{"id":1707,"date":"2010-09-07T20:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2010-09-08T06:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:16:46","slug":"some-quick-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/some-quick-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Some quick bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve updated our <a href=\"http:\/\/realtimerendering.com\/portal.html\">portal page<\/a> a bit: added Black Rock Studio&#8217;s nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.disney.co.uk\/disneyinteractivestudios\/blackrockstudio\/technology\/\">publications page<\/a>, added some film and commercial research labs&#8217; publication pages, and fixed some links. Also, with a bit of regret, I removed the links to the Google Group pages for <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.graphics.algorithms\/topics\">comp.graphics.algorithms<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.games.development.programming.algorithms\/topics\">comp.games.development.programming.algorithms<\/a> (though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/faqs\/graphics\/algorithms-faq\/\">the FAQ for c.g.algorithms<\/a> is still handy). These groups (and I assume most groups in general) have turned into spam repositories. The first group in particular has a special meaning for me, as comp.graphics.* is where I met a lot of graphics programmers back in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s and learned a bunch of techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, there are packrats on the internet; Steve Hollasch has <a href=\"http:\/\/steve.hollasch.net\/cgindex\/index.html\">a nice collection<\/a> of the best of comp.graphics and other internet graphics sources. Some web-rot there with the external links, but the comp.graphics postings are solid. A few are dated, but there&#8217;s much that is still relevant today. I noticed a page I hadn&#8217;t seen before, a <a href=\"http:\/\/steve.hollasch.net\/cgindex\/misc\/sgsatire.html\">SIGGRAPH &#8217;92 satire<\/a> &#8211; some funny bits there (e.g. <em>The Freehand Generation of Fractal Curves using only a Lightpen and Caffeine<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of a classic page that everyone should at least skim: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/~wp\/videa-paper.html\">WARNING:\u00a0Beware of VIDEA<\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s about a bogus conference, now long-gone (though the so-called institute that ran it back then still held <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessex.ac.uk\/10-conferences.html\">23 conferences this year<\/a>). Werner Purgathofer and colleagues submitted silly abstracts to this conference and all were accepted without review. Check out the abstracts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/~wp\/videa-paper.html\">his page<\/a>.\u00a0Werner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cg.tuwien.ac.at\/~wp\/videa.html\">overview page<\/a> also gives links to a number of related publications scandals: nonexistent peer review, plagiarism, automatic paper writing, etc. If nothing else, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/pdos.csail.mit.edu\/scigen\/\">SCIgen<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t seen it before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve updated our portal page a bit: added Black Rock Studio&#8217;s nice publications page, added some film and commercial research labs&#8217; publication pages, and fixed some links. Also, with a bit of regret, I removed the links to the Google Group pages for comp.graphics.algorithms and comp.games.development.programming.algorithms (though the FAQ for c.g.algorithms is still handy). 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