Tech related links of various kinds
Papers / Books
Papers
-
Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded
Images (2008)
- Contour-based images; Representation, Creation and Manipulation (2009)
- Papers by Alvy Ray Smith (Lucasfilm's computer division and Pixar co-founder)
- Yet More Circle Generators (1990)
- A Performance Study of the Acorn RISC Machine (1990)
- Theory of edge detection (1980)
- Journal of Evolution and Technology
Books
- Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines by Marvin Minsky
(1972)
- Extrapolation, Interpolation, and smoothing of stationary time series by Norbert Wiener (1949)
- GPU Gems (look it up on a search engine; 'modern' computer graphics)
- Graphics Gems (look it up on a search engine; old-school computer graphics)
- L'audionumérique by Curtis Roads (don't know the English title)
Not tech related (but here until i move it somewhere
else)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
- On the Plurality of Worlds by David Lewis (1986)
Miscellaneous
ARM / Acorn Archimedes low-level programming / BBC Basic / RISC
OS
ARM
- Introduction to ARM (programming in ARM assembly language)
-
Another introduction to ARM (with nice ARM assembly cheat
sheet)
- In-depth explanation of ARM immediate value encoding with interactive encoder
- CPUlator ARMv7 / MIPS simulator and online debugger
- ARM2 1987 Datasheet
- ARM Assembly Language Programming (online 1987 ARM book by Pete Cockerell)
Acorn Archimedes
- Archimedes sprite drawing routines timing
- Acorn computers community board
- Archimedes Archives (Software
for Acorn Archimedes and RISC OS machines)
- MEMC timing behaviors (non-sequential cycles optimization which apply to un-cached ARM)
- Great presentation (ABug 05) by Sarah Walker about demo-coding (and optimization tricks on ARM2 / ARM250 / ARM3)
- Archimedes Benchmarks
-
VIDC1 datasheet
BBC BASIC
-
BBC BASIC tips and tricks (lots of advanced stuff)
RISC OS
Mathematics
Compression
- LZ4 algorithm (algorithm focused on decompression speed, ideal for old-school computers)
Computer graphics
Size-coding
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