(23 Jun 94) Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY [part 1/4]
Nick C. Fotis
Last-modified: 1994/23/07
Computer Graphics Resource Listing : BIWEEKLY POSTING [ PART 1/4 ]
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Last Change : 23 June 1994
Many FAQs, including this Listing, are available on the archive site
rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.209] in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers.
The name under which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line
at the top of the article.
This FAQ is archived as graphics/resources-list/part[1-4]
There's a mail server on that machine. You send a e-mail message to
mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu containing the keyword "help" (without
quotes!) in the message body.
You can see in many other places for this Listing. See the item:
0. Places to find the Resource Listing
for more information.
Items Changed:
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[ Too much work here - so I'm forced to send it out less frequently ]
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines [ NEW VERSION! ]
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists.
7. Solids description formats
10. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
17. Molecular visualization stuff
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Lines which got changed, have the `#' character in front of them.
Added lines are prepended with a `+'
Removed lines are just removed. Use 'diff' to locate these changes.
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This text is (C)Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 of Nikolaos C. Fotis. You can copy
freely this file, provided you keep this copyright notice intact.
Compiled by Nikolaos (Nick) C. Fotis, e-mail: nfo...@theseas.ntua.gr
Please contact me for updates,corrections, etc.
Disclaimer: I do not guarantee the accuracy of this document.
Use it at your own risk.
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This is mainly a guide for computer graphics software.
I would suggest reading the Comp. Graphics FAQ for image analysis stuff.
It's entitled:
(date) comp.graphics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
John T. Grieggs <gri...@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> is the poster of the
official comp.graphics FAQ
I have included my comments within braces '[' and ']'.
Nikolaos Fotis
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Contents of the Resource Listing
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PART1:
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0. Places to find the Resource Listing
1. ARCHIE
2. Notes
3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists.
6. Scene description languages
7. Solids description formats
PART2:
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8. Plotting packages
9. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
PART3:
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10. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
11. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data.
12. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
13. Introduction to rendering algorithms
a. Ray tracing
b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer)
c. Others
14. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
a. Teapot ?
b. Space Shuttle ?
15. Image annotation software - Paint Programs
16. Scientific visualization stuff
17. Molecular visualization stuff
PART 4:
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18. 3D graphics editors
a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
b. Commercial systems
19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software)
20. User Interface Builders ---- (Please send me information!)
Future additions:
[Please send me updates/info!]
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0. Places to find the Resource Listing
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This file is crossposted to comp.graphics, comp.answers and news.answers,
so if you can't locate it in comp.graphics, you're advised to search in
comp.answers or news.answers
(The latter groups usually are archived in your site. Contact your sysadmin
for more info).
These 3 articles are posted to comp.graphics 3-4 times a month and are kept in
many places (see below)
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The inria-graphlib mail server mirrors this posting (see under the
Subject 4: Mail servers )
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The Resource Listing is accesible through WAIS in the machine
enuxva.eas.asu.edu (port 8000) under the name graphics-resources-list.
It's got a digest-type line before every numbered item for purposes of
indexing.
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Another place that monitors the Listing is the MaasInfo files.
For more info contact Robert E. Maas <r...@btr.com>
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Yet another place to search for FAQs in general is the SWITCH
(Swiss Academic and Research Network) system in Switzerland:
interactive:
telnet nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40], login as "info". Move to the
info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings directory. Search in the
00index file by typing "/" and the word to look for.
You may then just read the FAQ in the "faqs" directory, or decide
to fetch it by one of the following methods.
ftp:
login to nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] as user anonymous and
enter your internet-style address after being prompted for a
password.
cd info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings
mail:
send e-mail to
RFC-822:
archive...@nic.switch.ch
X.400:
/S=archive-server/OU=nic/O=switch/PRMD=switch/ADMD=arcom/C=ch/
Enter 'help' in the bodypart to receive instructions. No information
is required in the subject header line.
1. ARCHIE
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The Archie is a service system to locate FTP places for
requested files. It's appreciated that you will use Archie
before asking help in the newsgroups.
Archie servers:
archie.au or 139.130.4.6 (Aussie/NZ)
archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100 (Finland/Eur.)
archie.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.128.111 (GER.)
cs.huji.ac.il or 132.65.6.5 (Israel)
archie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp or 130.54.20.1 (JAPAN)
archie.sogang.ac.kr or 163.239.1.11 (Korea)
archie.ncu.edu.tw or telnet 140.115.19.24 (TWN)
archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.3.7 (UK/Ireland)
archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 (USA [MD])
archie.unl.edu (password: archie1) (USA [NE])
archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.2 (USA [NY])
archie.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15 (USA [NJ])
archie.nz or 130.195.9.4 (New Zealand)
Connect to Archie server with telnet and type "archie" as username.
To get help type 'help'.
You can get 'xarchie' or 'archie', which are clients that call Archie
without the burden of a telnet session.
'Xarchie' is on the X11.R5 contrib tape, and 'archie' on comp.sources.misc,
vol. 27.
To get information on how to use Archie via e-mail, send mail with
subject "help" to "archie" account at any of above sites.
(Note to Janet/PSS users -- the United Kingdom archie site is
accessible on the Janet host doc.ic.ac.uk [000005102000].
Connect to it and specify "archie" as the host name and "archie" as
the username.)
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2. Notes
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(Excerpted from the FAQ article)
Please do *not* post or mail messages saying "I can't FTP, could
someone mail this to me?" There are a number of automated mail servers
that will send you things like this in response to a message.
There are a number of sites that archive the Usenet sources newsgroups
and make them available via an email query system. You send a message
to an automated server saying something like "send comp.sources.unix/fbm",
and a few hours or days later you get the file in the mail.
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3. Computer graphics FTP site list
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Computer graphics related FTP sites (and maintainers), 7/23/94
compiled by Eric Haines, er...@eye.com
and Nick Fotis, nfo...@theseas.ntua.gr
First are listed various computer graphics related resources, with a particular
focus on 3D rendering and modelling. As this list grew out of the Ray Tracing
News, I focus on this topic first. At the end are the FTP sites for all
software and more. Here's the table of contents:
Ray-tracers
Distributed/Parallel Raytracers
Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries
Modellers, wireframe viewers
Radiosity renderers
Volume renderers
Geometric viewers
Data Formats and Data Sets for Ray Tracing
Written Material on Rendering
Image Manipulation Libraries
Animation Players
Paint Programs
Libraries with code for graphics
FTP Sites
WWW sites
Ray-tracers:
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RayShade - a fast ray tracer for workstations on up, also for PC, Mac & Amiga,
has Linda parallel language support and distributed network support
programs; however, the package has not evolved much lately and the
author (Craig Kolb) has been too busy to fold in bug fixes and have
one official version, so things are a bit scattered at this point.
POV-Ray - Persistence of Vision ray tracer, now at version 2.2. Offspring and
successor to DKB Trace, written by Compuservers. Probably the best
free ray tracer on the IBM PC, partly because of the many programs which
support it (e.g. Moray, POVCAD, L-Parser, CTDS, etc etc etc).
There is also FTPOV-Ray, which is a faster (unofficial) POV at
informatik.
Polyray - a shareware IBM PC ray tracer, object code only, but very popular
among users; has nice features for animation generation. Its
programmer, Alexander Enzmann, also works on PoV-Ray, so features in
it tending to migrate to PoV.
Radiance - see "Radiosity", below. A physically based ray tracer, heavily
emphasizes realistic lighting and shading models. Excellent package,
well supported and works on many platforms.
ART - ray tracer with a good range of surface types, some interesting solid
texture functions; part of VORT package.
RTrace - Ray tracer by Antonio Costa, does bicubic patches, CSG, 3D text, etc.
IBM PC and Mac versions also exist. Imports many different model
formats. Also attaches to Bernard Kwok's radiosity package.
VIVID2 - A shareware raytracer for PCs - binary only (286/287). Author:
Stephen Coy (sc...@microsoft.com). The 386/387 (no source) version
is available to registered users (US$50) direct from the author.
"Bob" is a subset of this ray tracer, source available only through
disks in "Photorealism and Raytracing in C" by Christopher Watkins
et al, M&T Books.
Microcosm - Nice commercial rendering system using scripting language, from
vector representations to ray tracing. Demo available on net.
BRL-CAD - A ray-tracer, CAD package, and much more from the Ballistics Research
Laboratories. Evidently has a fair-sized, dedicated user base. Free,
but you must register it before use.
RAY4 - Steve Hollasch's 4-dimensional ray tracer - renders hyperspheres,
hypertetrahedra, hyperplanes, and hyperparallelepipeds (there's
a separate real-time wireframe viewer written in GL called WIRE4 ) .
DKBtrace - an older ray tracer, superceded by PoV-Ray.
MTV,QRT,DBW - yet more ray tracers, some with interesting features, but old.
There are a lot more than these, but these are the ones which are
"free" and have some user base.
Which one's the best? Here's a ray tracer feature comparison of some of the
more popular ones. I assume some basics, like each can run on a Unix
workstation, can render a polygon, has point lights, highlighting, reflection
& refraction, etc.
A "." means "no". Things in parentheses mean "no, but there's a workaround".
For example, POV 1.0 has no efficiency scheme so takes forever on scenes with
lots of objects, but there are programs which can generate efficiency
structures for some POV objects (also, in this case, POV 2.0 will fix this
deficiency).
Rayshade POV 1.0 RTrace Radiance Bob ART
IBM PC version? Y Y Y in 2.2 Y Y
Amiga version? Y Y . Y . (Y)
Mac version? Y Y Y A/UX . Y
Sphere/Cylinder/Cone Y Y Y Y Y Y
Torus primitive Y Y Y . . Y
Spline surface prim. . Y Y . . Y
Arbitrary Algebraic prim. . Y . . . Y
Heightfield primitive Y Y . . . Y
Metaball primitive Y Y . . . Y
Modeling matrices Y Y Y . . Y
Constructive Solid Geo. Y Y Y (antimatter) (clipping) Y
Efficiency scheme? grids (user/2.0) ABVH octtree ABVH kdtree+
2D texture mapping Y Y Y Y Y Y
3D solid textures Y strong Y Y Y Y
Advanced local shading . Y Y Much! . .
Atmospheric effects Y Y . . Y Y
Radiosity effects . . Y Y . .
Soft shadows Y (2.0) Y Y Y Y
Motion blur Y . . . . .
Depth of field effects Y . Y . Y .
Stereo pair support Y . Y . . .
Advanced filter/sample Y . Y Y Y .
Animation support Y (S/W) Y (some) . Y
Alpha channel output Y . Y . . Y
Modeler lib/P3D IBM+ (convert) on Mac w/code P3D
Model converters from NFF Many! Many! some . NFF,OFF
Network rendering Inetray . . in 2.2 . dart,nart
User support maillist maillist good digest+ little good
Other S/W support some Much! a bit some a bit some
Timings - default size SPD databases (i.e. up to 10,000 objects in a scene),
time in seconds on HP 720 workstation, optimized and gprof profiled code.
Includes time to read in the ASCII data file and set up. Note that profiling
slows down the execution times, so real times would be somewhat faster in all
cases (about 30%); plus, the profiler itself is good to +-10%. Also, these
timings are purely for this machine - results will vary considerably depending
on the platform. Now that I've explained why these are useless, here goes:
balls gears mount rings teapot tetra tree
Art/Vort 478 1315 239 595 235 84 381
Art/Vort +float 415 1129 206 501 203 72 327
Rayshade w/tweak 188 360 174 364 145 61 163
Rayshade w/grid 1107 412 174 382 145 61 1915
Radiance 289 248 165 601 150 42 197
Bob 402 747 230 831 245 50 266
RTrace 664 1481 813 1343 341 153 372
RTrace c6 m0 652 1428 811 1301 331 155 363
POV 2.0beta+ 588 1895 668 1113 306 56 542
POV 1.0 191000 1775000 409000 260000 45000 31000 250000
The gears and mount tests are probably worth ignoring because everyone handles
shadows for transparent objects differently. Some consider them opaque to
shadows, others handle it differently.
Here are timing ratios (i.e. 1 is the fastest time for a given test, with
the other timings normalized to this value):
balls gears mount rings teapot tetra tree
Art/Vort 2.54 5.30 1.45 1.63 1.62 2.00 2.34
Art/Vort +float 2.21 4.55 1.25 1.38 1.40 1.71 2.01
Rayshade w/tweak 1 1.45 1.05 1 1 1.45 1
Rayshade w/grid 5.89 1.66 1.05 1.05 1 1.45 11.75
Radiance 1.54 1 1 1.65 1.03 1 1.21
Bob 2.14 3.01 1.39 2.28 1.69 1.19 1.63
RTrace 3.53 5.97 4.93 3.69 2.35 3.64 2.28
RTrace c6 m0 3.47 5.76 4.92 3.57 2.28 3.69 2.23
POV 2.0beta+ 3.13 7.64 4.05 3.06 2.11 1.33 3.33
POV 1.0 1015.96 7157.26 2478.79 714.29 310.34 738.10 1533.74
Art/Vort was compiled with and without a "+f" compiler option; with it on
floating point numbers are not promoted to doubles during expression
evaluation (and so things runs noticeably faster). Other packages may benefit
from such compiler options.
Rayshade had some minor user intervention. The ceiling of the cube root of
the number of objects in the scene was used as the efficiency grid resolution.
For example, balls has 7382 objects: cube root is 19.47, ceiling is then 20,
so a 20 x 20 x 20 grid was used. Rayshade needs hand tweaking of the grid
structures for extra efficiency (esp. with balls and tree), though this is
fairly simple for the SPD tests (i.e. leave the background polygon out of the
grid structure). Tweaking in these cases means leaving ground plane polygon
(if it exists) out of the grid structure.
Radiance is quite different in its approach, as it is more physically based.
Efficiency structures are built in a separate program (so the time spent doing
this is not included in the above stats). Also, Radiance outputs in a
floating point format (which can be quite handy).
RTrace is often a bit faster when the "c6 m0" options are used.
POV 2.0 has an efficiency scheme built in and so is comparable to the others,
so don't get freaked out by the POV 1.0 performance numbers.
Distributed/Parallel Raytracers:
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XDART - A distributed ray-tracer that runs under X11. There are server binaries
which work only on DECstations, SPARCs, HP Snakes (7x0 series) and NeXT.
The clients are distributed as binaries and C source.
Inetray - A network version of Rayshade 4.0. Needs Sun RPC 4.0 or newer.
Contact Andreas Thurnherr (a...@ips.id.ethz.ch)
RRLib - Another distributed version of Rayshade.
Contact: Wilfried Koch <bj...@aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
prt, VM_pRAY - parallel ray tracers.
Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries:
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SIPP - Scan line z-buffer and Phong shading renderer.
Now uses the shadow buffer algorithm.
Tcl-SIPP - a Tcl command interface to the SIPP rendering
program. Tcl-SIPP is a set of Tcl commands used to programmed
SIPP without having to write and compile C code.
Commands are used to specify surfaces, objects,
scenes and rendering options.
It renders either in PPM format or in Utah Raster Toolkit RLE format
or to the photo widget in the Tk-based X11 applications.
VOGLE - graphics learning environment (device portable).
VOGL - an SGI GL-like library based on VOGLE.
REND386 - A *fast* polygon renderer for IBM PC 386s and up. Version 2 on up.
[ It's not photorealistic, but rather a real-time renderer]
RENDERLIB - 3D DLL for IBM PC Windows 3.0, RLIBDEMO.ZIP.
XSHARP21 - Dr. Dobb's Journal PC renderer source code, with budget texture
mapping.
Modellers, wireframe viewers:
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Moray, POVCAD - modelers for the PC for POV.
BLOB - Fun blobby modeler for PC (output to POV, DXF, etc)
VISION-3D - Mac modeler, can output Radiance & Rayshade files.
IRIT - A CSG solid modeler, with support for freeform surfaces.
BRL-CAD - A CAD modeler, comes with ray tracer, image support, etc etc.
P3D - See volume rendering section.
X3D - A wireframe viewer for X11.
3DV - 3-D wireframe graphics toolkit, with C source, 3dv objects, other stuff
Look at major PC archives like wuarchive. One such file is 3DKIT1.ZIP
(at romulus.ulowell.edu)
PV3D - a shareware front end modeler for POVRAY 2.x and Vivid 2.x
(latest version: 2.10). French docs for now, price for
registering 250 French Francs. Save disabled.
Some extra utilities for the registered version.
Contact: leco...@ccbbs.gna.org (Lecointe Ludovic)
Xmgf - A Motif based Object viewer ( public domain, with source )
Xmgf can read other CAD or object file formats via filters. Current
formats include NFF/OBJ/OFF/RAY/SLA/DXF/MINICAD/IGRIP. These filters
do not cover all the features avaliable but they are a start.
Xmgf Auto-scales images,can have the viewing parameters stored in a file
produce Xfig and Postscript and MIF output as well as RAYSHADE data
files and PGM, PBM and XBM SunRaster and GIF image outputs.
Contact: Paul Hoad <P.H...@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
Multiverse - X11R4 & Berkeley sockets animator and more.
AERO - actually, it's a rigid-body visualizer and animator.
Radiosity renderers:
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Radiance - a ray tracer w/radiosity effects, by Greg Ward. Excellent shading
models and physically based lighting simulation. Unix/X based, though
has been ported to the Amiga and the PC (386).
RAD - a simple public-domain radiosity package in C. The solution can be run
stand-alone on any Unix box, but the walk-through requires a SGI 4D.
Author: Bernard Kwok <g-k...@cs.yorku.ca>
INDIA - An Indian radiosity package based on Radiance.
SGI_RAD - An interactive radiosity package that runs on SGI machines with a
Spaceball. It includes a house database.
Author: Guy Moreillon <more...@ligsg1.epfl.ch>
NeXTrad - yet another (minimal) radiosity package, for the NeXT computers
(requires NeXTSTEP 3.0+)
Volume renderers:
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P3D - Outputs to Rayshade, DXF, RenderMan, Art, and others.
VREND - Cornell's Volume Renderer, from Kartch/Devine/Caffey/Warren (FORTRAN).
Bob - Brick of Bytes, for SGI machines from UMN
Geometric viewers:
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SALEM - A GL-based package from Dobkin et al. for exploring mathematical
structures.
