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Subject: (20 Jan 93) Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY [part 1/3]
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Computer Graphics Resource Listing : WEEKLY POSTING [ PART 1/3 ]
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Last Change : 19 January 1993

[ I HOPE THAT THIS MAKES IT OUT TO THE WORLD! WE HAD BIG TROUBLES DUE
 TO IMPROPER CONFIGURATION(S), BUT I'M JUST AN ORDINARY USER, SO DON'T
 BLAME ME, PLEASE!! N. FOTIS ]


Items Changed:
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Please review this Listing from the start - I've added much stuff the
last weeks!

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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 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: [e-mail]

Please contact me for updates,corrections, etc.

Disclaimer: I do not guarantee the accuracy of this document.
Use it at your own risk.

========================================================================

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 <[e-mail]> 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
================================

PART1:
------
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.  3D graphics editors
   a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
   b. Commercial systems
7. Scene description languages
8. Solids description formats
9. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
10. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data.

PART2:
------
11. Background imagery/textures/datafiles
12. Introduction to rendering algorithms
   a. Ray tracing
   b. Z-buffer (depth-buffer)
   c. Others
13. Where can I find the geometric data for the:
   a. Teapot ?
   b. Space Shuttle ?
14. Plotting packages
15. Image analysis software - Image processing and display
16. Image annotation software

PART3:
------
17. Scientific visualization stuff
18. Molecular visualization stuff
19. GIS (Geographical Information Systems software)

Future additions:
[Please send me updates/info!]

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0. Places to find the Resource Listing
======================================

This file is crossposted to comp.graphics and news.answers, so if you
can't locate it in comp.graphics, you're advised to search in news.answers
(The latter group usually is 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)

pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]:  /pub/usenet/news.answers - the land of
        FAQs.  graphics and pictures directories of particular interest.
        [Also available from [e-mail] by sending a mail
        message containing: help]

The inria-graphlib mail server mirrors this posting (see under the
Subject 4: Mail servers )

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.

Another place that monitors the Listing is the MaasInfo files.
For more info contact Robert E. Maas <[e-mail]>

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:
   [e-mail]
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
=========

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.mcgill.ca or 132.206.2.3         (Canada)
  archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100  (Finland/Eur.)
  archie.au or 139.130.4.6             (Aussie/NZ)
  cs.huji.ac.il or 132.65.6.5             (Israel)
  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])

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
========
(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.

==========================================================================

3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
==================================================

Computer graphics related FTP sites (and maintainers), 08/01/93
    compiled by Eric Haines, [e-mail]
    and Nick Fotis, [e-mail]

Ray-tracers:
------------

RayShade - a great ray tracer for workstations on up, also for PC, Mac & Amiga.
PoV - son and successor to DKB trace, written by Compuservers.
    (For more questions call Drew Wells --
    [e-mail] or Dave Buck -- [e-mail])
ART - ray tracer with a good range of surface types, part of VORT package.
DKBtrace - another good ray tracer, from all reports; PCs, Mac II,
    Amiga, UNIX, VMS (last two with X11 previewer), etc.
RTrace - Portugese ray tracer, does bicubic patches, CSG, 3D text, etc. etc.
    An MS-DOS version for use with DJGPP DOS extender (GO32) exists also,
    as a Mac port.
VIVID2 - A shareware raytracer for PCs - binary only (286/287).  Author:
    Stephen Coy ([e-mail]).  The 386/387 (no source) version
    is available to registered users (US$50) direct from the author.
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 ) .
MTV,QRT,DBW - yet more ray tracers, some with interesting features.

Distributed/Parallel Raytracers:
--------------------------------

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 ([e-mail])
prt, VM_pRAY - parallel ray tracers.

Volume renderers:
-----------------

VREND - Cornell's Volume Renderer, from Kartch/Devine/Caffey/Warren (FORTRAN).

Radiosity (and diffuse lighting) renderers:
-------------------------------------------

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).
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 <[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>

Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries:
-----------------------------------------------------------

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.

