Version 4.2's Gold Medal winner is none other than our very own John Magdziarz, or the appellation the janitor employs: herr magster a.k.a. herr doktor. John's contributions to the D.T. have been a "food staple" for quite some time. He's forged such sterling works as ivcalc, lackey, vidmap, scrollmon, and seqgrab, as well as crafting (and voicing) the v4.1 developer toolbox "greeting" sound file one can run when demobook fires up.

herr magster's proclivity for creating applications that fill in some of the gaps in sgi's software functionality is a tremendous boon to everyone grappling with attempts to tame the sgi beast. cmapdoctor, a scanner/viewer for all X colormaps/visuals including overlays, underlays and popups, is definitely such an application. to be a little more concrete here about the Gold Medal, some of the janitor's general guidelines for such an award are:

• a tool, utility, src example, application, or data set especially useful to "fill a hole" left unaddressed by sgi's engineering community.

• something exceptionally beautiful/meaningful that serves as a stellar example of what is possible to do/create on/with an sgi machine.

Having applications such as John's on the d.t., help distinguish it as a pre-eminent resource, useful to people both in- and out-side SGI. It is with great pleasure that we bestow the Gold Medal award for version 4.2 of the d.t., to herr cmap-doktor, gifted in the art of creativity, inventiveness, and boldly going where few others care to trod. 'nother good one, herr magster!

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public/bin/linkwinds                          JPL
src/apps/gmemusage                            Roger Chickering
src/apps/gvi                                  Baron Roberts
src/exampleCode/inventor/DirectManipRevoSurf  Paul Isaacs
src/exampleCode/inventor/SpaceballViewer      Jym "powder daze" Terhorst
src/exampleCode/opengl/oat                    George Kyriazis
src/exampleCode/video/simpleVideo             Don Bennett
src/exampleCode/viewkit/builderExamples       Doug Young
src/exampleCode/X/xshowcmap2                  Joel Tesler
src/swtools/libdmalloc                        Don Hatch 

• linkwinds: a visual data analysis and exploration system designed to rapidly and interactively investigate large multivariate and multidisciplinary data sets to detect trends, correlations and anomalies. It accepts HDF, CDF, netCDF, FITS, PDS, SGI RGB, and binary byte and floating point data.

• gmemusage: a graphical memory usage display tool to help programmers analyze how their programs and the system as a whole is using memory.

• gvi: graphical vi command: viewkit-implementation providing a graphical user interface to the vi(1) text editor.

• DirectManipRevoSurf: a demo using its own DSO, RevoSurfEngine.so implementing draggers for direct manipulation of a surface of revolution.

• SpaceballViewer: modified src from inventor_dev.src.sample handles the Spaceball input device.

• oat: OpenGL Attribute Tester tests the functionality of OpenGL on different platforms, with a GUI to test most of the different changeable attributes.

• simpleVideo: library + examples providing the video programmer with a simple programmatic interface on top of the video library (VL).

• builderExamples: beginnings of an examples tree with programs written using BuilderXcessory.

• xshowcmap2: an extension to xshowcmap and useful in debugging problems dealing with multiple colormaps and/or visuals, modified with three new optional arguments.

• libdmalloc: a debugging malloc library finds memory corruption quickly since it has little overhead and doesn't require programs to be compiled in any special way. It uses DSOs to plug in a different malloc library.