GEOMVIEW - A GL-based package for looking and interactively manipulating
3D objects, from Geometry Center at Minnesota.
(There are SGI and NeXT versions at least)
XYZ GeoBench -(eXperimental geometrY Zurich) is a workbench for geometric
computation for Macintosh computers.
WIRE4 - GL wireframe previewer for Steve Hollasch's RAY4 (see above)
Data Formats and Data Sets for Ray Tracing:
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SPD - a set of procedural databases for testing ray tracers.
NFF - simplistic file format used by SPD.
OFF - another file format.
P3D - a lispy file format.
TDDD - Imagine (3D modeler) format, has converters for RayShade, NFF, OFF, etc.
Also includes a nice postscript object displayer. Some GREAT models.
T3DLIB - converts to/from TDDD/TTDDD, OFF, NFF, Rayshade 4.0, Imagine,
and vort 3d objects. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric
views in Postscript. Registered users get a TeX PK font converter and
a superquadric surfaces generator.
Glenn Lewis <gle...@pcocd2.intel.com>
MSDL - Manchester Scene Description Language. The distribution consists of
the definition for a 3D scene description language, and a parser to
help users write applications to read scenes. The user compiles the
parser, and links it to his or her application. Included with the
distribution are utilities to help convert OFF file into MSDL objects.
Some samples scenes are also available.
Contact: cgu-...@mcc.ac.uk
WorldWideWeb pages at http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/MSDL/MSDL-intro.html
Volume Rendering Data:
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CHVRTD - Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Datasets, includes volume sets for
two heads, a brain, a knee, electron density maps for RNA and others.
AVS - Volume Visualization datasets.
Written Material on Rendering:
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RT News - collections of articles on ray tracing.
RT abstracts - collection by Tom Wilson of abstracts of many RT articles.
RT bib - references to articles on ray tracing in "refer" format.
Rad bib - references to articles on radiosity (global illumination).
Speer RT bib - Rick Speer's cross-referenced RT bib, in postscript.
Paper bank project - various technical papers in electronic form. Contact
Juhana Kouhia <jk8...@cs.tut.fi>
Online Bibliography Project :
The ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project is a database of
over 15,000 unique computer graphics and computational geometry
references in BibTeX format, available to the computer graphics
community as a research and educational resource.
The database is located at "siggraph.org". Users may download
the BibTeX files via FTP and peruse them offline, or telnet to
"siggraph.org" and log in as "biblio" and interactively search
the database for entries of interest, by keyword.
For the people without Internet access, there's also an e-mail
server. Send mail to
and in the subject or the body of the message include the message send
followed by the topic and subtopic you wish. A good place to start is
with the command
send index
which will give you an up-to-date list of available information.
Questions should be directed to the admin,
"biba...@siggraph.org".
Image Manipulation Libraries:
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Utah Raster Toolkit - nice image manipulation tools.
PBMPLUS - a great package for image conversion and manipulation.
LIBTIFF - library for reading/writing TIFF images.
ImageMagick - X11 package for display and interactive manipulation
of images. Includes tools for image conversion, annotation,
compositing, animation, and creating montages.
Uses its own format (MIFF), and includes some converters.
xv - X-based image display, manipulation, and format converter.
xloadimage, xli - displays various formats on an X11 screen.
Khoros - a huge, excellent system for image processing, with a visual
programming interface and much much more. Uses X windows.
FBM - another set of image manipulation tools, somewhat old now.
Img - image manipulation, displays on X11 screen, a bit old now.
SDSC - SDSC Image Tools package (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
for image manipulation and conversion
Animation Players
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xflick - Plays .FLI animation under X11
XAnim - plays any resolution FLI along with GIF's(including GIF89a animation
extensions), AVI, Quicktime, DL's and Amiga IFF animations(3,5,J,l)
and IFF pictures(including HAM,EHB, and color cycling). Runs under
Unix / VMS and has many new animation types added everyday.
PVRG-MPEG - Portable Video Research Group at Stanford' MPEG sequence
compression and decompression engines (codecs) for MPEG, CCITT H.261,
and JPEG. The primary goal of these codecs is to provide the
functionality, not speed.
UCB-MPEG - MPEG decoder/viewer of the Berkeley Plateau Research group (with
X11 support)
Paint Programs
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CLRpaint - A 24-bit paint program for SGI 24bit workstations and 8bit Indigos.
BIT - Another 24-bit paint program for SGI machines.
[ Described under Subject 15 : Image annotation software ]
Xpaint - paint program for X11 systems.
[ Described under Subject 15 : Image annotation software ]
Libraries with code for graphics:
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Graphics Gems I,II,III,IV - code from the ever so useful books.
spline-patch.tar.Z - spline patch ray intersection routines by Sean Graves
kaleido - Computation and 3D Display of Uniform Polyhedra. Mirrored in
wuarchive. This package computes (and displays) the metrical
properties of 75 polyhedra. Author: Dr. Zvi Har'El,
e-mail: r...@gauss.technion.ac.il
qhull - Source code in C for general dimension convex hull and Delaunay
triangulation. You can view the results in 3-d and 4-d with geomview.
Contact: Brad Barber (bar...@geom.umn.edu)
Nurbs - University of Manchester NURBS library.
This C library provides NURBS creation, elevation, interpolation,
extrusion and revolution functions, as well as a simple function
to post the representation into an implementation of PHIGS PLUS.
Available for both UNIX & VAX/OpenVMS.
Contact: cgu-...@mcc.ac.uk
WorldWideWeb pages at
http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/NURBS/nurbs_library.html
Morphology - Mathematical morphology package. Morphological operators are
shape-dependent, nonlinear image transforms such as erosion, dilation,
opening, closing, and rank filters. The software includes a 2D image
morphology program, a 3D voxel image morphology program, a program for
enhancement and noise reduction of 2D images, and related support
routines for image arithmetic and logical operations.
FTP Sites
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(*) means site is an "official" distributor, so is most up to date.
NORTH AMERICA (please look for things on your own continent first...):
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wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]: This one has almost everything, but is
also very busy - try during off-hours.
/graphics/graphics - get CONTENTS file for a roadmap. Within this
directory are a wide range of resources, including:
bib - various ray tracing, radiosity, and general bibliographies.
books - code from books and errata listings for various texts.
echidna - Univ. of Melbourne programs: vogl/e, vopl, vort.
hershey-fonts - public domain stroke fonts.
objects - various object databases (TDDD, SPD, OFF, polyhedra, nurbs).
packages - image manipulation, CAD, and other graphics packages.
papers - various graphics papers.
radiosity - includes Radiance.
ray - many ray tracers, RTNews, Wilson's RT abstract collection, etc.
non-3d - 4d & hyperbolic space visualization.
virtual-worlds - VR related material.
The mirrors directory is huge, including many major sites, including
the official POV archive, the Oldenburg POV site, the Geometry Center,
NCSA, SGI, Virtual Worlds archive, Avalon object descriptions, Virtual
Reality archive, and more.
There is also various platform dependent graphics software, e.g.
/msdos/ddjmag/ddj9209.zip - version 21 of Xsharp, with fast texture
mapping.
/pub/aminet/gfx/3d - T3DLIB package.
/pub/aminet/gfx/3dobj - TDDD objects.
/pub/aminet/pix/trace - various raytraced images.
/pub/aminet/pix/wb - workbench wallpaper (IFF) images, textures.
admin: George Kyriazis <kyri...@esd.sgi.com>
princeton.edu [128.112.128.1]: home of lots of ray tracing related software
/pub/Graphics (note capital "G") - *Rayshade 4.0.6 ray tracer (and
separate 387 executable)*, *color quantization code*, *SPD*,
*RT News*, *Wilson's RT abstracts*, "RT bib*, *Utah Raster
Toolkit*, newer FBM, *Graphics Gems I through IV code*,
*RRLib*.
/pub/graphics directory - *SALEM* and other stuff.
/pub/trees/drinkwater - tree images from Drinkwater's growing program.
admin: Craig Kolb <c...@princeton.edu>
[upload to ftp.cs.princeton.edu:/incoming]
avalon.chinalake.navy.mil [129.131.44.11]: pub - 3D objects (multiple formats),
utilities, file format documents. obj/Viewpoint and New are
particularly good quality. utils/misc - PV3D. misc/texture - textures.
This site was created to be a 3D object "repository" for the net.
It's mirrored from ftp.kpc.com and wuarchive.wustl.edu .
Francisco X DeJesus <dej...@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil>
alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]: /pub/pov-ray/POV-Ray2.2 - *POVRay
Compuserve group ray tracer (or POV)* and models. /pub/dkbtrace -
*DKB ray tracer* (now ancient history).
David Buck <david...@carleton.ca>
omicron.cs.unc.edu [152.2.128.159]: pub/softlab/CHVRTD - Chapel Hill
Volume Rendering Test Datasets.
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.154.76] : pub/tcl/extensions/tsipp-3.0c.tar.Z -
*Tcl-SIPP*
Mark Diekhans <ma...@grizzly.com>
moose.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.254.191]: /pub/RW5 - test databases for radiosity
and other serious illumination simulation algorithms.
Peter Shirley <shi...@cs.indiana.edu>
ftp.mv.com [192.80.84.1]: pub/ddj - Official Dr. Dobbs Journal FTP repository.
*XSHARP*
hobbes.lbl.gov [128.3.12.38]: pub - *Radiance* ray trace/radiosity package,
pictures, ports, etc.
Greg Ward <gjw...@lbl.gov>
ftp.arc.umn.edu [137.66.130.11] : pub/gvl.tar.Z - the latest version of *Bob*,
Icol and Raz. Source, a manual, man pages, and binaries for
IRIX 4.0.5 are included (Bob is a real time volume renderer)
pub/ contains also many volume datasets.
Ken Chin-Purcell <k...@ahpcrc.umn.edu>
geom.umn.edu [128.101.25.31] : pub/software/geomview - *GEOMVIEW* and other
Geometry Center visualization packages.
Contact: soft...@geom.umn.edu
pub/qhull.tar.Z (Mac version : qhull.sit.hqx) - *qhull*
ftp.kpc.com [144.52.120.9] : /pub/graphics/holl91 - Steve Hollasch's
Thesis, /pub/graphics/ray4 - *RAY4*, /pub/graphics/wire4 - *WIRE4*.
/pub/mirror/avalon - mirror of avalon's 3D objects repository.
Steve Hollasch <holl...@kpc.com>
swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] : programs/hollasch-4d - RAY4,
SGI Explorer modules and Postscript manual, etc.
jazz.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.88.159]:
dist/bathymetry - *global sea depth/topography grid+goodies*,
dist/triangulation - voronoi/delauney triangulation in 2D,
dist/fastfouriertransform - standard fft routine, mixed radix
dist/f77hiccups - a collection of nasty f77 sources
E. Schrama (esch...@geodesy2.gsfc.nasa.gov)
cs.usask.ca [128.233.130.10] : pub/geometry/geombib.tar.Z - Computational
Geometry bibliography (very extensive, 5539 entries to date).
Bill Jones <jo...@skdad.usask.ca>
zamenhof.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.75] : pub/graphics.formats - Various electronic
documents about many object and image formats. pub/morphine -
morphing package.
Mark Hall <f...@cs.rice.edu>
will apparently no longer be maintaining it, see ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
rascal.ics.utexas.edu [128.83.144.1]: /misc/mac/inqueue - VISION-3D facet
based modeller, can output RayShade and Radiance files.
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.20.50] : misc/file.formats/graphics.formats -
contains various image- and object-format descriptions. Many SciVi
tools in various directories, e.g. SGI/Alpha-shape/Alvis-1.0.tar.Z -
3D alpha-shape visualizer (SGI machines only),
SGI/Polyview3.0/polyview.Z - interactive visualization and analysis of
3D geometrical structures, outputs in Rayshade and RIB formats.
/outgoing/marca/natural-textures - various textures (temporary).
Quincey Koziol <koz...@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1] : /iraf - the IRAF astronomy package
ftp.ipl.rpi.edu [128.113.14.50]: pub/image - various 24 and 8 bit image
stills and sequences. Kevin Martin <si...@ipl.rpi.edu>
ftp.psc.edu [128.182.66.148]: pub/p3d - p3d_2_0.tar P3D lispy scene
language & renderers. Joel Welling <wel...@seurat.psc.edu>
ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*, pub/ray - RayShade data files.
Jef Poskanzer <j...@ace.ee.lbl.gov>
george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93]: pub/ccs-lib/ccs.tar.Z - *CCS* (Complex
Conversion System), an image conversion & manipulation package.
pub/scry.tar.Z - Scry, a SciVi utility
havefun.stanford.edu [36.2.0.35] : pub/mpeg/MPEGv?.?.tar.Z - *PVRG-MPEG*
sepftp.stanford.edu [36.51.0.59] : pub/Vplot - the Vplot graphics system,
pub/World_Map - The CIA World Map II vector outline database,
[ It's the new name for hanauma.stanford.edu ]
ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.2]: /graphics - *IRIT*, old RT News back issues (not
complete), NURBS models, other graphics related material,
graphics/3D/tsipp.3.0b.tar.Z - Tcl-SIPP (SIPP with Tcl interface),
/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v?.tar.Z - Independent JPEG Group package for
reading and writing JPEG files.
knob2.engin.umich.edu [141.212.102.27] : *Utah Raster Toolkit*
Spencer Thomas <tho...@eecs.umich.edu>
ftp.x.org [198.112.44.100] : /contrib - pbmplus, Image Magick, xloadimage, xli,
xv, Img, *Xmgf*, *XAnim*, lots more X-related programs.
/pub/R5untarred/mit/demos/gpc - NCGA
Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Suite.
cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - Utah raster toolkit, *NURBS databases*.
Jamie Painter <ja...@cs.utah.edu>
artemis.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.115.149]: /sig-wtk/models - variety of DXF and
NFF models.
gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*,
pub/graphics - jpeg, Khoros, pbmplus, Rayshade, Utah RLE, libtiff.
data/cia-wdb - CIA world database
ftp.khoros.unm.edu [198.59.155.28]: /pub/khoros - *Khoros image processing
package (huge, but great)*.
Danielle Argiro <dani...@bullwinkle.unm.edu>
dpls.dacc.wisc.edu [144.92.188.90] : /graphics/x3d/x3d.2.2.tar.Z - *X3D*,
/graphics/xdart/xdart.1.1.* - *XDART*,
/graphics/mcm - *Microcosm* - demo of nice rendering and ray tracing
system using an interpreted scripting language.
/graphics/utilities - ImageMagick 2.3
Cosmic Software <cos...@world.std.com>
Mark Spychalla <s...@castlab.engr.wisc.edu>
sgi.com [192.48.153.1]: /graphics/tiff - TIFF 6.0 spec & *LIBTIFF* software
and pics. Also much SGI- and GL-related stuff (e.g. OpenGL manuals)
Sam Leffler <s...@sgi.com>
[supercedes okeeffe.berkeley.edu for the LIBTIFF stuff]
ftp.sdsc.edu [132.249.20.22]: /sdscpub - *SDSC*
ftp.brl.mil [128.63.16.158]: /brl-cad - information on how to get the
BRL CAD package & ray tracer.
/pub/textures - a texture library has also begun here; not much here.
Lee A. Butler <but...@BRL.MIL>
ftp.cdrom.com [192.216.222.5] : an aminet (Amiga network) site, among many
others.
/pub/aminet/gfx/3d - T3DLIB package.
/pub/aminet/gfx/3dobj - TDDD objects.
/pub/aminet/pix/trace - various raytraced images.
/pub/aminet/pix/wb - workbench wallpaper (IFF) images, textures.
cicero.cs.umass.edu [128.119.40.189]: /texture_temp - 512x512 grayscale
Brodatz textures,
from Julien Flack <jul...@scs.leeds.ac.uk>.
karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.7.6]: pub/Graphics:
rtabs.shar.12.90.Z - *Wilson's RT abstracts*,
speer.raytrace.bib.ps.Z - Speer RT bibliography.
J. Eric Townsend <j...@karazm.math.uh.edu>
ftp.pitt.edu [130.49.253.1]: /users/q/r/qralston/images - 24 bit image archive
(small). James Ralston Crawford <qral...@gl.pitt.edu>
ftp.tc.cornell.edu [128.84.201.1]: /pub/vis - *VREND*
/pub/vis/Data.Explorer - IBM Data Explorer repository
sunee.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.50.50]: /pub/rend386 - *REND386*
cica.cica.indiana.edu: The MS Windows archive. Among other things,
RLIBDEMO.ZIP - RENDERLIB 3D graphics DLL, desktop/gcad110.zip -
GammaCAD 1.10, programr/3dlib30a.zip - C++ & Pascal 3D graphic
animation
archive.umich.edu [141.211.164.153]: /msdos/graphics - PC graphics stuff.
/msdos/graphics/raytrace - VIVID2.
netlib.att.com [192.20.225.2]: netlib/polyhedra - *polyhedra databases*.
(If you don't have FTP, use the netlib automatic mail replier:
net...@netlib.att.com. Send one line message "send index" for info.
siggraph.org [128.248.245.250]: SIGGRAPH archive site.
publications/bibliography - extremely extensive computer graphics
bibliography. Automatic mailer is archive...@siggraph.org
("send index").
Conference proceedings in various electronic formats (papers, panels),
SIGGRAPH Video Review information and order forms.
ftp.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159]: pub/reaction_diffusion - Greg Turk's work on
reaction-diffusion textures, X windows code (SIGGRAPH '91), pub -
L-system code.
avs.ncsc.org [128.109.178.23]: sample_data/VolVis92 - Volume datasets
from the Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization '92. This site is
also the International AVS Center.
Terry Myerson <t...@ncsc.org>
uvacs.cs.virginia.edu [128.143.8.100]: pub/suit/demo/{sparc,dec,etc} - SUIT
(Simple User Interface Toolkit). "finger su...@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu"
to get detailed instructions.
nexus.yorku.ca [130.63.9.66]: /pub/reports/Radiosity_code.tar.Z - *RAD*
/pub/reports/Radiosity_thesis.ps.Z - *RAD MSc. Thesis*
[This site may change to ftp.yorku.ca in the future]
earthsea.stanford.edu [36.60.0.64] : ftp/pub/lego/cad/click and
.../cad/rayshade - LEGO modeling tools and definitions for Rayshade.
