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FERN/Mercury Documentation
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Here are the development and implementation documents for FERN, Mercury, and Imager. The Theses section contains additional research-oriented material; the Description section provides overview documentation of VEOS; and the Kernel section provides documentation of the VEOS kernel functional components.

FERN was developed by Geoff Coco and Colin Bricken. Guidelines for working with the VEOS entity interface prior to FERN, the non-programmers usage manual for FERN, and the programmers' user manuals follow.
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veos

what is veos?
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theses
kernel
∆ entities/body

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HOW TO MAKE A VEOS ENTITY (Geoff Coco)
THE FERN MODEL: AN EXPLANATION WITH EXAMPLES (Max Minkoff)
THE APPLICATION PROGRAMMER'S INTERFACE TO THE FERN SYSTEM
(Geoff Coco and Colin Bricken)

Mercury was developed by Andy MacDonald and Max Minkoff. The documentation:

THE FERN II/MERCURY VIRTUAL BODY (Max Minkoff)
THE MOVEMENT PYRAMID (Andy MacDonald and Max Minkoff)
MERCURY LISP INTERFACE (Andy MacDonald)
MERCURY 1.5 PROTOCOL (Andy MacDonald)
EXPLANATION OF MERCURY, THE VEOS HUMAN INTERFACE (Andy MacDonald)

Imager was developed by Marc Cygnus, for high performance graphics display:

DESCRIPTION OF GRAPHIC (DOG) FORMAT (Marc Cygnus)
IMAGER XLISP INTERFACE (Marc Cygnus)