Jim Snow - links

A few things that are more interesting than my web page
Daily time wasters	Webcomics Megatokyo PhD Real Life Xkcd Sequential Art Bug Slashdot
Ray Tracing and Graphics	POV-Ray beware - I have squandered years of my life tinkering with this program Internet Ray Tracing Competition Heaven 7 real time ray tracing demo (windows only, ugh) Henrik Wann Jensen's page (photon mapping animations) ANU's relativistic ray tracer Ray Tracing News edited by Eric Haines comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ Physically based rendering book and ray tracer Siggraph presentation(ppt) by Gordon Stoll on optimizing a ray tracer (covers kd-tree construction and traversal, packet tracing) OpenRT OpenGL-like api for (quasi)real-time ray tracing OpenGL Reference (blue book) OpenGL Programming Guide (red book) Ompf2 ray tracing forum (good info on accelleration structures)
Packet Radio	The Personal Telco Project, a Portland OR wireless user group MIT Roofnet, a working ad-hoc net work that uses a custom dsdv routing protocol with a reliability-based metric implemented with click (this is part of the MIT grid ad-hoc networking project) CMU Monarch project, home of Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) MACSS project at the UCLA Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS), home of much energy-constrained packet radio research HostAP (use your linux box as an access point) NS, the network simulator Green Bay Professional Packet Radio has a wealth of amateur packet radio information Wikipedia's exhaustive ad-hoc protocol list Wikipedia's ad-hoc protocol implementation list Satellite telemetry and other interesting info can be found at heavens above (info for Beaverton)
Vendors	(disclaimer: I don't necessarily endorse or have experience buying from these vendors) Commodity stuff Outpost (Fry's on-line shopping site) Enu (Beaverton's local hole-in-the-wall cheap hardware store) Wireless (2.4 Ghz ISM, 802.11) Hyperlink (antennas, cables, connectors) Ydi (more of the same, with some good link calculation pages) Superpass (good, cheap panel antennas) Fiber Optics (general information about light pipe seems a little scarce on the web) Fiberdyne (bulk fiber, ethernet) Trendnet (cheap fiber-to-copper media converters) Surplus Gizoms is in Hillsboro and has a lot of stuff that is hard to find elsewhere.
Linux	Linux Weekly News and kernel section archives Linux Device Drivers, 2nd edition Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition Vim quick reference
Books	Internet Booklist my ibl page Project Gutenberg Looking for something to read? George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin Lilith Phantastes Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The King James Bible (in html)
Reference	Wikipedia (my account) Citeseer All you ever wanted to know about c function pointers but were afraid to ask can be found at function-pointer.org Internet annoyance logging protocol Developing Applications With Ocaml
Blogs and Essays	Paul Graham (assorted essays on programming and culture) Schneier on Security (cryptogram as a blog) The Edge World Question Center
Misclaneous	Tired of a two-party system? Try approval voting. Here is an article comparing various alternative voting methodologies The Jargon File Interactive Fiction Contest Core Wars You're not a true nerd if you can't read the feanorean tengwar My slashdot account Ken Thompson discusses compiler trojans Unskilled and Unaware of it Driver Education and Europe vs Italy (flash, sound) Some Fractals Advice for writing a systems paper Sekai no Hajimari, a fan site for Haibane Renmei (an excellent anime series)

A few things that are more interesting than my web page