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.52]: pub/siggraph92 - Code for
Siggraph '92 Course 23 (Procedural Modeling and Rendering Techniques)
lyapunov.ucsd.edu [132.239.86.10]: This machine is considered the
repository for preprints and programs for nonlinear dynamics,
signal processing, and related subjects (and fractals, of course!)
Matt Kennel <m...@inls1.ucsd.edu>
belvoir-arl-irisgt.army.mil [140.183.6.108] : pub/viewtree/images - various
generated tree images (quite nice!), runnable demo for SGI's.
Jason Weber <ja...@belvoir-arl-irisgt.army.mil>
ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]: /honig --- Various stereo-pair images
movie.c - animates a movie on an X display (8-bit and mono) with
digital subtraction.
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu [128.123.35.151] : os2/2_x/graphics/rt.zip - CSG (?) ray
tracer for PC with source, uses the GBM module for file I/O (found
in same directory as gbmsrc.zip).
Andy Key <a...@hursley.ibm.com>
taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil [131.120.1.13]: pub/dabro/cyberware_demo.tar.Z - Human
head data
pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217]: pub/texture_maps - Hans du Buf's grayscale
test textures (aerial swatches, Brodatz textures, synthetic swatches).
Space & planetary image repository. Provides access to >150 CD-ROMS
with data/images (3 on-line at a time).
/beginner-info - here you should start browsing.
[not sure about this site, no answer the last time I tried it]
Colby Kraybill <op...@pioneer.unm.edu>.
cs.brown.edu [128.148.33.66] : *SRGP/SPHIGS* . For more info on SRGP/SPHIGS:
mail -s 'software-distribution' grap...@cs.brown.edu
pdb.pdb.bnl.gov [130.199.144.1] has data about various organic molecules,
bonds between the different atoms, etc.
Atomic coordinates (and a load of other stuff) are contained in the
"*.ent" files, but the actual atomic dimensions seem to be missing.
You could convert these data to PoV, rayshade, etc.
biome.bio.ns.ca [142.2.20.2] : /pub/art - some Renoir paintings,
Escher's pictures, etc.
ic16.ee.umanitoba.ca [130.179.8.95] : /specmark - sample set of images from the
`Images from the Edge' CD-ROM (images of atomic landscapes, advanced
semiconductors, superconductors and experimental surface
chemistry among others). Contact rus...@ee.umanitoba.ca
acs.cps.msu.edu [35.9.24.92]: pub/sass - Rayshade tools: X windows font
converter and animation tool. Ron Sass <sa...@cps.msu.edu>
explorer.dgp.toronto.edu [128.100.1.129] : pub/sgi/clrpaint - *CLRpaint*
pub/sgi/clrview.* - CLRview, a tool that aids in visualization
of GIS datasets in many formats like DXF, DEM, Arc/Info, etc.
ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM - images from Magellan
and Viking missions etc. Get pub/SPACE/Index first.
pub/SPACELINK has most of the SpaceLink service data (see below)
e-mail server available: send mail to archive...@ames.arc.nasa.gov
(or ames!archive-server) with subject:"help"
or "send SPACE Index" (without the quotes!)
Peter Yee <y...@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.6.2]: images, other data, etc. from JPL
missions. Modem access at (818)-354-1333 (no parity, 8 data bits, 1
stop bit).
news...@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov or phone (818)-354-7170
spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov [128.158.13.250] (passwd:guest) : space graphics
and GIF images from NASA's planetary probes and the Hubble Telescope.
Main function is support for teachers (you can telnet also to this
site). Dial up access: (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud,
8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit).
stsci.edu [130.167.1.2] : Hubble Space Telescope stuff (images and other
data). Read the README first!
Pete Reppert <rep...@stsci.edu> or Chris O'Dea <od...@stsci.edu>
ftp.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.2] :
public/virtual-worlds - *multiverse* client-server VR system
public/virtual-worlds/veos - VEOS Virtual Reality and distributed
applications prototyping environment for Unix.
Veos Software Support : veos-s...@hitl.washington.edu
oldpublic/fly - FLY! 3D Visualization Software demo.
That package is built for "fly-throughs" from various datasets in
near real-time. There are binaries for many platforms.
Much stuff on Virtual Reality, including many product review files
and other resources.
zug.csmil.umich.edu [141.211.184.2]: X-Xpecs 3D files (an LCD glass shutter
for Amiga computers - great for VR stuff!)
sunsite.unc.edu [152.2.22.81]: /pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality -
Final copy of the sugrfx.acs.syr.edu archive that ceased to exist.
It contains Powerglove code, VR papers, 3D images and IRC research
material.
Jonathan Magid <j...@sunSITE.unc.edu>
ftp.apple.com [130.43.2.3] : pub/VR/graphics.systems - Gossamer 2.0, real
time rendering for the Mac.
Jon Blossom <jo...@microsoft.com>
spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78] : pub/map/dem - USGS DEM data, plus lots of
other map data related archives.
charon.er.usgs.gov [128.128.40.24] : /pub/PROJ.4.1.3.tar.Z - library of map
projections
iris.ssec.wisc.edu [144.92.108.63]: pub/vis5d - 5D visualizer (for weather
data, things like that).
vacation.venari.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.209.207]: zbuf.tar - Rayshade z-depth output
patch.
cs.ubc.ca [137.82.8.5] : /ftp/pickup/spline - example images and data files
for a Dragon head and body, a human knee, and a human finger produced
with a local Hierarchical B-Spline modeler.
/pub/local/vista - Vista computer vision software
math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1] :
/pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews/software/graphics/raist -
images done using Real3D. pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews -
reviews of Amiga products (including renderers, etc).
Dan Barrett <bar...@math.uh.edu>
herx1.colorado.edu: /pub/irt/irt52.zip - optics ray tracing program (said to
be buggy, though).
toe.cs.berkeley.edu [128.32.149.117]: pub/multimedia/mpeg/mpeg-?.0.tar.Z -
*UCB-MPEG*
dgp.toronto.edu [128.100.1.129] : pub/dret/PhD - George Drettakis' PhD thesis
on radiosity & global illumination, w/tiff files.
Also at ftp.csri.toronto.edu [128.100.2.18]: csri-technical-reports/293.
George Drettakis <dr...@dgp.toronto.edu>
ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] :
/afs/cs/misc/rayshade/all_mach/omega/doc/Examples - Rayshade
example images.
oak.oakland.edu [141.210.10.117] : pub/msdos/graphics/frain182.zip and
frasr182.zip - Fractint fractal generator executable and source.
Lots of other DOS software,
e.g. pub/msdos/graphics/pbmpl19d.zip is PBMplus for DOS.
seq1.loc.gov [140.147.3.12] : /pub/vatican.exhibit - Library of Congress'
*HUGE* scanned images from Vatican Library's Renaissance Culture
Exhibit which was done from January 8, 1993 through April 30, 1993.
K.D. Ellis <ke...@seq1.loc.gov>
sun.irus.rri.uwo.ca [129.100.7.136]: - MacCubeView
(3D image display program for the Macintosh - displays 8-bit MRI
images)
Daniel W. Rickey <dri...@irus.rri.uwo.ca>
monte.svec.uh.edu [129.7.2.23] : /pub/bit - *BIT*
ftp.cs.rose-hulman.edu [137.112.40.250] : pub/CS_dept/NeXtrad.tar.Z - *NeXTrad*
image.vanderbilt.edu [129.59.100.16] : /pub/morph.tar.Z - *Morphology*
Richard Alan Peters II <ra...@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
willis.cis.uab.edu [138.26.64.2] : pub/sloan/ContoursRelease.tar.Z -
*A package for making surfaces from slices by Ken Sloan*
Reference: ACM Transactions on Graphics, July 1992.
Kenneth Sloan <sl...@cis.uab.edu>
merlin.etsu.edu [192.43.199.20]: - VistaPro version of many USGS DEM files
Brian Wright <wri...@merlin.etsu.edu>
laser.elmer.alaska.edu [137.229.17.151] and
charon.elmer.alaska.edu [137.229.17.254]: pub/DLG_CLG - Software for
construction and playback of DLG grey scale animations.
DLG files are available between 5:00pm and 7:00am Alaska Standard
Time (one hour later than Pacific standard time) at laser.
ftp.hyperion.com [192.65.216.1] : Home of the SciFi TV series Babulon 5.
Contains many JPEG and GIF images, plus other stuff about the
series.
ftp.netcom.com [192.100.81.1] :
/pub/natpix - some demos and freebies for Mac/SGI.
/pub/cfogg/mpeg2 - MPEG2 encoders, source, and sample video sequences.
ftp.nosc.mil [128.49.16.7] : /pub/grid.{ps,TeX,asc} - a short survey of methods
to interpolate and contour bivariate data.
rtfm.mit.edu [18.181.0.24] : /pub/usenet/news.answers - the land of FAQs.
Graphics and pictures directories of particular interest. (Also
available from mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu by sending a mail message
containing: "help")
EUROPE:
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nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]: *pub/sci/papers - *Paper bank project,
including Pete Shirley's entire thesis (with pics)*, *Wilson's RT
abstracts*, Wilt's OORT code, pub/misc/CIA_WorldMap - CIA world data
bank, comp.graphics.research archive, *India*, *Phoenix true color
bitmap editor under X/Motif* and much, much more.
