Ray Tracing Links
- Raytracing-FAQ Home of the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing-faq with a HTML online version.
- ACM Crossroads: Ray Tracing Article on Ray Tracing in the student magazine of the ACM.
- Light in C++ The object-oriented raytracer which can raytrace general relativistic sunsets in dispersive media.
- Illuminatus A ray tracer written in Java.
- Introduction to Ray Tracing The introduce of ray tracing. Also known as ray casting, determines the visibility of surfaces by tracing imaginary rays of light from the viewer's eye to the objects in the scene.
- YASRT Raytracer A simple raytracer in development, it supports the basic features of a raytracer along with multi-threading. Many platforms are supported (Win32, Linux and iPAQ).
- Renderpark RenderPark is a test bed for rendering algorithms, very good and comprehensive.
- Internet Raytracing Competition Regular awards for best raytraced still images and animations submitted by the public. Site includes most recent winners, voting on the current round, and the topic and rules for submitting to the next round.
- Polyray Welcome to the Polyray download page.
- Wilbur Wilbur allows an individual to play with terrain data (height fields). It can import data from and export data to many popular file formats. In addition, it allows the data to be modified wth a number of image processing operations as well as height field painting tools.
- Raytressi Ray tracer program, free source code + documentation, works under all Unix and Windows platforms, code in c++.
- RenderBoy An integrated object based 3D Boolean solid modeler and photo-realistic "ray-tracing" rendering software. Create photo-realistic 3D graphics in an intuitive (WYSIWYG) point and click fashion. Mac OS 7.0 or newer is required.
- Nick Chirkov Ray tracing, Monte-Carlo Global Illumination, real-time ray tracing.
- Ray Tracing News Guide Lots of information on ray tracing. Updated once or twice a year.
- Radiance A raytracer that can simulate diffusely scattered light in a physically accurate way.
- Visual Magic Visual Magic Magazine is committed to producing reviews that are honest, accurate, detailed, and that actually do the product justice.
- vlib An OpenSource volume modeling and rendering API. The interface facilitates the majority of significant developments in the field to date.
- 0-SniperGfx-0 Creatrs of stunning 3D Gfx for any purpose, Web Gfx, Cinema, Television or Game Gfx.
- Ray Tracing Abstracts Over 300 abstracts from ray tracing related papers and books.
- Laurens Lapre's Webpages Home of the incredible Lparser, the program reads a Lsystem description and processes it into a 3d form which can then be outputted in several formats, including VRML, DXF and POV.
- AGM3d Incorporated A commercial library that provides fast and accurate intersection calculations between ray and surfaces, or general geometry models from CAD, CAE, CAM graphics.
- Bob's Digital Imagery A small graphics company. Ready to do small jobs that do not require fast turn-around.
- Rayshade An extensible system for creating ray-traced images. It is written in C, yacc, and lex, and runs on many different platforms.
- Raytracing Links Many good Raytrace links.
- ASCA Raytrace Simulation trace_asca is an ASCA simulator written in C++, with some C and Fortran libraries linked in as well. The raytracing is based on Pete Serlemitsos' IDL raytrace routine trace2.pro. A compiled exectuable is availble for DEC Alphas
- Ray Dreamers Forum A Community for 3d Artists, Animators, Model Creators and Technical Developers.
- A Ray Tracing Accelerator Based on a Hierarchy of 1D Sorted Lists "Since the introduction of ray tracing as a rendering technique, several approaches have been proposed to reduce the number of ray/object tests. This paper presents yet another such approach based on a hierarchy of 1D sorted lists." Available in PostScript format. By Alain Fournier and Pierre Poulin.
- SART Program is a guile library for raytracing and high-complexity 3d modeling. Used to create and render extremely complex images (such as 3D fractals, CSGs and splines), powerful procedural textures and even mixes rendering techniques (using Z buffering, raytracing and radiosity where appropriate, in a single image).
- Lightflow Rendering Interface An object oriented programming interface to synthetic rendering, which provides a common environment and description language to treat light distribution in three dimensional spaces.
- Dave's Graphics Resource Center A one stop reference for digital graphics users.
- Homepage of Arndt von Koenigsmarck Includes a 3D gallery, a discussion board and chat. Information about 3D related books. Free workshops and models.
- Chuck's Raytracing Software Personal page with 240+ Ray tracing links to programs for modeling, Ray tracing, converting, and animating. Plus models for Moray, POV, meshes, and others.
- Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions.
- Ray Tracing and Graphics Extensions Contains pointers to some supplemental material for the article Ray Tracing and Graphics Extensions [Maeder94e].
- AGRAPHA Productions Provides visual effects services to the film, television, and multimedia industries.
- Highsider Raytracing with Cinema 4D.
- Architexture material editor Architexture is a POV material editor for Windows 9x. It supports pigments, normals, finishes, color maps, interior or media, normal maps, density maps, and even fog.
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