Paul Heckbert's Collection of Interesting Web Links (original) (raw)
Here are some links that I've found interesting. I've tested most of them.
Table of contents: bibs |web |directories |people |projects |papers & software |conferences |doc |universities |newspapers |travel |publishers |misc |Pittsburgh |CMU
Bibliographies and Databases
- Computer Science Bibliography main site, Germany.
- arXiv of physics, math, CS papers
- New Zealand Digital Library's Computer Science technical reports index, index to thousands of (postscript!) technical reports worldwide, but as of 12/02 they're missing most of CMU's CS tech. reports - not a good sign
- JSTOR, old journals on line (link works from participating university computers only)
- Graphbib, SIGGRAPH's Computer Graphics bibliography
- table of contents for Computer Graphics journal
- Ian Ashdown's bibliography on radiosity. He also has a bibliography on color image quantization. To locate it, try google.
- Jules Bloomenthal's bibliography on implicit surfaces
- Jim Arvo's bibliography on transport, (heat transfer, scattering theory, illumination, etc)
- Tralvex Yeap's Radiosity Abstracts/Bibliography/Papers Library
- Frank Crow's collection on graphics hardware, Thomas Monk's history of PC graphics hardware,
- graphics file formats, raster image, video, 3-D models
- Computational Geometry bibliography and other compgeom stuff
- Computer Vision bibliography
- Computational Geometry bibliography and some info about it
- Bibliography on approximation by Eric Grosse ( PS version)
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics web encyclopedia (modestly named, eh?), and his book Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
- US Patent database |US Patents
- Bounty Quest, match up people who want to shoot down patents with those who can
- Computer Graphics Links, by Steve Hollasch
- comp.graphics FAQ by John Grieggs
- Amara Graps' science links, (astronomy, numerical methods, ...)
- List of virtual libraries on the WWW
- International Children's Digital Library, books online
- Library of Congress
- University of California Library catalog, Melvyl
- Stanford University Library catalog
- CMU library
- Firstsearch bibliography (password required)
- Community of Science researcher/funding database (only works from member institutions)
- Encyclopedia Britannica, large encyclopedia on line
- Math history from the Swarthmore Internet Mathematics Library
- findarticles.com online magazine & journal articles
Web Search Programs
- Google, web search program, good at weeding out junk (ranks by popularity)
- Altavista web search program -- probably the best database. advanced search
- Vivisimo, a clustering web search program
- Manjara, a clustering web search program
- HomePageSearch, search for web pages of computer scientists
- Northern Light, web search program
- All The Web, fast search
- reverse telephone search, get name from phone number
- Searchbug, find people or business by name, phone number, address, email; search US govt. publications & newspapers; comparison shopping; airplane flight data
- calendar
- http://www.gulftel.com/\~scubadoc/refsrch.htm - DIED! reference tools, address lookup, quotations, acronyms, dictionary, calendar, area code from address, speech synthesis...
- area code list
- ixquick web search; runs yahoo, altavista, and others
- Metacrawler web search; runs Altavista, Infoseek, Lycos, and others
- Ask Jeeves, runs other web search programs, adds a glossy coating
- reference.com - do searches periodically - cool!
- New York Times Navigator, links to web search programs, reference info, other good stuff
- Links2Go, topical index, flat
- Yahoo, topical index, hierarchical. people search
- Snap, seems to be a Yahoo clone. See their Product Finder
- Infoseek Ultraseek web search program -- slower than Altavista, but also a big database
- AnyWho reverse lookup from phone number
- Lycos web search program, good phone database
- Hotbot fast web search program (formerly Inktomi), does word search (no context)
- Google Groups Search (USENET), (formerly Deja News)
- Survey Central, surveys on every topic imaginable
- Askmehelpdesk.com, you ask questions, "experts" answer them
- Switchboard (find people - database mostly from US telephone white pages)
- WhoWhere email address or phone number from name (small phone database)
- Ahoy, search for personal web pages and email addresses
- Four11 white pages (find people on the Web - database mostly from USENET)
- ditto.com, search for pictures
Worldwide Directories
- Computer Vision directory maintained by Mark Maimone, CMU
- Computer graphics & visualization WWW directory
- computer graphics links (collection from George Washington University).
