Paul Heckbert's Collection of Interesting Web Links

Here are some links that I've found interesting. I've tested most of them.

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, 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

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 from tripquest.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/, 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)

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