VOGLE - graphics learning environment (device portable).
VOGL - an SGI GL-like library based on VOGLE.
REND386 - A *fast* polygon renderer for Intel 386s and up. Version 2 on up.
    [ It's not photorealistic, but rather a real-time renderer]
XSHARP21 - Dr. Dobb's Journal PC renderer source code, with budget texture
    mapping.

Modellers, wireframe viewers:
-----------------------------

VISION-3D - Mac modeler, can output Radiance & Rayshade files.
IRIT - A CSG solid modeler, with support for freeform surfaces.
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

Geometric viewers:
------------------

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.
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:
-------------------------------------------

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.
TTDDDLIB - 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 <[e-mail]>
    [Note : TTDDDLIB is also known as T3DLIB]
CHVRTD - Chapel Hill Volume Rendering Test Datasets, includes volume sets for
    two heads, a brain, a knee, electron density maps for RNA and others.

Written Material on Rendering:
------------------------------

RT News - collections of articles on ray tracing.
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.
RT abstracts - collection by Tom Wilson of abstracts of many RT articles.
Paper bank project - various technical papers in electronic form.  Contact
    Juhana Kouhia <[e-mail]>

Image Manipulation Libraries:
-----------------------------

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.  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.
xflick - Plays .FLI animation under X11
XAnim - plays any resolution FLI along with GIF's(including GIF89a animation
    extensions), DL's and Amiga IFF animations(3,5,J,l) and IFF
    pictures(including HAM,EHB and color cycling)
SDSC - SDSC Image Tools package (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
    for image manipulation and conversion


Libraries with code for graphics:
---------------------------------

Graphics Gems I,II,III - 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: [e-mail]

(*) means site is an "official" distributor, so is most up to date.


NORTH AMERICA (please look for things on your own continent first...):
-------------

wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]:  /graphics/graphics - get CONTENTS file
    for a roadmap.  /graphics/graphics/objects/TDDD - *the TTDDD objects
    and converters*, /mirrors/unix-c/graphics - Rayshade ray tracer, MTV
    ray tracer, Vort ray tracer, FBM, PBMPLUS, popi, Utah raster toolkit.
    /mirrors/msdos/graphics - DKB ray tracer, FLI RayTracker demos.
    /pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD*, /graphics/graphics/radiosity - Radiance
    and Indian radiosity package.  /msdos/ddjmag/ddj9209.zip - version 21
    of Xsharp, with fast texture mapping.  There's lots more, including
    bibs, Graphics Gems I & II code, OFF, RTN, Radiance, NFF, SIPP, spline
    patch intersection routines, textbook errata, source code from Roy
    Hall's book "Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery", etc
    graphics/graphics/packages/kaleido - *kaleido*
    George Kyriazis <[e-mail]>

princeton.edu [128.112.128.1]:  /pub/Graphics (note capital "G") - *Rayshade
    4.0 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, II & III code*.
    /pub/graphics directory - *SALEM* and other stuff.
    Craig Kolb <[e-mail]>
    [replaces weedeater.math.yale.edu - note the capital "G" in
    pub/Graphics] Because there's a trouble with princeton's incoming
    area, you can upload Rayshade-specific stuff to
    weedeater.math.yale.edu [128.36.23.17]

alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]:  /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer*,
    /pub/pov-ray/POV-Ray1.0 - *PVRay Compuserve group ray tracer (or PoV)*.
    David Buck <[e-mail]>

avalon.chinalake.navy.mil [129.131.31.11]:  3D objects (multiple formats),
    utilities, file format documents.
    This site was created to be a 3D object "repository" for the net.
    Francisco X DeJesus <[e-mail]>

omicron.cs.unc.edu [152.2.128.159]:  pub/softlab/CHVRTD - Chapel Hill
    Volume Rendering Test Datasets.

