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How to Use this Gallery - JAVA

  • We encourage you to touch the art, so when you pass your mouse over an exhibit; it will change to color, clicking this will then bring up the piece selected:

  • The Macintosh - Java version will be available soon.

  • The images in artwave are presented as duotones with a blue wash. After you click on the artwork, the selected piece is displayed in color. The size of the image is based on a screen resolution of 640 x 480. The higher your screen resolution is set, the smaller the images will appear. This site is best viewed with your screen resolution set to 640 x 480 and your colors set to 256 colors or higher.


Virtual Tour Page Notes

  • Place your mouse over any of the yellow dots on the Virtual Tour page and a balloon will pop-up with information about that Canadian city. Once the balloon appears, click once with your mouse and a graphic will appear with specific information about the featured gallery and exhibition. To go directly to that gallery and exhibition, click on the graphic.


Technical Notes


  • The artwave - JAVA site is best configured for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.

  • Minimum requirements 486/33, 8 Mbs RAM, 14.4 modem.

  • Recommmended: 486/66 or above, 16Mbs RAM, 28.8 modem.

  • The artwave site was designed using 28.8 dial-up access.

  • If you are using Windows 95, you must let Windows manage your Virtual Memory settings. This is the Windows 95 default setting, so if you have not changed these settings, the JAVA applets will work properly.

  • Make sure there is no checkmark beside "Enable Java JIT Compiler" or "Enable Java Logging". These options can be found on the menu bar by selecting, View, then Options, then Advanced.

Download Times

  • Rogers Communications Inc. has designed the artwave site to run optimally on a DNS based, round robin, server architecture. This load balanced infrastructure is physically composed of two load balanced Sun Ultra 1 hardware servers each running Sun's Solaris 2.5.1 Operating System. The backbone connection of the infrastructure to the Internet is composed of two T1 connections to UUNET and I-Star. The content itself sits on the multi-threaded Open Market Secure Web Server (V. 2.0).

  • Using the recommended settings, the first applet you download should take no longer than 30-40 seconds. All future applets will initialize and display within 10-20 seconds. If the applets take longer, either the site or your ISP is busy.

  • NOTE: if you are using Netscape 3.0 or below the applets will take longer to initialize.



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