SciFace Software GmbH & Co. KG
SciFace (http://www.sciface.com) is providing space on their web server as well as a lot of support in establishing and running mathPAD Online.
MacKichan Inc.
We use frequently Scientific Notebook and Scientific Workplace from MacKichan Inc. (http://www.mackichan.com) to produce mathematical documents and convert them to HTML. This is the most convenient and the most reliable way of doing such jobs.
JavaView
JavaView is used for displaying majority of 3D graphs on mathPAD Online pages. JavaView is a technology developed by Konrad Polthier with contributions of Klaus Hildebrandt, Eike Preuß, Ulrich Reitebuch, and others, see the list of contributors in the About menu of JavaView. Program xvc2jvx converting MuPAD graphics into JavaView virtual model was developed by Klaus Drescher. More information about JavaView can be found at http://www.javaview.de.
Macromedia Inc.
The 2D graphics in MuPAD is vector graphics. Graphics on the web is usually in bitmap format - GIF, JPG or PNG format. While converting MuPAD 2D graphics to bitmaps we often lose the quality and in many cases files are getting very large. However, instead of converting vector graphics to bitmaps we can publish them in Flash format. This way we get excellent clear pictures with sharp lines and clean colors. Such picture has a few additional features - can be magnified (right click) and can be animated. Finally it is worth to mention that in 90% Flash files are much smaller than bitmap files. Therefore most of MuPAD plots on this web site will be published in Flash format.
It is necessary to mention that in order to see Flash pictures embedded into a web page we need Flash player that can be downloaded from Macromedia Inc. web site at http://www.macromedia.com.
