Current activity:
See weblog Previously about water samples taken in the Netherlands (and some related lab-experiments), but now about Energy.
Historical Scientassist subjects (some free downloads available)
The history of Scientassist starts somewhere before 1990, when it was founded as a company. Back then the description was "Bureau for Scientific Assistance". Some work had been done on statistical analysis in medicine, investigations were made concerning radiation from Chernobyl and a free software package for statistics and stochastic simulation was published. None of these are availbale by now (although "Crown" may be back as an online game in the future). Something else however, is still around but it's in Dutch: "Histologische Techniek Thuis" (pdf). It's not only available for download as a pdf, but also as an .odt (LibreOffice) and as a .doc (old MS Word) allowing others to create updated versions (or probably even a translation) under a Creative Commons Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International).
A funny fact was the "suggestion for a fourth law of Thermodynamics" - actually a conjecture - stating that when two systems with different energy-levels are connected to each other, the entropy will go down in the system with the lower energy level. This is a generalisation of investigations done by Prigogine and Onsager and the ultimate concequence is life on eath as we know it - as a result of the permanent input of solar energy.
The first real Scientassist product however, was a software package (Anakart) providing visualisation of values (automatically put into categories, represented by a colour) in a map.
It went on with MS-DOS calculation functions, a meditation assistant called "Zenzicht" (Dutch, meaning ZenView) and even a board game "Crown". None of those are around nowadays, although Crown may be back as an online game in the future.
Then a huge project was taken up called "Virtual Reality Business Intelligence" (VRBI). The main product was a 3D-scatterplot generator.
animated gifs were created with the help of ezgif.com/video-to-gif
The weblog (mainly in Dutch) still exists, but because of a provider-switch, the actual 3D-graphs cannot be accessed anymore. Links offering downloads were also killed. Fortunately the free VRBI-package itself is still available for download (a zip containing a java .jar-file). No registration required, but the product has to be accepted "as is" and no responsibility applies whatsoever.
During this period Scientassist as a company was handed over to one of my sons, but some time later logo, domain and product were returned. Although not a company anymore, the developments went on. The next step was an even more advanced package called "Annual Reports in 3D" (AnRep3D). The related weblog is also still around, but suffered from the same impact when switching providers, killing al the links including the ones pointing to the 3D-graphs. The free AnRep3D-package is still avalable for download as well (also a zip holding a java .jar) . Then there's still the Whitepaper with its set of 3D-graphs (separate set, because a pdf cannot present those 3D-graphs). No registration required, but the product has to be accepted "as is" and no responsibility applies whatsoever.
Contact anrep3d@gmail.com
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