WP's Links

Hunter and gatherer

Linked to the ground

Essentially for what search engines are for. Contents meanwhile presented at other sources I need not to warm up again.
But in order not to miss the forest for the trees - no matter, just anything goes. In general a compilation with in depth info related to this site.

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Image processing and photography

Organizations, companies and info

• Filmtechnik: (Engl.: movie making techniques) about professional movie making (in German) by Stefan Neudeck

• HENNER.info: the site for photographers with info, tests ... (in German)

• Image Engineering: general technical info

• Deutsches Kameramuseum (Engl.: German Camera Museum), Plech: the collection of Kurt Tauber

Art + photo + illusion

Some own snapshots:

Photo

• Akiyoshi's illusion pages (Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan): optical illusions

• Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena (Prof. Dr. Michael Bach, Eye Clinic, University of Freiburg, Germany): optical illusions

• M. C. Escher: official gallery of the artist well-known for his illusion drawings and links

• FAU, Phil. (Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen, Germany): art of photography, history, basics, image processing, links ... (in German, but worth to visit)

• IllusionWorks: optical illusions, examples and explanations

• Turm der Sinne (Engl.: tower of the senses), hands-on museum, Nuremberg, Germany: optical and sensory perceptions

Microscope and scientific photos

High-speed imaging - how does it work?

SloMo

• Professor (retired) Andrew Davidhazy, Rochester Institute for Technology (RIT): various techniques of imaging

• Eye of Science, Reutlingen, Germany: microscope, underwater and other photos

• Face Detection: Robert, the image processing guru

• ex Nanoworld, University of Queensland: microscope photos (Gallery) with magnifications up to more than x 10 000 and descriptions of the experimental environments

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Railroad

Some steam loco photos:

Rails

• Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Nördlingen (BEM; Engl.: Bavarian Railway Museum)

• Verkehrs-/DB Museum, Nuremberg (VMN; Engl.: Transportation Museum)

• Deutsches Dampflokmuseum, Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg (DDM; Engl.: German Steam Locomotive Museum)

• IGE Erlebnisreisen, (special rail excursions), Hersbruck, Germany

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Internet

The integrated search engine:

Search

• Selfhtml.org: SELFHTML - Do it yourself home page and Internet knowledge; powerful, good and, nevertheless, for free (in German)
  Meanwhile also parallel for HTML5 from Stefan Münz directly

• Free HTML and XHTML syntax checker Tidy for the HTML and XHTML text of the home page provided by W3.org

• Free online HTML5 NU HTML Checker and Validator provided by W3.org

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Bike, Maps and more

With the own
bicycles on tour:

Bike

Bike

• Nuremberg: www.nuernberg.de - cycling

From the region

Abroad
through time and space:

WEG

• Bayern Atlas (ex Bayern Viewer): free, official map and air photo material of Bavaria (Southern Germany; in German): Geoportal.bayern.de; with very sophisticated route planner

• Nürnberer Land: Nuremberg County and Frankonian Mountains

• Fraänkische Schweiz: Frankonian Switzerland, holiday region between Nuremberg, Bamberg and Bayreuth

• Oberpfälzer Birgland: highlands in Western Upper Palatinate between Nuremberg and Bamberg

• Fränkisches Seenland: Franconian Lake County

• Sandachse: Sand Axis Franconia

• Mohrhof Weihergebiet: Naturschutzgebiet (Engl.: nature reserve) Biengarten near Höchstadt an der Aisch

• Naturschutzgebiet Wengleinpark: public nature reserve in Eschenbach near Hersbruck (east of Nuremberg), for walking only

• FAV walking paths in Middle Franconia (Nuremberg) and surroundings

Worldwide

Why France? That's why! (An homage)

Anny D

• nuernbergluftbild.de: Nuremberg, the region and other German locations in airborne photos

• Stadtplandienst: (Engl.: City Map Service) city maps of Germany with (public) facilities

• Map and data material of Germany (in German): Geoportal.de

• geoportail.fr: free official map material of France

• Open Streetmap: free world wide map material

• Bilder der Welt - wr Presse: some like it cold, Reinhardt Wurzel

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Nature and environment

The own
Animal Farm:

Farm

• Verkehrsrelikte: railroad, road, canal and other traffic relics in Germany (also in the Nuremberg region)

• TU Clausthal: mineralogy exhibition

• Thru.de (ex PRTR.bund.de), German Federal Environment Agency: official map of pollution in Germany (in German)

• Storm tide: the German coast through the centuries (in German)

• ESYS - Sailing: including vessels, history, images and info

• Maltese Falcon: Dyna-Rigg noble sailing yacht and even nobler Concept C.2157 and Black Pearl

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Techniques

Converters and
AVI players:

D-Load

• Auf Zu: general view and links to semiconductor manufacturers, distributors and translation services and dictionaries/encyclopaedias as well (in German)

• Batteryuniversity.com: battery know-how

• HwB - Hardwarebook (founded by Joakim Oegren): »greatest« free list in the Internet about pin out of connectors and cables in the PC, video and audio field

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Special interest - anything else

Do-it-yourself humor:

-Key

• Darwin Awards Official Home Page; (out-dated German version): black humor

• Moviephysics: movie and physical reality

• Ucke HP: physic toys (link collection)