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Image processing and photography

• BioID, Nuremberg, Germany: optical and acoustic access control (personal ID; former Human Scan, Erlangen)

• EMVA Standard 1288: open approach to qualify digital cameras

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

• Framos, Munich: market overview and technical info for machine vision

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

• Image Engineering: why 6 megapixel are sufficient enough and even better than more pixel for compact cameras

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

• Stereoscopic Technologies, Gilching, Germany: 3-D camera moves

Art + photo + illusion

• 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

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

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

• Filmschule (movie-college.com), Munich: film tricks (in German)

• IllusionWorks (if just not available, try the mirror): optical illusions, examples and explanations

• Moviephysics: Movie and physical reality

• RIT Photo Forum, Rochester Institute for Technology; Andrew Davidhazy: photo gallery with varying exhibits and discussion forum

Microscope and scientific photos

• 3D-shape, Erlangen, Germany: high resolution 3D scans of various objects by optical 3D sensors and coherence radar

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

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

High-speed imaging

Bursting waterfilled balloon

World wide links, background info, tips and tricks, high-speed imaging samples of this site

More about crash: crash-network.com

Image on the left: High-speed camera shot out of [SloMo Clips]. Recording speed 1 000 frames/sec, original size 512 x 512 pixel.

Humor

In the web

Black humor

• Darwin Awards Official Home Page; (deutsche Version)

Funny to striking and odd - the every day horror

• Monty Python's Completely Useless Web Site

• Engineers and how one recognizes them (shocking, sounds rather familiar to me; partly in German, but whow!)

Cynical, nasty to cruel and macabre (partly tasteless)

• JoeCartoon

• Rotten (the name is program)

Internet

Introduction to home page design

• W3C (W3 Consortium): defining the HTML, XHTML and CSS standards

• Phase V, powerful, free text based HTML editor (in German)

• Selfhtml.org: SELFHTML - Do it yourself home page and Internet knowledge; powerful, good and, nevertheless, for free (but in German, French and Spanish only)
  Meanwhile updated for HTML 5.0 from Stefan Münz directly

Webtools

• Antivirus software AntiVir, Germany

• dnsstuff.com, ask for a domain, domain owner, visit statistics, ...

• GOWEB / Inline: extensive hit and link counter, referrer, host, time on page logging, ... free of charge (but in German only)

• Tidy, w3: free syntax checker for the HTML text of the home page

• Wayback Machine, archive.org: searching for ancient or deceased web sites and contents

• Zone Labs, USA: Free private firewall (ZoneAlarm) and other tools for sale

Search engines

• FEN search engine: Search in the Citizens' Net Fürth-Erlangen-Nuremberg.
  (Meta-) search engines, also apart from the mainstream - here a small list in German is to be found

PC and techniques

• 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

• Lead free: RoHS and WEEE compliant appliances, short information for endusers

• c't: computer magazine (Heise Verlag): great download offer (in German)

• Ergonomics norms: error classes for flat panel displays (ISO 13406-2 superseded by DIN EN ISO 9241-303), ... (in German)

• 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 (effective ca. turn of the millennium)

• IP Schutzklassen (Internal Protection): definition, similarity and relation to NEMA norms (safety of appliances) (in German)

• NASA FEMCI Book, finite element analysis how-to, background, ...

• techfacts.net, IT forum and basic info (in German)

Model-making

• Miniature Wonderland, Hamburg: model railway at its best

• Miniatur-Erlebniswelt, Dietenhofen (near Nuremberg): very large N model railway and model making lessons in German)

• Modellbahn-Portal.de: German model railway portal (mainly in German)

• RAL colors: (some kind of German government standard; therefore partly in German)
  Presentation of the classic RAL colors Kern Gmbh, Großmaischeid, Germany

• Revell: Revell home page, Germany; Revell international: Revell home page, USA

Nature

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

• TU Clausthal: mineralogy exhibition

• National Geographic: photos and global info material

• PRTR.bund.de: official map of pollution in Germany

• Schwegler: nature conservation products

Maps and more

(It needn't be Google Earth all the time ;-)

From the region

Nuremberg, Germany

Here some tips for trips round Nuremberg:

Bike

• Bayern Viewer: free, official map and air photo material of Bavaria (Southern Germany; in German): Geodaten.bayern.de

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

• Nuremberg: www.nuernberg.de - cycling

• Bicycle race »Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt« (Engl.: Around the Nuremberg Old Town)

• MTB downhill with Lift in Osternohe near Nuremberg: www.bikepark-osternohe.de

• nuernbergluftbild.de: Nuremberg and the region in airborne photos

• www.frankenalb.de: Nürnberger Land - Nuremberg County

• www.fraenkische-schweiz.com: Franconian Switzerland

• www.birgland.de: Highlands in Western Upper Palatinate

• www.fraenkischeseen.de: Franconian Lake County

• www.sandachse.de: Sand Axis Franconia

• www.birdinggermany.de/Mohrhofweihergebiet.htm: Naturschutzgebiet (Engl.: nature reserve) Biengarten near Höchstadt an der Aisch

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

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

• www.naturschutzzentrum-wengleinpark.de: Naturschutzgebiet (Engl.: nature reserve) Wengleinpark (for walking only) in Eschenbach near Hersbruck (east of Nuremberg)

Worldwide

• Erdsicht: (Engl.: earth view) world wide airborne photos

• geoportail.fr: free map material of France

• Digtital Globe: satellite and air photo samples of the whole world (ex Globe Explorer)

• ex Mappoint + Mapblast, now Bing: navigation aid world-wide

• Stadtplandienst: (Engl.: City Map Service) city maps of Germany on really map quality level

The sea

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

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

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

Private sites

• CCInfo: Christoph Caspari explains ... [in German] (guided by the same motivation like me)

• Face Detection: Robert, the image processing guru

• Haui: all the time hanging in the rope - may the force be with him

• Jens: JVP GmbH, Flying Doctor Service for computers and their users

• Mangokun: cats

• Ucke HP: physic toys (link collection)

TV program

• Euro TV: current programs of various national (German) and international European television stations; database, ...

• FilmDB.de: Filmdatenbank, TV and movie database (in German)

• IMDb: Internet Movie Database of (TV-) movies, artists, ...

• OFDb: Online-Filmdatenbank, TV and movie database (in German)

• Prisma: German and European television stations; current program schedules and preview; movie database, ... (in German)

• TV-Foren: TV discussion forum, current channels and oldies, ... (in German)

• TVinfo: comprehensive TV channel overview for Germany, ... (in German)

• tvtv: current TV channel overview of various national (German) and European TV stations; database, ...

Translation for free

• Overview/link collection: Zentral and Landesbibliothek Berlin

• Babelfish: text and site translations

• Bab.la: various language pairs and context translations

• dict.cc: English/German dictionary with audio feature by Paul Hemetsberger and users

• Free translators: list of text and site translators

• LEO: English/German dictionary and others

• Phrasen: English and German phrases, expressions and idioms in translation

• Reverso: various language pairs

• Unidict: German/English with technical terms section and examples of phrasing