is for translating documents marked-up using LaTeX-like syntax into well-structured HTML pages.
It works with Unix, Linux, Windows-NT, OS/2 and even DOS.

Originally devised by Nikos Drakos, this has been extended to become a really useful translation tool, producing very nice images of mathematics (for instance), and capable of handling quite intricate technical documents.
See the online manual for details.

The above course descriptions, and the exercise sheets and solutions to which they link, were prepared using this tool.

Here are some more examples, created locally:

• National Symposium in Mathematics
• a Geo-Mathematics paper
• Quantum Groups, see below
• Xy-pic User's Guide, see below

Xy-pic

Written originally by Kristoffer Rose, (of DIKU, Denmark) it has undergone extensive revision and extension over the past couple of years.

Basically, Kris provides the computing structures while I contribute mathematical ideas; though sometimes it is the other way round.

Check out the Xy-pic Home Page

Peruse the Xy-pic User's Guide to see the power and versatility of these macros.

From the younger continents in the world, it may be easier to visit Kris Rose's home: Xy-pic at BRICS.

Try here to get the latest version of Xy-pic, version 3.7: local ftp site.

Alternatively a CTAN site may be more convenient:

• by ftp, from a mirror site in Australia: UNSW, Sydney.
• by ftp: Univ of Queensland.
• use the search engine (very convenient!): .
• or find the one nearest you.

Quantum Groups

Mathematica Graphics

Indeed, here is a QuickTime movie of such a reconstructed inclusion surface, viewed from different angles, so apparently rotating: Spiral Movie (354k) .

Other uses of Mathematica for Geo-physical modelling are described in a Geo-Mathematics paper, to be published in a special volume of Computers & Geosciences, late in 1999.

Here is a Mathematica Notebook containing frames for a movie of a reconstruction of foliation surfaces forming a ``millipede'' microstructure: Millipede (431k)

Here are some QuickTime movies of the same thing, sectioned in different ways:

• Millipede, YZ-sections (1MB+)
• Millipede, XZ-sections (800k)
• Millipede, XY-sections (820k)

• Macintosh: Simple Player, or many other utils.
• Unix: XAnim Rev 2.69.7.7,(2 May 95), by Mark Podlipec.
• Unix: XAnim Rev 2.68.5,(23 Aug 94), by Mark Podlipec.
• Windows: QuickTime for Windows

 MPCE Home Page         ross@ics.mq.edu.au :  18 Jan 1995