Juhana Kouhia <jk8...@cs.tut.fi>
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de [134.106.1.9]: /pub/pov-ray - *POV
raytracer*, *PV3D*, Polyray, BLOB, etc. wuarchive.wustl.edu:
/mirrors/ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de mirrors these directories of
POV tools, etc. Newest tools are in the /pub/pov-ray/new
directory. mirror at: ftp.uni-erlangen.de:
/pub/pc/msdos/graphics/pov-ray.
nestor.epfl.ch [128.178.139.3]: /pub/unix/radiance - Radiance. Good for
European sites, but doesn't carry the add-ons that are available for
Radiance.
isy.liu.se [130.236.1.3]: pub/sipp/sipp-3.0.tar.Z - *SIPP* scan line z-buffer
and Phong shading renderer. Jonas Yngvesson <jon...@isy.liu.se>
irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD
NFF format scenes, RayShade data files. Didier Badouel
<bad...@irisa.irisa.fr> [may have disappeared]
phoenix.oulu.fi [130.231.240.17]: *FLI RayTracker animation files (PC VGA) -
also big .FLIs (640*480)* *RayScene demos* [Americans: check wuarchive
first]. More animations to come. Jari Kahkonen
<ho...@phoenix.oulu.fi>
peipa.essex.ac.uk [155.245.115.161]: the Pilot European Image Processing
Archive; in a directory ipa, there are image synthesis packages.
(examples: Khoros, image processing bibliographies, image
converters, SciVi programs, etc.)
Adrian Clarke <al...@essex.ac.uk>
(was: jyu.fi) [128.214.7.5]: /pub/graphics/ray-traces - many ray tracers,
including VM_pRAY, DBW, DKB, MTV, QRT, RayShade, some RT News, NFF
files. Jari Toivanen <toiv...@jyu.fi>
garbo.uwasa.fi [128.214.87.1]: Much PC stuff, etc., /pc/source/contour.f -
FORTRAN program to contour scattered data using linear triangle-based
interpolation
asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17]: pub/RTrace - *RTrace* nffutils.tar.Z (NFF
utilities for RTrace), medical data (CAT, etc.) converters to NFF,
Autocad to NFF Autolisp code, AUTOCAD 11 to SCN (RTrace's language)
converter and other goodies. Antonio Costa (a...@asterix.inescn.pt)
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.211.2]: AERO, a virtual mechanics
system, ties in with POVray and MPEG.
Hartmut Keller <kel...@hermes.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
(was: vega.hut.fi) [128.214.3.82]: /graphics - RTN archive, ray tracers
(MTV, QRT, others), NFF, some models.
teeri.oulu.fi [130.231.48.141] : pub/msdos/programming - files on game
development on PCs, ray tracing, 3D, and too much more.
Jouni Miettunen <j...@teeri.oulu.fi>
sun4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]: /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV, etc
ftp.luth.se [130.240.0.25]: graphics/raytracing - prt, others, ~/Doc -
*Wilson's RT abstracts*, Vivid. /pub/aminet - aminet site (see
wuarchive listing).
ftp.fu-berlin.de [130.20.225.2]: /pub/unix/graphics/rayshade4.0/inputs -
aq.tar.Z is RayShade aquarium [Americans: check princeton.edu first).
Heiko Schlichting <he...@math.fu-berlin.de>
maggia.ethz.ch [129.132.17.1]: pub/inetray - *Inetray* and Sun RPC 4.0 code
Andreas Thurnherr <a...@ips.id.ethz.ch>
osgiliath.id.dth.dk [129.142.65.24]: /pub/amiga/graphics/Radiance - *Amiga
port of Radiance 2.0*. Per Bojsen <boj...@ithil.id.dth.dk>
iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10]: Graphtal L-system interpreter (includes
animation support, X11 and x-buffer previewer, output for Rayshade).
Christoph Streit <str...@iam.unibe.ch>
ftp.uni-kl.de [131.246.9.95]: /pub/amiga/raytracing/imagine - mirror of
the hubcap Imagine files (hubcap is no longer around).
unix.hensa.ac.uk [129.12.21.7] : misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z - CGM viewer and
converter.
There's an e-mail server also - mail to arc...@unix.hensa.ac.uk
with the message body "send misc/unix/ralcgm/ralcgm.tar.Z"
maeglin.mt.luth.se [130.240.0.25]: graphics/raytracing - prt, others, ~/Doc -
*Wilson's RT abstracts*, Vivid.
stesis.hq.eso.org [134.171.8.100]: on-line access to a huge astronomical
database. (login:starcat;no passwd)
DECnet:STESIS (It's the Space Telescope European Coordination Facility)
Benoit Pirenne <bpir...@eso.org>, phone +49 89 320 06 433
ftp.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE [134.91.141.1]: pub/source/X11/Ygl-2.4.tar.{Z|gz} -
*Ygl 2.4 (2d GL Emulation Library for X11)*
Fred Hucht (fr...@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE)
ise.fhg.de [132.230.254.6]: pub/radiance/rshow - Radiance, *SGI interactive
previewer for RADIANCE*.
metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de [141.24.11.247] : pub/PROJECTS/GOOD0.60 -
*GOOD graphics OO project, including YART ray tracer*
Ekkehard 'Ekki' Beier <ek...@prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de>
ftp.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.12]: /pub/cgu/nurbs/nurbs.tar.Z - *Nurbs*,
/pub/cgu/ptk - Contains a PHIGS+ toolkit.
/pub/cgu/MSDL - *MSDL*
wowbagger.PC-Labor.Uni-Bremen.DE [134.102.228.9]: /pub/graphics/daVinci -
daVinci (interactive graph-visualization system) - binaries, docs,
graph examples tools for SunOS 4.1.x/Solaris 2.x.
Contact: daV...@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE
neptune.inf.ethz.ch [129.132.101.33]: XYZ - *XYZ GeoBench*
Peter Schorn <sch...@inf.ethz.ch>
ftp.univ-rennes1.fr [129.20.128.34]: /pub/Images/ASTRO/anim - Space-related
animations in QUICKTIME (Mac), MPEG, FLI (PC), ANIM (Amiga) formats,
plus software to display / convert these.
Gopher access: roland.univ-rennes1.fr [129.20.128.27], in the
directory 'Astro Gopher/anim'
Frank ROUSSEL <rous...@univ-rennes1.fr>
ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]: /pub/ms-dose/graphics/raytrace -
Moray
ftp.lifl.fr [134.206.10.27] : /pub/users/graphix/lefer/SEADS - ray tracer
using SEADS structure.
Wilfrid Lefer <le...@lifl.lifl.fr>
cast0.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.68.35]: pub/gfl/temp.tar.gz - SunOs 4.1.3 POVRay
executables.
Geraint Lewis <g...@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk>
ftp.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.10]: /pub/supported/cs/graphics - *IRIT*.
Gershon Elber <ger...@cs.technion.ac.il>
gauss.technion.ac.il [132.68.112.60]: *kaleida*
AUSTRALIA:
----------
uniwa.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.1] : /pub/povray - *POVray*, plus many
"unofficial" POV files. Currently very active.
POVRAY account <pov...@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
[ New name: ftp.uwa.edu.au ]
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.70.62]: pub - *VORT(ART) ray tracer*, *VOGLE*,
Wilson's ray tracing abstracts, /pub/contrib/artscenes (ART scenes from
Italy), pub/images/haines - Haines thesis images, Graphics Gems code,
SPD, NFF & OFF databases, NFF and OFF previewers, IRIT, OORT, plus some
8- and 24bit images and lots of other stuff. pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD*
Bernie Kirby <ber...@ecr.mu.oz.au>
munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21]: pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z - *VORT (ART) 2.1 CSG and
algebraic surface ray tracer*, *VOGLE*, /pub - DBW, pbmplus. /graphics
- room.tar.Z (ART scenes from Italy).
David Hook <d...@munnari.oz.au>
plaza.aarnet.edu.au [139.130.23.2] : mirror site of various places, including
/graphics/graphics/mirrors/ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au [134.7.1.1]: pub/graphics/bibliography/Facial_Animation,
pub/graphics/bibliography/Morph, pub/graphics/bibliography/UI -
stuff about Facial animation, Morphing and User Interfaces.
pub/fascia - Fred Parke's fascia program.
Valerie Hall <v...@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au>
katz.anu.edu.au [150.203.7.91] : /pub/stereograms - Single image random dot
(SIRDS) stereogram site.
<mic...@eccles.anu.edu.au>
merry.cs.monash.edu.au [130.194.67.101]: pub/alanf/pcad - toy CAD program
written using DEC PHIGS (version 2.1) and intended for educational
use.
Alan Finlay <al...@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>
OCEANIA - ASIA:
---------------
ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz [130.216.1.5]: architec/Applications - *VISION-3D facet
based modeller for Mac, can output RayShade files*.
architec/Textures - texture library of 200+ TIFF textures.
architec/Translators - ArchiCAD to Radiance translator.
Many other neat things for Macs. Mirrored at wuarchive.wustl.edu:
/mirrors/architec.
