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Free e-Book Downloads & Computer Art. AskWhy! Publications
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© Dr M D Magee
Contents Updated: Friday, 2 May 2008
- E-Books
- Free Software Programs
- Free Windows Software Programs
- Free Miscellaneous Software Programs
- AskWhy! DHTML Art DHTML, mainly interactive, art novelties making use of scripts by Gerard Ferrandez, aka ge1doot, whose amazing website at http://www.dhteumeuleu.com is well worth a look if you are interested in the dynamic artistic potential of DHTML, Javascript and DOM, therefore best seen in Firefox, though IE is also usually OK.
- AskWhy! SVG Art PHP and SVG can easily make nice images too. Some browsers like Firefox include the capability for simple svg, but others need a plug in like Adobe’s, and with it have more SVG capability, such as animation. The plug in can be used for Firefox too if animation is needed. Here is a dead easy abstract art consisting of random colored triangles:
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This is the basic code for making a set of silver triangles. Once you can do that, you can make any svg abstract art you like with a little additional SVG and PHP coding.
<?php header("Content-type: image/svg+xml");
$svgwidth="500";
$svgheight="400";
?>
<svg version="1.1"
baseProfile="full"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events">
<a xlink:href="http://www.askwhy.co.uk/adelphiasophism/" target="_blank">
width="<?php echo $svgwidth;?>"
height="<?php echo $svgheight;?>">
<desc>This is a random triangle test</desc>
<?php
$x = 0; $y = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i < 20; $i++) {
$x0 = rand(1,$svgwidth-1);
$y0 = rand(1,$svgheight-1);
$x1 = rand(1,$svgwidth-1);
$y1 = rand(1,$svgheight-1);
$x2 = rand(1,$svgwidth-1);
$y2 = rand(1,$svgheight-1);
print "\t<polygon points='$x0,$y0 $x1,$y1 $x2,$y2' style=
'fill:#ccc; stroke:#000; stroke-width:2'/>\n";
}
?>
</a>
</svg>
The program here is called splinters1.php (click to download as a zip file), and it produces this:
E-Books
These compiled files can be freely copied and distributed but remain the copyright of their authors and AskWhy! Publications. The copyright only restricts alteration of the texts and unattributed use of them, not distribution. Anyone can download and distribute these free books from their own website.
- To Download—right-click any Download link. Chose “Save Target As…”, or its equivalent, then use the dialogue which appears to save the file wherever you want it.
Some need to be unzipped using a utility such as WinZip (freely available to try from the web or in many magazine cover disks). The EXE file extracted from the ZIP file is simply compiled HTML. Clicking the file name or double clicking it, according to your setup, automatically loads your web browser and lets you read it. The pdf files need the Adobe Acrobat reader, also freely available. Clicking on a pdf file automatically loads Adobe Acrobat, if you have it, and reads the file.
PDF Format
- The Secret Testament ebook
- Christian Book Burning ebook
- Christianity ebook—Preliminaries
- Christianity Revealed ebook—Seeking the Historical Jesus
- Christianity Revealed ebook—Judaism and the Jewish Sects
- Christianity Revealed ebook—Christianity and the Essenes
January 2005 pdf Download our e-book, The Secret Testament Revealed Here is one of our pdf pages, compiled from the original html one (453KB).
Christian Book Burning ebook
January 2005 pdf Download our e-book, Did Christians Destroy Classical Culture and Create the Dark Ages?
Compiled by Omniformat from the original html ones (542KB) online.
May 2003 pdf Download our e-book, Christianity Revealed—Preliminaries (342KB),
Christianity Revealed ebook—Seeking the Historical JesusMay 2003 pdf Download our e-book, Christianity Revealed—Seeking the Historical Jesus (354KB).
Christianity Revealed ebook—Judaism and the Jewish SectsMay 2003 pdf Download our e-book, Christianity Revealed—Judaism and the Jewish Sects (397KB).
Christianity Revealed ebook—Christianity and the EssenesMay 2003 pdf Download our e-book, Christianity Revealed—Christianity and the Essenes (397KB).
Those compiled by Omniformat which makes use of pdf995. Find them with a websearch for Omniformat or pdf995. To read, needs Adobe Acrobat, available free.
PC Exe Format Zipped
- Ancient Crucified Saviours ebook
- The Divine Crisis ebook
- Ancient Israel—History or Myth ebook
- The Name of God ebook
- Was God Persian? ebook
- The Persian Foundation of Judaism ebook
- God’s Truth, Pious Lies ebook
- Adelphiasophism ebook
- Judith and Joshua ebook
- The Nikos Memorandum ebook
June 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, Ancient Crucified Saviours (935KB), which shows that in Pagan times, the sun was seen as the saviour of mankind and the son of God (the heavens, Zeus, Jupiter). The sun was crucified on its ascent into heaven in the first part of the year and again when it descended in the second, at the equinoxes. These are the origins of the crucifixion myth.
The Divine Crisis ebookApril 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, The Divine Crisis (826KB), the first book in a series examining the Jewish scriptures and the origins of the Jewish religion. The "Divine Crisis" is the failure of history to confirm so-called biblical history. Historically the scriptures are largely untrue. At best they are historical metaphor or imperfect allegory. The historical problems and the attitude of "biblicists," defenders of the bible as truth, are examined.
Ancient Israel—History or Myth ebookMay 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, Ancient Israel—History or Myth (830KB), the second book in a series examining the Jewish scriptures and the origins of the Jewish religion. Here we look at the Israel of the pre-Persian period.
The Name of God ebookMay 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, The Name of God (879KB), a book in a series examining the Jewish scriptures and the origins of the Jewish religion. The Name of God explores the changes brought about in the religion of the Canaanites by the Persians.
Was God Persian? ebookMay 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, Was God Persian? (943KB), another book in the series examining the Jewish scriptures and the origins of the Jewish religion. Here we look at the relationship between Judaism and the Persian religion.
The Persian Foundation of Judaism ebookMay 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, The Persian Foundation of Judaism (984KB), continuing the series examining the Jewish scriptures and the origins of the Jewish religion. Here we look at the foundation of Judaism by the Persian priests, Nehemiah and Ezra, and the Persian allusions in Haggai and Zechariah, utterly misunderstood by wilful scholars.
God’s Truth, Pious Lies ebookMarch 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, God’s Truth, Pious Lies (736KB), a discussion of the methods used to deceive people by evangelists as exemplified by the notorious Reverend Dr Ernest Phibber, DD.
Adelphiasophism ebookMarch 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, Adelphiasophism (1287KB), the best part of our companion site adelphiasophism.com in e-book form.
Judith and Joshua ebookMarch 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, Judith and Joshua (782KB) by S Peta of Nazareth, our contribution to future scripture, a future biblical romantic novella.
The Nikos Memorandum ebookMarch 2001 PC exe Download our e-book, The Nikos Memorandum (619KB), a disturbing report linking UFOs and the extinction of the dinosaurs, filed by a correspondent just before she died unexpectedly.
Those compiled using EasyPDF and "Sbookbuilder4" by Jansoft, great FREE programs that put publishing in the hands of everyone with a PC. Find them with a websearch for Jansoft or Jan Verhoeven.
Free Software Programs
The following simple programs are free and can be freely distributed. They are not copyrighted!
- Christian Inclination Test
- Cluster Analysis Software Program
- FIBA Sermonizer
- AskWhy! Publications Lottery Selector
- AskWhy! Publications Convert All
- AskWhy! Publications RGB Color Selector
Download a simple 60 item quiz (9KB) to test your Christian inclinations. Grades you on five qualities: acceptance, compassion, confidence, conservatism and intolerance, giving you a percentage for each and relates them to the needs of Christianity. See it.
Cluster Analysis Software ProgramThis program is a simple GUI DOS Download cluster analysis program (61KB) which unzips to Awclust.exe. If a group of objects—students, say—can be classified according to certain information then they can be compared by cluster analysis. Decide upon the criteria and how your friends score, then see who is classified as similar to who else by cluster analysis. Or use it seriously. It works fine for small numbers of objects and small numbers of properties. Draws a dendrogram at the end. Try it! It is interesting.
