|
Links
Projection systems and stereoscopy
Paul Bourke's website
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/
Paul Bourke's website contains a lot of information about projection systems and stereoscopy. Material from this site is used in Chapters 11 and 12.
iCinema
http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au/projects/infra_avie.html
The iCinema site has information about a state-of-the-art immersive visualization system at the University of New South Wales.
Mirage device
Mirage
http://www.optigone.com
Opti-Gone International manufacture the Mirage 2000© device discussed in Chapter 24. This site has many useful links.
Light probes
http://www.debevec.org/Probes
Paul Debevec's light probes site has the image in Figure 29.17. This image is used in Chapters 11, 22, 24, 25, and 29. There is a large amount of information on this site about light probes.
http://www.debevec.org/
See Debevec's home page and it's links for much information about high dynamic range imaging.
Sky and planetary images
http://planetpixelemporium.com/planets.html
James Hastings-Trew's Planet Pixel Emporium site has images of the Earth, the moon, and other planets. Earth images are used in Chapters 20 and 31.
http://www.philohome.com
Phillipe Hurbain's website has sky images, one of which was used in Chapters 11, 12, and 24.
http://www.lfgrafix.com
Lopez-Fabrega Design has a number of sky images, and other graphics resources, including HDR backgrounds. Two of the sky images are shown in Figure 29.27.
PLY files
http://www.cyberware.com
Cyberware have the Isis and Ganesh PLY models rendered in the Chapter 23 page one image. There are other PLY models on this site.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/large_models/index.html
The Georgia Institute of Technology Large Geometric Models Archive has a number of PLY models, including the Stanford bunny, the horse, and the dragon. It also has Greg Turk's PLY file code, some of which is included in the Grid class.
http://graphics.stanford.edu
The Stanford University Computer Graphics Laboratory has the dragon, Stanford bunny, and other PLY models.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/
Greg Turk's website has a list of sites that have polygon models.
Skeleton ray tracers
http://www.wxwidgets.org
The skeleton ray tracers were developed with the wxWidgets Framework.
http://www.eclipse.org
The Eclipse IDE was used for the Linux versions of the skeleton ray tracers.
Ray tracing news
http://tog.acm.org/resources/RTNews/html The Ray Tracing News Guide edited by Erik Haines has a huge amount of information about ray tracing.
Free ray tracer
http://www.povray.org
POV-Ray has been under development for many years.
Commercial ray tracers
http://www.splutterfish.com
http://www.finalrender.com
http://www.mentalimages.com
http://www.maxwellrender.com
http://www.maxon.net
Courses on ray tracing
Stanford University
https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/#cs348b
http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348b-competition/
The Stanford University rendering competition archive for CS348B is well worth checking out. This has ray traced student images for every year from 1992.
University of California San Diego
http://graphics.ucsd.edu/courses/cse168_s07 This course also has a rendering competition. |
Home Table of Contents Gallery Sample ChapterDownloads Courses Errata Contact Mailing List Web Slaves 
