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Feb 2006: Now available - OneStone® Math for the PC! OneStone Math is a powerful, easy to use calculus program designed for students and educators. It provides solutions and gives insight to problems in single and multivariable calculus. These include derivatives and integrals of functions, as well as vectors in two and three dimensions.

OneStone Math uses an innovative system of linked 2 and 3D graphs, presented simultaneously, to provide users with a depth of understanding unattainable with any other visualization tool. This capability, combined with a powerful symbolic math engine, places OneStone Math in a class by itself among educational calculus programs. With a retail price of only $50 USD, it is a value the competition simply can't match. Click here to see a set of screenshots, or here for more information.

FREE! 3DSurface Viewer, a compact software component embedded in a page of our web site. Providing a simple, intuitive interface, 3DSurface Viewer is a powerful tool that draws high-quality 3D graphs of surfaces defined by mathematical expressions. 3DSurface Viewer:

• Is Easy to Use
• Draws solid, illuminated surfaces
• Allows surfaces to be viewed from any angle
• Less than 400kB in size - downloads in seconds
• Can be saved and used off-line
• Requires no script language - no programming!

3DSurface Viewer can be found in the Math Tools section of our site.

Jan 2006: The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has published the 3DSurface Viewer on their Digital Classroom Resources Site! The Viewer joins a small number of free math tools which have been 'classroom tested and peer reviewed' by MAA members. BIS is proud of this recognition, and would like to thank the MAA.

Developers: Need a 3D graph? With a design-mode license (also free), the ActiveX™ component used in the 3DSurface Viewer web application can be programmed and used in your own applications. Other items of potential interest to programmers interested in OpenGL on the Win32 platform are also available.