FIBA SermonizerDownload the FIBA sermoniser (21KB), an absolutely essential tool for anyone preparing sermons or speeches in a sermonic style, looking for a biblical sounding phrase or simply seeking a few stimulating ideas. From the Frederic Ignatious Baines Archive. See it.
AskWhy! Publications Lottery SelectorDownload the lottery selector, a tiny Java applet (3KB) for you to put on your own page. You never know, someone might use it, win and give you a donation. Hope springs eternal! No fancy futile analysis here. It just picks you six numbers at random in the UK Lottery range.
You don’t have to send us a donation if you win—of course… but, it would be nice! Keep the AWLottery class file (3KB) in the same folder as the html file that uses it (this one in this case), for it to work.
AskWhy! Publications Convert AllDownload the AskWhy! Publications multiple converter, a small Java applet (6KB) for you to convert various troublesome units, or add it to you page to help visitors.
Keep the class file (6KB) in the same folder as the html file that uses it (this one in this case), for it to work.
AskWhy! Publications RGB Color SelectorDownload the AskWhy! Publications RGB Color Selector. A common example of simple Java programming, but useful for all that.
Keep the AWColorSelector class file (4KB) in the same folder as the html file that uses it (this one in this case), for it to work.
Free Windows Software Programs
Here are some Windows programs to downoad. The were written in Delphi 1 and, having been recompiled, seem still to be running OK on a more modern computer running Windows ME. Some of them need VBX and VBX DLLs as controls, and these are included in case you do not have them. None of them make any changes to your system. Just unzip them and they should run by clicking the .EXE file from where they are. These files work on my computers! If the system complains a DLL is missing, it might be in one of the other packages. If a VBX will not load, a VBX control DLL might be missing or might need updating. Check out MS or Borland. If you have done all this and still get a complaint from your operating system, give me an e-mail with the complaint.
- Acid-Base Titration Software Simulation
- Gas Law Software Simulation
- Planetary or Solar System Software Simulation
- Snail Race Gambling Software Simulation
- UK Lottery Picker
- Snap Card Game Software Simulation
- Moon Lander Software Simulation
- Twixt Card Game Software Simulation
- African Game Mancala (Awari) Software Simulation
Download Awtitre.zip (199KB)—unzips to a simulation of an acid-base titration using your choice of three indicators or a pH meter. Onscreen words are truncated in 95, but the help file should make the procedure clear, if you do not know about titrations. Don’t forget to subtract your initial reading from your final one.
Gas Law Software SimulationDownload Awgaslaw.zip (154KB)—unzips to another simulation, this time of the gas laws. You fill a manometer with the gas then record its volume pressure relationship. Deviations can also be studied. Again there is some word truncation but the help file should be clear enough.
Planetary or Solar System Software SimulationDownload Awmoons.zip (95KB)—unzips to a simulation of a planetary or solar system. Shows the tracks of the moons, and their behaviour under mutual gravitation.
Snail Race Gambling Software SimulationDownload Awsnailr.zip (110KB) unzips to Snailrce.exe, a simple kids gambling game which demonstrates that the bookie usually wins.
UK Lottery PickerDownload Awlottry.zip (99KB) unzips to Awlottry.exe which simply picks your six lottery numbers for you.
Snap Card Game Software SimulationDownload Awsnap.zip (204KB) unzips to a version of the children’s card game Snap, measuring the child’s reaction time.
Moon Lander Software SimulationDownload AWLander.zip (205KB) unzips to a version of the old tribulation Moon Lander. You have to adjust the thrust rate while the rocket decelerates to the surface of the moon. Be prepared to lose a lot of crews before you succeed.
Twixt Card Game Software SimulationDownload Awtwixt.zip (206KB) unzips to another gambling game with cards. The player has to bet the next card turned will be ’twixt the two cards displayed in value. Although you can choose not to bet, it is hard to beat the bank.
African Game Mancala (Awari) Software SimulationDownload Awmancal.zip (106KB) unzips to a version of the African game Mancala (Awari), offering a choice of stones to be distributed.