Paul Bourke <pdbo...@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1]: ftp2/SGI/Facial-Animation - Steve Franks
site for facial animation.
Steve Franks <ste...@csl.sony.co.jp OR ste...@cs.umr.edu>
nctuccca.edu.tw [192.83.166.10]: /PC/graphics/disp - *DISP* : An image and
animation viewer for 386PCs.
Very good archive for the Taiwanese area.
WWW sites (totally untested, I haven't diddled with XMosaic yet...):
=========
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/grad/cek/rayshade - Rayshade (pretty official)
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/cgs/rayshade/index.html - Rayshade
User's Guide
(aka http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/activity/c/cgs/lib/html/rayshade/index.html)
http://www.msi.umn.edu/miscdocs/Rayshade/index.html - Rayshade
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html - Rayshade
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/misc/rayshade/all_mach/omega/doc/Examples/
rayimages.html [or rayimgtxt.html for no icons] - Rayshade "standard"
images.
Mark Maimone <Mark.M...@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~mariusw/pov/utilities.html - POV utilities.
http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/CSIGGRAPHbib - Siggraph's Graphics online bibliography
http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk:/Ray.Tracing/ - Ian Grimstead's ray tracing bibliography
ftp://hobbes.lbl.gov/www/radiance/radiance.html - Radiance (U.S.A.)
http://topquark.cecer.army.mil/~roland/povray/povray.html - Radiance (Swiss)
http://acacia.ens.fr:8080/home/massimin/ray.ang.html - Sample images from
Rayshade, POV and Inetray
http://www.dataspace.com/WWW/vlib/comp-graphics.html - Virtual Library:
(Ray-tracing, including stereoscopic and volume rendering)
http://web.arl.mil/software/brlcad/ - BRL-CAD: (Contains several ray tracing
papers)
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/natpix/htmlnatpix.html - NatPix's home page
http://wavefront.wti.com - Wavefront
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/otfried/html/geombib.html - Computational Geometry
bibliography.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/fractal-faq/faq.html -
Fractal FAQ
http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/MSDL/MSDL-intro.html - Manchester Computing Centre,
Computer Graphics Unit
=========================================================================
4. Mail servers and graphics-oriented BBSes
===========================================
Please check first with the FTP places above, with archie's help.
Don't overuse mail servers.
There are some troubles with wrong return addresses. Many of these
mail servers have a command like
path a_valid_return_e-mail_address
to get a hint for sending back to you stuff.
DEC's FTPMAIL
-------------
Send a one-line message to ftp...@decwrl.dec.com WITHOUT a Subject: field,
and having a line containing the word 'help'.
You should get back a message detailing the relevant procedures you
must follow in order to get the files you want.
Note that the "reply" or "answer" command in your mailer will not work
for this message or any other mail you receive from FTPMAIL. To send
requests to FTPMAIL, send an original mail message, not a reply.
Complaints should be sent to the ftpmail...@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com
address rather than to postmaster, since DECWRL's postmaster is not
responsible for fixing ftpmail problems.
BITFTP
------
For BITNET sites ONLY, there's BITFTP@PUCC.
Send a one-line 'help' message to this address for more info.
RED
---
RED - Listserv Redirector is essentially a mail server.
The Server Sites that are available are:
Location EARN/BITNET Internet
-------------- ---------------- -------------------
In Turkey: TRICKLE@TREARN TRI...@EGE.EDU.TR
In Denmark: TRICKLE@DKTC11
In Italy: TRICKLE@IMIPOLI
In Belgium: TRICKLE@BANUFS11 TRI...@UFSIA.AC.BE
In Austria: TRICKLE@AWIWUW11
In Germany: TRICKLE@DS0RUS1I TRI...@RUSVM1.RUS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE
In Israel: TRICKLE@TAUNIVM TRI...@VM.TAU.AC.IL
In Netherlands: TRICKLE@HEARN TRI...@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL
In France: TRICKLE@FRMOP11 TRI...@FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR
In Colombia: TRICKLE@UNALCOL TRI...@UNALCOL.UNAL.EDU.CO
In Taiwan: TRICKLE@TWNMOE10 TRI...@TWNMOE10.EDU.TW
You are urged to use the one that is closer to your location.
Send a message to one of these containing the body
/HELP
and you'll get more instructions.
INRIA-GRAPHLIB
--------------
Pierre Jancene and Sabine Coquillart launched the inria-graphlib mail
server a few months ago.
echo help | mail inria-g...@inria.fr
will give you a quick summary of what inria-graphlib contains and
how to browse among its files.
echo send contents | mail inria-g...@inria.fr
will return the extended summary.
As another example :
echo send cgrl from Misc | mail inria-g...@inria.fr
will return the Computer Graphics Resource Listing mirrored from
comp.graphics.
An access via Gopher to inria-graphlib was added last September to
the one via e-mail.
xgopher gopher.inria.fr 71
will connect you to the inria-graphlib service. The Listing is under the
Misc directory
BBSes
=====
There are many BBSes that store datafiles, etc.etc., but a guide to these
is beyond the scope of this Listing (and the resources of the author!)
If you can point to me Internet- or mail- accessible BBSes that carry
interesting stuff, send me info!
Studio Amiga is a 3D modelling and ray tracing specific BBS, (817) 467-3658.
24 hours, 105 Meg online.
--
From Jeff Walkup <pwa...@well.sf.ca.us>:
"The Castle" 415/355-2396 (14.4K/v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis/MNP)
(In Pacifica, dang close to San Francisco, California, USA)
The new-user password is: "TAO".
[J]oin base #2; The Castle G/FX, Anim, Video, 3D S.I.G., of which
I am the SIG-Op, "Lazerus".
--
'You Can Call Me Ray' ray tracing related BBS in Chicago suburbs (708-358-5611)
or (708-358-8721)
--
Digital Pixel (Sysop: Mark Ng <mc...@descartes.waterloo.edu>)
Phone : (416) 298 1487
Storage space: 330 megs
Modem type: 14.4k baud,16.8k (Zyxel) , v32bis ,v32, mnp 5
Access Fee: none (free)
System supported : DOS, OS/2, Amiga, Mac.
Netmail: Currently no echo mail.
Topics: Raytracing, Fractals, Graphics programming, CAD, Any Comp.
Graphics related
--
From: David Tiberio <dtib...@ic.sunysb.edu>
Amiga Graphics BBS (516) 473-6351 in Long Island, New York,
running 24 hours at 14.4k v.32bis, with 157 megs on line.
We also subscribe to 9 mailing lists, of which 5 originate
from our BBS, with 3 more to be added soon. These include:
Lightwave, Imagine, Real 3D (ray tracing)
Database files include:
Imagine 3D objects, 3D renderings, scalable fonts, music
modules, sound samples, demos, animations, utilities,
text databases, and pending Lightwave 3D objects.
--
The Graphics Alternative
[ From: Adam.S...@f524.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Shiffman) ]
Name: The Graphics Alternative
Location: El Cerrito, CA
Sysop: Adam Shiffman
Node: 510-524-2780 (USR Dual v.32bis/HST 14.4k, Public Access)
Node: 510-524-2165 (Hayes Optima 288, V.FC 28.8k, Subscribers)
Node: 510-524-5081 (USR Sporster v.32bis 14.4k, Subscribers)
# Users: 2100+
TGA focuses heavily on 3D Rendering, Raytracing, Modeling, 3D Ani-
mation and Digital Imaging. The system is designed for use by both
serious amateurs and industry professionals. TGA offers a complete
suite of shareware and freeware programs, images, animations, viewers,
source code, and much more, including lots of utilities such as the
MORAY modeler for POV, the BLOB Modeler for POV/Polyray, PV3D, etc,.
TGA also offers quality messaging with complete access to PCGnet (The
Professional CAD and Graphics Network), and access to graphics related
echoes within Fidonet and Usenet News Groups. TGA also offers
Internet e-mail via a reliable UUCP gateway.
Running PCBoard 15.1 BBS software under DESQview on a 80386-40 system
with 8MB of RAM, 1.84GB of storage, and a 4-8GB 4mm DAT backup drive,
open 24 hours.
--
From: Scott Bethke <sbat...@access.digex.com>
The Intersection BBS, 410-742-5452
This BBS Is dedicated to supporting 3D Animators.The system is provided
FREE OF CHARGE, and is NOT Commercialized in ANYWAY.
Users are given FULL Access on the first call.
Features: Usenet NEWS & Internet Mail, Fidonet Echo's & Netmail,
200 Megs online, V.32bis/V.42bis Modem.
Platforms of interest: Amiga & The VideoToaster, Macintosh, Ms-Dos,
Unix Workstations (Sun, SGI, etc), Atari-ST.
--
From: Alfonso Hermida <af...@robots.gsfc.nasa.gov>:
Pi Square BBS (301)725-9080 in Maryland. It supports raytracers such as POV
and VIVID. The BBS runs off a 486/33Mhz, 100Megs hard drive and CD ROM.
Now it runs on a 14400 bps modem.
Home of POVCAD. There are 2 versions, one for DOS graphics and the other
one is for Windows. This modeler is a 3D wireframe based modeler.
The current version (for PCs) is 2.0a, while the Windows version is
3.0a.