ftp.mv.com [192.80.84.1]: - Official DDJ FTP repository.
    *XSHARP*

peipa.essex.ac.uk [155.245.115.161]: the Pilot European Image Processing
    Archive; in a directory ipa/synth or something like that, there are
    image synthesis packages.
    Adrian Clarke <[e-mail]>

barkley.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.142.237] : tcl/extensions/tsipp3.0a.tar.Z -
    *Tcl-SIPP*
    Mark Diekhans <[e-mail] or [e-mail]>

acs.cps.msu.edu [35.8.56.90]: pub/sass - *X window fonts converter into
    Rayshade 3.0 polygons*, Rayshade animation tool(s).
    Ron Sass <[e-mail]>

hobbes.lbl.gov [128.3.12.38]: *Radiance* ray trace/radiosity package.
    Greg Ward <[e-mail]>

geom.umn.edu [128.101.25.31] : pub/geomview - *GEOMVIEW*
    Contact (for GEOMVIEW): [e-mail]

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33] : programs/hollasch-4d - RAY4,
    SGI Explorer modules and Postscript manual, etc.

zamenhof.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.75] : pub/graphics.formats - Various electronic
    documents about many object and image formats.
    Mark Hall <[e-mail]>
    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.
    Quincey Koziol <[e-mail]>

tucana.noao.edu [140.252.1.1] : /iraf - the IRAF astronomy package

ftp.ipl.rpi.edu [128.113.14.50]:  sigma/erich - SPD images and Haines thesis
    images.  pub/images - various 24 and 8 bit image stills and sequences.
    Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>

ftp.psc.edu [128.182.66.148]:  pub/p3d - p3d_2_0.tar P3D lispy scene
    language & renderers.  Joel Welling <[e-mail]>

ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*, RayShade data files.
    Jef Poskanzer <[e-mail]>

george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93]: pub/ccs-lib/ccs.tar.Z - *CCS (Complex
    Conversion System), a standard software interface for image processing*

hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16]: /pub/graphics/Comp.graphics - best of
    comp.graphics (very extensive), ray-tracers - DBW, MTV, QRT, and more.
    Joe Dellinger <[e-mail]>

ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.2]:  /graphics - *IRIT*, RT News back issues (not
    complete), NURBS models, other graphics related material.
    /graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v?.tar.Z - Independent JPEG Group package for
    reading and writing JPEG files.

freebie.engin.umich.edu [141.212.68.23]:  *Utah Raster Toolkit*,
    Spencer Thomas <[e-mail]>

export.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.0.12] : /contrib - pbmplus, Image Magick, xloadimage,
    xli, xv, Img, lots more.  /pub/R5untarred/mit/demos/gpc - NCGA Graphics
    Performance Characterization (GPC) Suite.

life.pawl.rpi.edu [128.113.10.2]: /pub/ray - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*.
    George Kyriazis <[e-mail]>

cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - Utah raster toolkit, *NURBS databases*.
    Jamie Painter <[e-mail]>

gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]:  /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*,
    /pub/misc/graf-bib - *graphics bibliographies (incomplete)* [new
    bibliography currently under construction by siggraph.org] Also GPC
    Benchmark files (planned, but not checked).
    Randi Rost <[e-mail]>

hubcap.clemson.edu [130.127.8.1]:  /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine - stuff for the
    Amiga Imagine & Turbo Silver ray tracers.  /pub/amiga/TTDDDLIB -
    *TTDDDLIB* /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine/objects - MANY objects.
    Glenn Lewis <[e-mail]>

pprg.eece.unm.edu [129.24.24.10]:  /pub/khoros - *Khoros image processing
    package (huge, but great)*.
    Danielle Argiro <[e-mail]>

expo.lcs.mit.edu [18.30.0.212]:  contrib - *PBMPLUS portable bitmap package*,
    *poskbitmaptars bitmap collection*, *Raveling Img*, xloadimage.  Jef
    Poskanzer <[e-mail]>

venera.isi.edu [128.9.0.32]:  */pub/Img.tar.z and img.tar.z - some image
    manipulation*, /pub/images - RGB separation photos.
    Paul Raveling <[e-mail]>

ucsd.edu [128.54.16.1]:  /graphics - utah rle toolkit, pbmplus, fbm,
    databases, MTV, DBW and other ray tracers, world map, other stuff.
    Not updated much recently.