Free Miscellaneous Software Programs
Are you interested in Conway’s Life and similar automatons? Here are a few that you can download, unzip and run on your own system. They are accompanied by a COM file (Askwhy.com (18KB)). It is a booklet explaining the Life simulations. Click on it for it to open. Askwhy.com has to be in the same directory as the simulations for them to run! They are DOS programs and will open their own DOS window when you click them. If you get a message saying a program will not run in a window, just run it full screen by pressing [alt-enter]. Mainly, they show a set of options, run, show a message, pause then end and you simply click them again to run them again.
Stephen Wolfram, the mathematical genius, in A New Kind of Science? thinks the universe is essentially a cellular automaton. Cellular automatons are programs that feed back on themselves for each equential update according to some simple rules, and thus generate a changing picture. The best known version of a CA was the Game of Life, invented by J H Conway in the sixties. Here are some small programs of Life simulations that run in full screen for you to see what Wolfram is talking about, They are written in C++ and updates the screen in audible tics thus allowing you to see the changes more easily than in FizzLife (below). Keep the Askwhy!.com program in the same folder for them to work.
- One dimensional Life
- MultiLife
- Life Game
- Life with Color
- Virtual Ants
- Solar System
- Foxes and Rabbits
- The Politically Incorrect Game
- Fizz Life—Tiny Pogram
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Download One dimensional Life (36KB) unzips to Aw1dlife.exe which with a click or double click depicts the motion of the automatons in one dimension (along a line) according to the 256 differents rules which can be set for the creatures. Wolfram was amazed by rule 30 and considers rule 110 to be a universal computer. The successive generations are depicted down the screen for the first few generations. Just tap <space> to move to the next rule in the sequence and automatically run the automaton each time. “Esc” stops them.
MultiLife
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Download MultiLife (36KB) unzips to Awmulife.exe which gives a choice of Conway’s rules and some others and options to run them alternately plus a dual life option in which there are yellow and blue creatures living in the same space, and the choice of a random universe or your own pattern.
Life GameDownload Life Game (43KB)unzips to Awlifegm.exe which is a difficult game based on the life rules. Each player places one to four discs (agreed in advance) on the board, and the game is run according to the life rules. You have to compete in the evolutionary game of life better than your opponent.
Life with ColorDownload Life with color (36KB) unzips to Awlifewc.exe which runs a choice of Life simulations with cells colour coded according to age. You can arrange for cells of different ages to die making the simulation end sooner, but by changing the rules to easier ones before all the cells die you can revive them. Patterns produced can be pretty, especially with the simple rules.
A very fast simulation of Conway’s life is Fizz Life which unzips to Fastlife.com. You should run in a full DOS window to see it working properly. In a small window, the computer runs faster than the screen updates, so all the generations are not depicted. Fullscreen they all show but so fast the two dimensional creatures seem alive! This program is machine code which is why it is so fast and tiny (4KB).
Virtual AntsDownload Virtual Ants (36KB) unzips to Awvants.exe which allows you to set up a colony of virtual ants of varying numbers. The interesting thing about virtual ants is that, though they begin in a random space, they get caught in repetitive behaviour—a bit like human beings really!
Solar SystemDownload Solar System (46KB) unzips to Solarsys.exe which runs a simulation of a solar or planetary system. Different numbers of planets (or moons), scales, tilts and so on can be arranged. The individual moons do not have their own angular momentum and so what would be collisions (where the orbital angular momentum is transferred to the rotational angular momentum of the combined moon) actually illustrate a slingshot effect, hurling the errant moon out of orbit.
Foxes and RabbitsFinally, here are some more tiny machine code programs. Download Foxes and Rabbits (7KB) unzips to Foxanrab.com which simply draws a graph of the populations of foxes and rabbits in a natural situation. You can change the parameters to see different phenomena in this predator-prey simulation.
The Politically Incorrect GameDownload The Politically Incorrect Game (6KB) is a silly little game played by undergraduates on hand held computers in bars. Drunken Henry has been reported for sexual harassment and has to be pointed to the door of the Dean or Vice-Chancellor across the campus. On the campus lawn are some feminists and some of his friends. He lurches to avoid the feminists and lurches towards his friends.
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