Individuals
- Sharon Burks, makes CS dept run at Carnegie Mellon
- Takeo Igarashi, CMU, visiting from Japan; nice user interface ideas
- Greg Ward (Larson), author of RADIANCE renderer
- Joe Warren, Rice University, subdivision surfaces, wavelets
- Jon Webb, Diamondback Systems, Reston VA
- Adrian Bowyer, U. of Bath, UK, solid modeling
- Steven Boker, Dept of Psych, Notre Dame U
- Craig Reynolds, Sony
- Andrew Johnson, CMU
- Jim Arvo, Caltech
- Tom Sederberg, Brigham Young U.
- Jules Bloomenthal, Unchained Geometry, Seattle. personal web site.
- Paul Haeberli's journal Grafica Obscura, SGI
- Stephen Harrison, Reading MA, Ibelong, worked on Altavista
- Drew Olbrich see Phlegm, Ray-Traced Sphere, Thing in a Jar, Tricorder
- Ephraim Cohen's HEXATRON (java hacks)
- Peter Shirley, Utah (has list of CG labs)
- Charlie Gunn, mathematician & graphics whiz & high school math teacher
- Nina Amenta, U. of Texas, Austin, (formerly at Geometry Center, Minneapolis)
- Don Mitchell, Microsoft
- Seth Teller, MIT
- Leonard McMillan, MIT
- MIT Media Lab / Architecture Machine Group Alumni (requires password)
- SGI employees
- Susan R. Heckbert, my sister.
- Veit Elser, physicist, high school friend of mine.
- Jim Austin, blacksmith & high school friend of mine. (more pix)
- Russell Wilcox, laser engineer, video artist, & high school friend of mine. Phaeton Communications. Tetrahedron laser sculpture. from Burning Man 99, Beaming Man laser sculpture from Burning Man 00.
- Will Welch, Inktomi, SF
- [ (formerly Bridget Johnson-Heckbert), my ex-wife,](Bridget L. Johnson) ASE Edge
Projects
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Computer Graphics Research Group (Willems, Bekaert et al)
- Microsoft Research graphics group
- U of British Columbia, Imager computer graphics lab
- Stanford U, computer graphics
- U of Washington, Grail project (Curless et al)
- MIT Erotic Computation Group
- A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry, Geometry Center, Minneapolis
- Cornell U, computer graphics
- Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (some map hounds in Sioux Falls).
- ASCII graphics (a great hack!): Star Wars animation , ASCII Quake
Other Peoples' Papers and Software
- Implicit Surface info from John Hart & Jules Bloomenthal
- Gomes and Velho's book on image processing for computer graphics
- Peter Cheeseman, NASA Ames, Bayesian methods, classification and surface reconstruction
- Michal Irani, Weizmann Institute, Israel, computer vision and image processing
- Apple's Quicktime VR
- IBM's Interaction Accelerator (multiresolution stuff by Rossignac & Borrel)
- netlib, big collection of software (lots of FORTRAN)
- vtk: The Visualization Toolkit by Schroeder, Martin, and Lorensen at GE.
- David Eberly, lots of software for fitting, geometry, linear systems, etc.
- Beware of VIDEA!, an amusing and troubling account of a bogus conference, reported by Purgathofer, Groeller, and Feda of the U of Vienna.
- Computational Geometry software directory by Nina Amenta.
- David Eppstein's collections of geometry problems and applied computational geometry
- subdivision of polyhedra to generate a sphere, very cool
- Very cool images of polyhedra
- Application Challenges to Computational Geometry report, (argues that computational geometry needs to become more applied), and discussion, including some of my comments.
- Ian Ashdown's papers, books, and bibs: radiosity papers, computer graphics papers.
- CMU SCS software collection
- A collaborative, electronic textbook on scientific computing, (its top level)
- Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods, book
Conferences and Journals
- SIGGRAPH org., SIGGRAPH 02, digital campfire.
- SIGGRAPH papers online: 97 , 98 , 99 , 00 , 01 , 02 .
- SIGGRAPH proceedings from ACM Digital Library, (PDF of articles from 1991 onward, but sometimes scanned, sometimes without color figures)
- Eurographics org. , Eurographics '97 Conf. , Eurographics Workshop on Rendering , EWR99 , Eurographics Workshops , '99 Workshop on Graphics Hardware
- Visualization 2001
- ASME Design Automation Conference, Pittsburgh, Sept 01. ASME guidelines (look for DETC2001)
- IMA Workshop on Computer Graphics, May 01
- Implicit Surfaces 99, Bordeaux France Sept 99
- Workshop on Rendering, Perception, and Measurement papers, Ithaca NY, 1998
- Seminars in Dagstuhl Germany
- Visualization 98
- Mesh Generation Conferences & Journals
- list of online graphics papers and journals, collected by Fredo Durand. Others here, here, or here.