castlab.engr.wisc.edu [128.104.52.10]:  /pub/x3d.2.2.tar.Z - *X3D*
    /pub/xdart.1.1.* - *XDART*
    Mark Spychalla <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
    [supercedes okeeffe.berkeley.edu for the LIBTIFF stuff]

surya.waterloo.edu [129.97.129.72]: /graphics - FBM, ray tracers

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.  /images - various test images.
    A texture library has also begun here.
    Lee A. Butler <[e-mail]>

cicero.cs.umass.edu [128.119.40.189]:  /texture_temp - 512x512 grayscale
    Brodatz textures,
    from Julien Flack <[e-mail]>.

karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.7.6]:  pub/Graphics/rtabs.shar.12.90.Z - *Wilson's
    RT abstracts*, VM_pRAY.
    J. Eric Townsend <[e-mail] or [e-mail]>

ftp.pitt.edu [130.49.253.1]:  /users/qralston/images - 24 bit image archive
    (small).  James Ralston Crawford <[e-mail]>

ftp.tc.cornell.edu [128.84.201.1]: /pub/vis - *VREND*

sunee.waterloo.edu [129.97.128.196]: /pub/raytracers - vivid, *REND386*
    [or sunee.uwaterloo.ca]

archive.umich.edu [141.211.164.153]: /msdos/graphics - PC graphics stuff.
    /msdos/graphics/raytrace - VIVID2.

zug.csmil.umich.edu [141.211.184.2]: X-Xpecs 3D files (an LCD glass shutter
    for Amiga computers - great for VR stuff!)

apple.apple.com [130.43.2.2?]:  /pub/ArchiveVol2/prt.

research.att.com [192.20.225.2]: /netlib/graphics - *SPD package*, ~/polyhedra -
    *polyhedra databases*.  (If you don't have FTP, use the netlib
    automatic mail replier:  UUCP - research!netlib, Internet -
    [e-mail].  Send one line message "send index" for more info,
    "send haines from graphics" to get the SPD)

siggraph.org [128.248.245.250]: SIGGRAPH archive site.
    Automatic mailer is [e-mail] ("send index").

ftp.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159]: pub/reaction_diffusion - Greg Turk's work on
    reaction-diffusion textures, X windows code (SIGGRAPH '91)

avs.ncsc.org [128.109.178.23]:  ~ftp/VolVis92 - Volume datasets from the
    Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization '92.  This site is also the
    International AVS Center.
    Terry Myerson <[e-mail]>

uvacs.cs.virginia.edu [128.143.8.100]:  pub/suit/demo/{sparc,dec,etc} - SUIT
    (Simple User Interface Toolkit).  "finger [e-mail]"
    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 will be changed to ftp.yorku.ca in the near future]

milton.u.washington.edu [128.95.136.1] - ~ftp/public/veos - VEOS Virtual
    Reality and distributed applications prototyping environment
    for Unix. Veos Software Support : [e-mail]
    Also, much other Virtual Reality stuff.

sugrfx.acs.syr.edu [128.230.24.1]: Various stereo-pair images.
[ Has closed down :-( ]

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 <[e-mail]>

archive.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.52]: pub/siggraph92 - Code for
    Siggraph '92 Course 23 (Procedural Modeling and Rendering Techniques)
    Dr. David S. Ebert <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

cod.nosc.mil [128.49.16.5]: /pub/grid.{ps,tex,ascii} - a short survey of
    methods to interpolate and contour bivariate data

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.

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).  Colby Kraybill
    <[e-mail]>.

pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]:  /pub/usenet/news.answers - the land of
    FAQs.  graphics and pictures directories of particular interest.
    [Also available from [e-mail] by sending a mail
    message containing: help]

UUCP archive: avatar - RT News back issues.  For details, write Kory Hamzeh
    <[e-mail]>


EUROPE:
-------

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*, pub/misc/CIA_WorldMap - CIA world data bank,
    comp.graphics.research archive, *India*, and much, much more.
    Juhana Kouhia <[e-mail]>

dasun2.epfl.ch [128.178.62.2]:  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 <[e-mail]>

irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]:  */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD
    NFF format scenes, RayShade data files.  Didier Badouel
    <[e-mail]> [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
    <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 ([e-mail])

vega.hut.fi [128.214.3.82]: /graphics - RTN archive, ray tracers (MTV, QRT,
    others), NFF, some models.

sun4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]: /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV, etc

maeglin.mt.luth.se [130.240.0.25]:  graphics/raytracing - prt, others, ~/Doc -
    *Wilson's RT abstracts*, Vivid.

