UI Image And Graphics Programming Resources

Visualizing and Interactive Tech Resources

• https://developer.leapmotion.com/ - LEAP motion developer information
• https://developer.oculusvr.com/ - Oculus developer center
• http://brianpeiris.github.io/RiftSketch - An HTML5 live-coding environment for the Oculus Rift
• https://www.processing.org/ - Processing visualization programming language
• https://github.com/doug/depthjs - Library to let any web page on Chrome interact with Kinect via JavaScript
• http://developkinect.com/ - Kinect dev community
• http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page - OpenKinect
• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/default.aspx - Official Microsoft dev for Kinect
• Flickr

Drawing and Visualizing Libraries

• D3 - JavaScript data visualization library
• starchartjs — Not an API as such. JavaScript library for drawing starcharts in . Includes bright star catalog, constellation figures and ephemerides for the planets.
• starchartjs (SVG) — JavaScript library for drawing star charts with Raphaël. Possibly better cross-browser compatibility than the version, but slower. Includes bright star catalog and constellation figures.

Astrometry and Images

• SkyMorph/NEAT - Repository of Near Earth Asteroid Tracking CCD images
• http://trac.astrometry.net/browser/trunk/src/astrometry/util - USNO-B all-sky survey images, NGC/IC galaxy catalogs, constellations, and bright named stars -- in http://astrometry.net/downloads code package: util/ngc2000.py , util/brightstars.c, util/constellations.c, util/usnob_get_images.py
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) SkyServer — access spectra and images from the survey.

Image APIs

• WorldWide Telescope Script Reference — Javascript API for embedding Microsoft WorldWide Telescope in web pages. Allows you to program tours of the sky, embed external images, view other planets.
• flickr.photos.astro — YQL open table returning feeds of coordinates and names for tagged astronomy photos.
• Searching astro:name with YQL (Has some JavaScript for placing Flickr photos in the sky)
• Generating astrotags from astrometry.net photo comments
• Hubble Legacy Archive (optical) - search utility to find archival Hubble image. Has nice display feature and access to FITS format (raw image data)

Maps

• NASA Extensions for Google Maps - mostly maps of the Moon and Mars
• Google Moon and Google Mars
• OnEarth from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Open Street Maps Data
• NASA JPL Planetary photojournal

3D modeling

• NASA 3D Resources - inventory of models for 3D printing (asteroids, space probes, rockets, etc)