- computational geometry conferences, list by Joe Mitchell
- IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications journal (papers online)
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (papers online)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics, has links to software, other stuff Past Conferences
- Graphics Interface '97 (papers online)
- Symposium on Interactive Computer Graphics, Apr 97
- 1997 Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, St Etienne, France, June 1997,travel to Europe
Documentation on Computers
- .mailcap: .mailcap files and MIME | .mailcap for netscape on SGI
- MIME types
- Perl FAQ
- HTML: Writing HTML | NCSA doc | MS tutorial | w3C info
- Conversion between email formats , LDIF address list format
- SGI software documentation (IRIX 6.2)
- Adobe doc on Postscript document structuring conventions
- Tex reference (typesetting), Tex and PDF
- Which are better, Macs or PC's?
University Departments
- U of California, Berkeley, CS division
- U of North Carolina, CS dept
- U of Washington, CS dept , some PR
- Stanford U, CS dept
Newspapers
- New York Times
- BBC
- Yahoo most-emailed news
- Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, media watchdog
- Daypop Top 40, popular weblogger sites
- memepool, collection of web links from people all over, on all topics
- The Onion (satire)
- smirkingchimp.com and gwbush.com, political commentary
- Whitehouse.org (political satire)
- Romanesko's Obscure Store - weird stuff
- MyPittsburghLIVE
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Slashdot, news for nerds
- Digital Silence computer graphics / hardware / game news
- San Jose Mercury News, good for Silicon Valley news
- CNet News.com, computer news
- Burt Wolf, on travel, food
- Annals of Improbable Research
Travel
- Orbitz
- Travelocity
- Expedia
- Sidestep, travel search tool
- Farechase, travel search tool
Publishers and Bookstores
- Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
- SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- A. K. Peters
- Cambridge University Press
- Addison Wesley Longman
- Eurographics-Springer book series
- newtextlistings.com, get list of new textbooks given university and course number
- Shopping Agents (especially technical books, but also non-tech books, clothes, etc.)
- Yahoo's list of shopping agents
- Yahoo bookstore, use their "Search the Web", not "Search Yahoo"
- AddAll
- MX Bookfinder, used books agent
- Acses
- Top 10 Guide, but annoying phonetic search system
- My Simon, but they don't check Computer Literacy
- Roboshopper, poorly displayed (sequential)
- Fatbrain, San Jose, CA, formerly Computer Literacy
- Varsitybooks.com, on-line textbook store
- Books.com, on-line bookstore
- efollet, new & used college textbooks
- Barnes & Noble, bookstore
- Amazon.com, on-line bookstore
- Border's Books
- Border's and others use Harvest Booksearch (1-800-563-1222) for out-of-print book search
Religion
Misc
- Thesaurus & Dictionary
- Some jobs and scholarships in computer graphics
- history of computer graphics chip companies from Salon,
- Paul's private links
- Science Made Stupid, by Tom Weller, incredibly funny
- Calvin Trillin's political poems, right on!
- anti-tobacco political activists
- fandango, purchase movie tickets (USA) through web
- gasbuddy.com, comparison shop for gasoline prices, in US and Canada
- CDNOW, listen to music CD excerpts
- eComplaints.com or PlanetFeedback.com, consumer complaints about companies
- Institute for Applied Autonomy, Graffiti Writer - spray paint cans on an RC car!
- Software Bugs (death and disaster from missing comma, bad float-int conversion, etc). See also this
- Movie Review Query Engine, multiple reviews of thousands of movies, previews of current movies
- visualizations of the Internet
- model trains, my collection of links
- nice fonts
- How Microsoft stifled Intel's work on signal processing and graphics software and attempted to leash Apple's Quicktime (paragraphs 94-110). From Microsoft Trial Findings of Fact, Nov. 1999.
