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This applet uses the free Flash player plug-in resident in most browsers to allow the user to plot a parametrically defined curve on a customized scale and dynamically rotate the three-dimensional picture.

Interactive Gallery of Quadric Surfaces

A suite of mathlets for interactive exploration of quadric surfaces

Integrator

This mathlet computes Riemann sums for a user-defined function and draws a graph of the function as well as a graphical represenatation of the approximations.

Commentaries

opinion essays from Loci editors

Protein Analysis

A Biological ESTEEM module in the BioInformatics Category. This workbook allows the analysis of sample or imported protein sequences.

Technology in the Upper-Level Curriculum

An article discussing the use of technology in abstract analysis, real analysis, and geometry.

Thinking Outside the Box -- or Maybe Just About the Box

This article presents a fresh look at an age-old calculus optimization problem, the 'box problem.' (Also includes a Student Module condensed from the article.)

Flash Tools for Developers: Parametric Curves on the Plane

This Flash Forum article includes source code and modification instructions that will allow you to customize a grapher for polar and parametric curves in the plane.