I've moved!

I've started a new position at the University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston as an assistant professor in the School of Health Information Sciences. Please visit my new webpage:

http://biomathematics.shis.uth.tmc.edu

Thank you! -- Paul (September 7, 2007)

Personal: Links

Here are some fun and useful links. (Note: Neither the University of California nor I can be responsible for any of the content that is linked from external sites.)

UCI Mathematics Links

UCI Mathematics Graduate Student Colloquium: Started in the fall quarter of 2006, the MGSC is dedicated to building the UCI mathematics graduate student community and sharing research.

Computer Graphics Programming Links:

EasyBMP Cross-Platform C++ Library: In January 2005, I released my first open-source project: the EasyBMP Cross-Platform C++ Bitmap Library. It allows even the novice programmer to read, write, and modify Windows bitmaps on a variety of platforms. It is a good way to get image data in and out of a programs without a lot of fuss. Scientists writing their own scientific visualization apps may want to take a look! :-)
UMN CSCI 5107 Course Homesite: This is the website of Dr. Baoquan Chen, instructor of the graphics course I took at the University of Minnesota.
OpenGL and GLUT Installation Tutorial: This is the first page I found that gave decent instructions on downloading, installing, and compiling with OpenGL and glut in mingw32 and MinGW. (Notice that his instructions are for MinGW, the successor to mingw32, but you can use the same process on mingw32.) He also provides some information on installing MinGW on Windows.
opengl95.exe: Download the OpenGL1.1 files from Microsoft necessary in the process described above.
OpenGL.org: This is the official site of the industry OpenGL consortium.
Advanced Programming Techniques Using OpenGL: An extensive course of advanced graphics proramming techniques Tom McReynolds and David Blythe posted at SGI. It uses OpenGL to make the concepts more concrete.
Gameprogrammer.com: Contains a few odd articles about graphic programming. In particular, dig through the "old articles" section.
UC-Davis C++ Notes: This is a useful site with help and pointers in writing C++.
UC-Davis Geometri Modeling Notes: This is a useful site with help and pointers in computer geometry.
UC-Davis Geometri Computer Graphics Notes: This is a useful site with help and pointers on computer graphics.

Image Processing Links:

Gaussian Smoothing: I found particular page useful for performing Gaussian smoothing. As it turns out, Gaussian smoothing is not just useful for image processing, but also for smoothing data sets making numerical error less noisy, making them a bit more accessible to numerical algorithms, especially those that depend upon gradients of those data.
Image Processing Learning Resources: This the homesite of the previous link, and it has many useful resources.

C++ & Programming Links:

http://www.mingw.org: This is the currently-maintained site for the mingw C++ compiler for windows. They also have a great utility called Msys that brings useful command-line utilities from Linux to the Windows desktop.
SourceForge: SourceForge hosts over 100,000 open source software projects. If you're looking for a low-cost, high-quality application to fit your need, SourceForge is a great place to start!

Technology Links:

Overclockers.com: This is a great site for overclocking as well as computer hardware and news in general.
Overclockers.com forums: I have found that the overclockers community is very helpful in troubleshooting software and hardware issues, as well as squeezing the utmost performance from existing computers.
Slashdot.org: Slashdot is a great place to keep up-to-date on technology issues. Its motto, "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." definitely fits!