- annoyances.org, discussion of annoyances of Microsoft software, and workarounds
- Image Resize Bug in Microsoft Photo Editor
- JPL Mars Pathfinder pix , JPL space pictures , DEC's Mars Pathfinder mirror site
- USGS remote sensing of earth
- The Exploratorium
- Zip code lookup (type address, get zip)
- Send a fax from web or email
- Tiger Map Data of US, from Census Bureau
- Street maps of US & Canada, type an address & see a map. mapquest has aerial photos, too
- driving directions in the US fromtripquest.com or vicinity.com,
- Song lyrics, CD database, audio samples
- Acronym Collection . with lots of obscure ones
- Anagram Generator
- how to get let less junk mail, junk phone calls, junk email
- Uncommercials
- Telemarketer tormenting techniques
- Bill Nye the Science Guy: fancy graphics version, text version. Kids TV show. PBS broadcast schedule, other broadcast schedule.
- info on travel to Europe, particularly Lyon, FR
- current Seattle traffic map
- A history of computer graphics from the book "Becoming a Computer Animator" by Michael Morrison.
More history from Sun's web pages about Ivan Sutherland. - info on travel to Europe
- Willow Glen High School class of '76, San Jose, CA. ("Reunion Hall" database), geocities database.
- Willow Glen Elementary School, Willow Glen Middle School, (formerly Markham Junior High), Willow Glen High School, where I went
- English idioms
- hypertext dictionary , language translation
Pittsburgh
- current Pittsburgh weather
- WYEP radio live stream
- movies currently playing in Pittsburgh. Yahoo's index
- directory of pittsburgh businesses and attractions
- Jewish Community Center, Squirrel Hill
- Allegheny County real estate assessments,
- concert listing from pollstar.com
- TV: WQED 13 (pbs), KDKA 2 (cbs), WTAE 4 (abc), WPXI 11 (nbc) - sched, WPGH 53 (fox), transmitter info
- Swing Dancing
- bars and nightlife
- Geek Night, beer parties
- A Pinch of Pittsburgh, brief, good guide to restaurants & sights
- Kid Stuff
- C-MITES, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students
- robocamp
- Dynamo Soccer
- Children's Events
- Beginning with Books, literacy for poor kids
- Dance in Pittsburgh
- Edgewood: Mellor Library , Recreation
- Heads Together Video & DVD, videotape rental (forget Blockbuster!)
- Western Pennsylvania MENSA
- phone numbers of Pittsburgh businesses
- Pittsburgh SIGGRAPH chapter
- City of Pittsburgh info index, parks, maps, lots of other stuff
- Outdoors:
- Outside Adventures
- Western Pennsylvania Field Institute
- Pennsylvania Swimming Holes
- biking: bike rides in Pittsburgh , Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Pittsburgh, Montour Trail south of Pittsburgh, Western PA Wheelmen , Allegheny Trails Alliance (rails-to-trails), rails-to-trails in SW PA , Pgh city bicycling plan , mtn biking , The Great Ride ,
- jogging: The Great Race 30 Sep 2001, results
- skiing: Pennsylvania ski conditions, West Virginia ski conditions, Laurel Ridge State Park cross country, Pennsylvania Cross Country Skier's Association,
- [ http://www.regentsquare.com/](Regent Square), Nine Mile Run Project, Run Around The Square, Frick Park & Nine Mile Run maps , Summerset at Frick Park (a.k.a. Slag Heap Village)
- Pittsburgh practical info: maps, recycling, weather, bus schedules
- current Pittsburgh traffic conditions
- Pittsburgh restaurants
- Indian restaurants
CMU
- VASC seminar
- CMU Computer Science printers
- DSL at CMU
- CSD speaker's club (my login page)
- floor plans of CMU buildings
- College of Fine Arts events calendar
- CMU Universal Library project
- Andrew Clusters (computers for primarily for CMU undergrads)
- map of CMU campus (Doherty Hall is (1), Wean is (2)), PDF map of CMU (slow, but good detail), parking map, other maps of CMU, maps of Pittsburgh and CMU.
- Vision and Autonomous Systems Center (VASC), VASC seminars
- CMU CS faculty resources (this link probably won't work well for you if you're not CS faculty)
- Robotics Institute Survival Guide
- CMU staff directory, (requires CMU Andrew id)
- Blue Cross / Blue Shield health insurance provider directory
- "Tartan Trust" purchasing card
- Faculty Senate, faculty handbook
- CMU Intercultural Communication Center, helps international students learn English
- financial summaries , Oracle financial reports 1, Oracle financial reports 2, SCS Facilities costing reports,
- schedule of classes
- CMU registrar's grades database (only for faculty)