Topics: computer graphics, PoV raytracer, Polyray raytracer,
3D modeling, POVCAD (PoV and Polyray wireframe modeler), Blob Sculptor
(blob modeler)
--
From: Lynn Falkow <ROX...@delphi.com>:
Vertech Design's GRAPHIC CONNECTION. (503) 591-8412 in Portland, Oregon.
V.32/V.42bis.
The BBS, aside from carrying typical BBS services like message bases
( all topic specific ) and files ( CAD and graphics related -- hundreds
of megabytes ), also offers material texture files that are full color,
seamlessly tiling, photo-realistic images. There are samples available
to first time callers. The BBS is a subscription system although callers
have 2 hours before they must subscribe, and there are several subscription
rates available. People interested in materials can subscribe to the
library in addition to a basic subscription rate, and can use their
purchased time to download whichever materials they wish.
--
From: bazooka%podbo...@cs.utexas.edu (Bob Anderson)
Pair O Dice BBS in Austin, Texas, USA is focused on personal computer graphics.
We keep shareware and PD graphic utilities for the Amiga, MS-Dos, Windows and
Mac user. We also have an extensive graphic collection as well as text files
and newsgroups regarding cyberart. The OTIS online art gallery is also kept
online here for those that have no Net connection.
1.512.451.4610 @ 1200 - 2400
1.512.451.7117 @ 4400 - 14.4k
24hrs, 365 days
--
From: ze...@launchprog.laafb.af.mil <Jeff Zemke>
The Graphics Emporium BBS
(310) 374-8805
600MB with on-line discussions
14.4 baud / 24hrs / 7days
'The 2D/3D graphics hub for the West'
A FirstClass(tm) BBS dedicated to 2D and 3D graphics designers. 600MB
on-line with objects, textures, applications and other graphics related
media. Free access, but please use the FirstClass client to connect.
Command line users can download the client (Mac/Windows) during first
login. A OneNet member with many gateways to Major Graphics Design
Companies. If you need a resource, it is probably here.....
==========================================================================
5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists
=============================================
Imagine
-------
Modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
send subscription requests to Imagine...@email.sp.paramax.com
send material to Ima...@email.sp.paramax.com
(Dave Wickard has substituted Steve Worley in the maintenance of
the mailing list) - PLEASE note that the unisys.com address is
NO longer valid!!!
[New mailing list from NETCOM! Includes the subscribers to the old list
that was kept from Bob Lindabury]
LightWave
----------
+ This modeling and animation package comes (usually) with NewTek's
+ Video Toaster for the Amiga.
+ To subscribe, send a mail containing the body
+
+ subscribe lightwave-l <Your_full_name>
+
+ to list...@netcom.com
+
+ Send material to light...@netcom.com
+
+ If you encounter any problems, by all means send e-mail to
+ lightwav...@netcom.com or djm...@netcom.com. This listserv
Real 3D
-------
Another modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
To subscribe, send a mail containing the body
subscribe real3d-l <Your_full_name>
Send material to rea...@gu.uwa.edu.au
Rayshade
--------
send subscription requests to rayshade...@cs.princeton.edu
send material to rayshad...@cs.princeton.edu
(Craig Kolb)
Alladin 4D for the Amiga
----------
send subscription requests to subs...@xamiga.linet.org
and in the body of the message write
#Alladin 4D username@domain
Radiance
--------
Greg Ward, the author, sends to registered (via e-mail) users digests of
his correspodence with them, notes about fixes, updates, etc.
His address is: gjw...@lbl.gov
REND386
-------
send subscription requests to rend386...@sunee.waterloo.edu
send material to ren...@sunee.waterloo.edu
PoV ray / DKB raytracers
------------------------
To subscribe, send a mail containing the body
subscribe dkb-l <Your_full_name>
to list...@trearn.bitnet
send material to dk...@trearn.bitnet
Mailing List for Massively Parallel Rendering
---------------------------------------------
send subscription requests to mp-rende...@icase.edu
send material to mp-r...@icase.edu
IBM Data Explorer SciVi package
-------------------------------
send material to data...@watson.ibm.com (??)
Wavefront
---------
High end 3D modelling/animation/rendering for Unix machines.
send subscription requests to LIST...@PSUVM.CAC.PSU.EDU with
a *body* of:
// JOB
subscribe wavefr-l <yournamehere>
// EOJ
And you'll get a message (hopefully) that gives you more instructions
For Usenet folks, the comp.soft-sys.wavefront newsgroup has just created.
Terrain Rendering
-----------------
List for discussion of terrain rendering techniques.
Send your subscription requests to:
heightfi...@monet.seas.gwu.edu.
VOGLE / VOGL
------------
send subscription requests to vogle-...@ecr.mu.oz.au
send material to vo...@ecr.mu.oz.au
+POVGUI
+------
+ There is a new mailing list for the development of a GUI for POV.
+
+ POVG...@VM3090.EGE.EDU.TR (aka POVG...@TREARN.BITNET)
+
+ to subscribe, send mail to LIST...@VM3090.EGE.EDU.TR with a line
+
+ SUBSCRIBE POVGUI-L Full Name
==========================================================================
6. Scene description languages
==============================
NFF
---
Neutral file format , by Eric Haines. Very simple, there are some
procedural database generators in the SPD package, and many objects
floating in various FTP sites. There's also a previewer written in
HP Starbase from E.Haines. Also there's one written in VOGLE, so you can
use any of the devices VOGLE can output on.
(Check in sites carrying VOGLE, like gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au)
OFF
---
Object file format, from DEC's Randy Rost (ro...@kpc.com).
[ The object archive server seems to be mothballed. In a future version,
I'll remove the ref. to it -- nfotis ]
Available also through their mail server. To obtain help about using this
service, send a message with a "Subject:" line containing only the word
"help" and a null message body to: object-arc...@decwrl.dec.com.
[For FTP places to get it, see in the relevant place]. There's an OFF
previewer for SGI 4D machines, called off-preview in
godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au . There are previewers for xview and sunview,
also on gondwana.
TDDD
----
It's a library of 3D objects with translators to/from OFF, NFF,
Rayshade, Imagine or vort objects.
Edited copy of the announcement follows (from Raytracing News, V4,#3):
New Library of 3D Objects Available via FTP, by Steve Worley
(wor...@cup.portal.com)
I have assembled a set of over 150 3D objects in a binary format
called TDDD. These objects range from human figures to airplanes,
from semi-trucks to lampposts. These objects are all freely
distributable, and most have READMEs that describe them.
In order to convert these objects to a human-readable format, a file
with the specification of TDDD is included in the directory with the
objects. There is also a shareware system called TTDDDLIB (officially
on hubcap.clemson.edu) that will convert (ala PBM+) to/from various
object formats : Imagine TTDDD (extension of TDDD?), OFF, NFF,
Rayshade 4.0, or vort. Source included for Amiga/Unix as executables
for the Amiga. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric views
in Postscript.
P3D
---
From Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The P3D uses lisp with slight
extensions to store three-dimensional models. A simple lisp
interpreter is included with the P3D release, so there is no need to
have access to any vendor's lisp to run this software.
The mouse-driven user interfaces for Motif, Open Look, and Silicon
Graphics GL, and the DrawP3D subroutine library for generating P3D
without ever looking at the underlying Lisp.
The P3D software currently supports nine renderers. They are:
Painter - Painter's Algorithm, Dore, Silicon Graphics Inc. GL language,
Generic Phigs, Sun Phigs+, DEC Phigs+, Rayshade, ART ray tracer (from
VORT package) and Pixar RenderMan.
The code is available via anonymous FTP from the machines
ftp.psc.edu, directory pub/p3d, and nic.funet.fi, directory
pub/graphics/programs/p3d.
RenderMan
---------
Pixar's RenderMan is not free - call Pixar for details.
==========================================================================
7. Solids description formats
=============================
a. EEC's ESPRIT project 322 CAD*I (CAD Interfaces) has developed a
neutral file format for transfer of CAD data (curves, surfaces, and
solid models between CAD systems and from CAD to CAA (Computer Aided
Analysis) an CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)
#b. IGES [v. 5.2 now] tries to define a standard to tranfer solid
models - Brep and CSG. The current standard number is ANSI Y14.26M-1987
For documentation, you might want to contact Nancy Flower at
# NCGA Technical Services and Standards, 1-800-225-6242 ext. 308.
# and the cost is $300 [$100 for 5.1], plus S&H.
This standard is not available in electronic format.
c. PDES/STEP : This slowly emerging standard tries to encompass not only
the geometrical information, but also for things like FEM, etc.
The main bodies besides this standard are NIST and DARPA. You can get
more information about PDES by sending mail to npts...@cme.nist.gov
and putting the line
send index
in the body (NOT the Subject:) area of the message.
The people at Rutherford Appleton Lab. are also working
on STEP tools: they have an EXPRESS compiler and an Exchange file parser,
both available in source form (and for free) for research purposes.
Soon they will also have an EXPRESS-based database system.
For the tools contact Mike Mead, Phone: +44 (0235) 44 6710 (FAX: x 5893),
e-mail: m...@inf.rl.ac.uk or {...!}mcsun!uknet!rlinf!mm or
mm%inf.rl...@NSFnet-relay.ac.uk
==========================================================================
End of Part 1 of the Resource Listing
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Nick (Nikolaos) Fotis National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
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