I've started working on the Bioclipse project, as part of a post-doc at the EBI in the Steinbeck group. This will be a place to put some notes on what I'm doing there.
I wanted to show something that hints at the things that the new architecture can afford us: This is using a Java2D graphics Paint object to make it look like chalk...kindof. It's a very simplistic way of doing it by making a small image with a random number of white, gray, lightgray, and black pixels. edit: it doesn't look so good at small scales some tweaking of stroke widths and so on is essential.