Monday, January 15, 2001		Cyber Kids

View the sky map

Come & join in for another journey to the cyber world.

Interested in colouring? Come and let imagination run wild with animated colouring. Its child-friendly interface with large buttons and wonderful graphics offers an out-of-the-world colouring experience for all budding artists. With so many different palettes and canvases and over 1,000 different colours to choose from, you can really paint the world. Of course, you use the mouse as your paintbrush but there are other fun options. You just have to point the cursor over an area and the program fills the spot with colour. Guess what? You will also find full screen scenes of all objects in action.

Now isn’t that what you call fun with colours?

How about a star-filled sky and a personal 32-bit planetoricen just for yourself? That is what Adastra, from Swimming Elk Software is all about? Choose the vantage point from any place on the Earth, using the graphical map of the world. Moreover you can also view the stars from any time period, be it ascendants or descendants. With just a few clicks you can use numerous zoom and pan options for viewing the sky map. It offers a great animation feature that displays the heavens as time advances. Perform searches to find objects in the solar systems. Results can be displayed in the point source, spotlight or photo plate styles. You can further print out its adaptation of night sky. What’s more you will also find the complete HTML dictionary of astronomy, all here.

For all those interested in human anatomy, here comes Visible Human Radiologic Atlas. A perfect guide to the human anatomy, it will allow you to explore real gross, CT and MRI (TI and T2) images of the same cadaver. Covering 50 axial sections, with orignal1mm slice images, the demo version includes the thorax region with dozens of structures that may be viewed on demand. All the parts will be fully labeled and you can even view each modality with a click. With the windows media player you can actually view the 3D movies and thereby peel away sections of the cadaver. Get your hands working.

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