Computer Graphics and Digital Video

Rendering, Modeling, and Animation

• Photon Mapping
• Photon Mapped Caustics etc
• Metaballs..
• Wotsit's Format (file formats page)
• MindsEye GNU 3-D Editor Project
• VRPN - VR Peripheral Network
• Flight Gear simulator
• My raytracing pages
• The Motif Zone
• Mesa OpenGL Library
• Neat OpenGL demos by Nate Robins
• Java OpenGL Bindings
• ICASE PGL (Parallel Graphics Library)
• AC3D Modeler for X11
• Atmosphereic Effects
• Ray+Photon tracing for rendering caustics
• Stochastic rendering of caustics, gaseous phenomina
• Dispersion, Unlimited Light, and other Ray Tracing Mods..
• GX/Generic Ray Tracers etc
• Radiosity page a LedaLite
• Francine Evans' STRIPE code
• radbib97.bib
• USGS GeoData WWW Page
• BMRT Renderer
• comp.graphics.renderman FAQ
• The RenderMan 3.1 Specification
• A Hardware Ray Tracing Chip -- ART Inc.
• ACM Graphics Software Tools Page
• Ray Tracing News (hosted at www.povray.org)
• Ray Tracing News (from Stanford)
• SPD distribution from ACM
• Stephen Chenney's SCED Constraint Based Scene Editor
• SpaceBall 6DOF 3-D input devices
• BOIDS behavioural animation of artificial life
• DIVE -- VRML Browser for Sun, Linux, SGI, HP
• The 3-D Engines List
• SKETCH: An interface for sketching 3D scenes
• UMR ACM DiRT project

Digital Video, MPEG, MJPEG

• www.mpeg.org - Grand MPEG site
• Heuris MPEG Encoding
• Advanced Television Systems Committee
• The JAVA inline MPEG-1 player
• OMF - Open Media Framework Developer's site
• AVI conversion info

Image processing, Digital Cameras, etc

• The new XV WWW site
• Casio "QV10" digital camera code, and misc GPS programming info
• Info on digital cameras (programming etc)
• Pricing and specs on digital cameras

Other link pages

• CGSD Corp

Places:

• Brown Computer Graphics Group
• CalTech
• Cornell Program of Computer Graphics
• Cornell Theory Center
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the U. of Illinois
• The Geometry Center at U. of Minnesota
• Graphics Visualization and Usability Center at Georgia Tech
• Indiana University - CICA
• Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
• NCSA
• U. Calgary
• U. of British Columbia
• U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• U. of Manchester Computer Graphics Unit
• U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• U. of Pennsylvania
• U. of Utah
• U. of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab
• Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory

Libraries and toolkits:

• OpenGL
• Mesa
• Manchester NURBS library
• Manchester PHIGS Toolkit
• Manchester Scene Description Language

Software:

• FAST
• NCSA Software Tools
• pV3
• Radiance
• Rayshade
• Utah Raster Toolkit

Scientific Visualization:

• Beckman Institute Visualization Facility
• CRS4 SciVis Group
• Anotated Sci. Vis. Weblet Bibliography (very good)
• MIT Aero/Astro Sci. Vis.
• Rutgers VIZLAB

Companies:

• SGI Silicon Surf
• SGI Meta-Page at Georgia Tech
• Sun
• HP
• Wavefront

Miscellaneous:

• ACM SIGGRAPH
• Grafica Obscura
• Ray Tracing Bibliography
• Computer Graphics Bibliography
• WWW Virtual Library: Computer Graphics and Visualization

Other Graphics Pages:

• Randy Carpenter's Graphics Meta Page
• A Big CG Meta Page