Navrátil's Useful Links

The links below are a running tally of links that I like to have readily available. I hope you find them useful, too!

• Graphics
  • Conferences
  • Research
  • File Formats
  • Online Datasets
• Programming Language Resources
• Documentation and FAQs
• LaTeX
• News and Information
• Internet Radio
• Other Useful Stuff

• John Dingliana's Graphics Submission Deadlines Calendar. Thanks to John for maintaining this!
• Branislav Ulicny's Graphics Conference Acceptance Rates. Thanks to Branislav for maintaining this!
• Also useful: the SIGGRAPH calendar of graphics-related events

• ACM SIGGRAPH, the premiere conference for computer graphics
• Graphics Hardware, a joint SIGGRAPH/EuroGraphics conference focused on design and algorithms for rendering hardware

• ACM Digital Library (subscription required)
• CiteSeer Research Index
• Google Scholar
• arXiv.org recent graphics postings
• UTexas Library online journal index, great for finding online versions of many journals outside the ACM family (like IEEE journals)
• graphbib, a bibliography reference citation site for ACM graphics journals

• Graphics File Formats, including many popular formats and utilities (low bandwidth site)

• SIGGRAPH Volume Visualization Data Sets
• Material and Geometry Format (MGF) Parser and Examples
• Eric Haines's Standard Procedural Database (SPD), and the corresponding Neutral File Format (NFF)

• C++
  • C++ FAQ LITE, an excellent resource for C++ syntax, style and decorum.
  • Fred Swartz's C++ notes, nice supplemental notes and examples on C++
  • sgi's STL documentation
• Perl
  • Perl.org FAQ
  • Perl.org Perl (5.8.8) Documentation

• GCC Online documentation
• GNU make manual
• Valgrind, a free profiling/debugging tool for C and C++. Useful for finding memory leaks and for abstract cache profiling, among other things.

• GnuPlot, a free MatLab/Mathematica style data and function plotting utility

• LaTeX 2e cheat sheet by Winston Chang.
• The Not So Short Intro to LaTeX 2e, or LaTeX 2e in 87 minutes, by Tobias Oetiker, et al. (gzip-d postscript)
• Page Layout in LaTeX, by Piet van Oostrum. A guide to layout packages, like fancyhdr. (gzip-d postscript)
• landscape mode for LaTeX, from the LaTeX support group at University of Colorado.

• The New York Times, the newspaper of record for the US
• The Daily Texan, the newspaper of record for UT
• Google News, headline news for the Web
• Slashdot, News for nerds, stuff that matters
• Wikipedia, a free Wiki-based encyclopedia
• online Dictionary

• KUT 90.5 FM, Austin's "NPR" station, an excellent eclectic mix, heavy on folk, blues, bluegrass and jazz. One of the best public radio stations in the nation.
• RadioFG, DJ Radio live from Paris!
• XTC Radio London, DJ Radio live from London!

• Tiny URL, a url redirection service that condenses any url into a few-character string. A must for sending long pageserver links to friends and colleagues!
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures