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- Arts/ Visual Arts/ Computer Graphics/ 3D@ (504)
- Computers/ Software/ Graphics/ 3D/ Animation and Design Tools/ POV_Ray@ (72)
- Computers/ Software/ Operating Systems/ Mac OS/ Graphics/ Ray_Tracing@ (4)
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- 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.
cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/Dienst/UI/1.0/Download/ncstrl.ubc_cs/TR-92-37
- ACM Crossroads: Ray Tracing - Article on Ray Tracing in the student magazine of the ACM.
www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-4/raytracing.html
- AGRAPHA Productions - Provides visual effects services to the film, television, and multimedia industries.
www.cinenet.net/~agrapha
- 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.
sourceforge.net/projects/ute
- 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 available for DEC Alphas.
lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/~ptak/trace2
- Brassman's Modeller And Animation Links - Links to modelling utilities, many for POV for Windows.
www-personal.umich.edu/~jeffab/links/modellinks.html
- Chem Plus - A suite of extensions for the HyperChem chemical modeller.
www.tsd-projects.it/_english/ric_chemplus.htm
- 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.
www.geocities.com/csroberts/index.html
- Digital Carvers Guild - Freeware and commercial 3D extensions.
digitalcarversguild.com
- FuzzyPhoton - The Raytracing Repository - Information about raytracing in general, with a how-to section and an A-Z reference. Technical articles and a gallery of the VRWorld4 raytracer, and humour.
fuzzyphoton.tripod.com
- Highsider - Raytracing with Cinema 4D.
www.highsider.de
- Illuminatus - A ray tracer written in Java.
www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3rebas/creative/illuminatus.html
- 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.
www.irtc.org
- 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.
www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/multimedia/nsfmmedia/cware/graphics/notes/vsdet/vsray/vsray00.html
- Kray - Free beta raytracer. Product details, downloads, gallery, and tutorial using the software.
www.kray.prv.pl
- 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.
www.xs4all.nl/~ljlapre
- Light in C++ - The object-oriented raytracer which can raytrace general relativistic sunsets in dispersive media.
www.photon.at/~werner/light
- 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.
www.lightflowtech.com
- Nick Chirkov - Ray tracing, Monte-Carlo Global Illumination, real-time ray tracing.
www.geocities.com/nickchir
- Polyray - Welcome to the Polyray download page.
pages.infinit.net/gollum/polyray/poly1.htm
- Radiance - A raytracer that can simulate diffusely scattered light in a physically accurate way.
radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html
- Ray Dreamers Forum - A Community for 3d Artists, Animators, Model Creators and Technical Developers.
www.iguanasoft.com/poser/rd.htm
- Ray Tracing and Graphics Extensions - Contains pointers to some supplemental material for the article Ray Tracing and Graphics Extensions [Maeder94e].
www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/ray/index.html
- Ray Tracing News Guide - Lots of information on ray tracing. Updated once or twice a year.
www.acm.org/tog/resources/RTNews/html
- RayChase - Fast random recursive raytracer that will render cool images all by itself and will display them on the desktop. Tested on KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, et cetera. One can also write the output to an image file (interactively updating web pages). Versions exist for FreeBSD, MSDOG, WinNT, Win9x, OS/2 and PowerPC.
cluclo.sourceforge.net/raychase
- Rayshade - An extensible system for creating ray-traced images. It is written in C, yacc, and lex, and runs on many different platforms.
graphics.stanford.edu/~cek/rayshade
- RayTraccio - A Java ray-tracer that wants to be simple and clean but nonetheless has some advanced features.
www.lapo.it/RayTraccio.html
- Raytracing Links - Many good Raytrace links.
www.math.berkeley.edu/~jlevenbe/raytrace.html
- Raytracing-FAQ - Home of the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing-faq with a HTML online version.
localhost.ruhr.de/~kniebes/rayfaq
- Raytressi - Ray tracer program [actually a library, ed.], free source code + documentation, works under all Unix and Windows platforms, code in c++.
raytressi.free.fr
- Realstorm - A realtime raytracing engine with downloadable benchmark, screenshots and information.
www.realtimeraytrace.de
- RenderBoy - An integrated object based 3D Boolean solid modeler and photo-realistic "ray-tracing" rendering software. Mac OS 7.0 or newer is required.
www.render-boy.com
- Renderpark - Test bed for rendering algorithms.
www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cwis/research/graphics/RENDERPARK
- VirtuaLight - A standalone rendering engine that allows previewing and photorealistic rendering of 3D scenes.
www.3dvirtualight.com
- Visual Magic - Web based magazines devoted to 3D animation and visual effects. Feature articles, software reviews, and masterclasses.
visualmagic.awn.com/nov98/main.html
- vlib - An OpenSource volume modeling and rendering API. The interface facilitates the majority of significant developments in the field to date.
cs-vlib.swan.ac.uk/index.htm
- VRay - Advanced beta raytracing system, supports subsurface scattering, all the standard 3D Studio MAX materials, environments and atmospheres filters.
www.chaoticdimension.com/vray
- 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 with a number of image processing operations as well as height field painting tools.
www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/software.html
- 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).
www.yasrt.org
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