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 <[e-mail]>

maggia.ethz.ch [129.132.17.1]: pub/inetray - *Inetray* and Sun RPC 4.0 code
    Andreas Thurnherr <[e-mail]>

osgiliath.id.dth.dk [129.142.65.24]:  /pub/amiga/graphics/Radiance - *Amiga
    port of Radiance 2.0*.  Per Bojsen <[e-mail]>

ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de [134.106.1.9] : *PoV raytracer*
    pub/dkbtrace/incoming/polyray - Polyray raytracer

ftp.uni-kl.de [131.246.9.95]: /pub/amiga/raytracing/imagine - mirror of
    the hubcap Imagine files.

neptune.inf.ethz.ch [129.132.101.33]: XYZ - *XYZ GeoBench*
    Peter Schorn <[e-mail]>

iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10]: /Graphics/graphtal* - a L-system interpreter.
    Christoph Streit <[e-mail]>

amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80]: /amiga/gfx - Graphics stuff
    for the Amiga computer.


MIDDLE EAST
-----------

gauss.technion.ac.il [132.68.112.60]: *kaleida*

AUSTRALIA:
----------

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, plus some 8- and
    24bit images and lots of other stuff.  pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD*
    Bernie Kirby <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>


OCEANIA - ASIA:
---------------

ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz [130.216.1.5]:  ftp/mac/architec - *VISION-3D facet
    based modeller, can output RayShade files*.  Many other neat things
    for Macs.  Paul Bourke <[e-mail]>

scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1]:  ftp2/SGI/Facial-Animation - Steve Franks
    site for facial animation.
     Steve Franks <[e-mail] OR [e-mail]>


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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail]
  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.

Lightwave 3D mail based file-server
-----------------------------------
  A mail based file server for 3D objects, 24bit JPEG images, GIF images
  and image maps is now online for all those with Internet mail access.
  The server is the official archive site for the Lightwave 3D mail-list
  and contains many PD and Shareware graphics utilities for
  several computer platforms including Amiga, Atari, IBM and Macintosh.

  The server resides on a BBS called "The Graphics BBS".  The BBS is
  operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week at the phone number of +1
  908/469-0049.  It has upgraded its modem to a Hayes Ultra 144
  V.32bis/V.42bis, which has speeds from 300bps up to 38,400bps.

  If you would like to submit objects, scenes or images to the server,
  please pack, uuencode and then mail the files to the address:
  [e-mail].

  For information on obtaining files from the server send a mail message
  to the address [e-mail] with the following in
  the body of the message:
    HELP
    /DIR
  And a help file describing how to use the server and a complete
  directory listing will be sent to you via mail.

[ Now it includes the Cyberware head and shouders in TTDDD format! Check it
 out, if you can't use FTP only! -- nfotis ]

INRIA-GRAPHLIB
--------------
  Pierre Jancene and Sabine Coquillart launched the inria-graphlib mail
  server a few months ago.

    echo help | mail [e-mail]

  will give you a quick summary of what inria-graphlib contains and
  how to browse among its files.

    echo send contents | mail [e-mail]

  will return the extended summary.

  As an other example :

    echo send cgrl from Misc | mail [e-mail]

  will return the Computer Graphics Resource Listing mirrored from
  comp.graphics.

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, [phone].
  24 hours, 105 Meg online.
--
From Jeff Walkup <[e-mail]>:
  "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".
--
  Bob Lindabury operates a BBS (see above the entry for "The Graphics BBS")
--
'You Can Call Me Ray' ray tracing related BBS in Chicago suburbs (708-358-5611)
 or (708-358-8721)
--
  Digital Pixel (Sysop: Mark Ng <[e-mail]>) is based at
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  Phone : [phone]
  Storage space: 120 megs
  Modem type: 14.4k baud, v32bis,32, mnp 5

  Access Fee: none.. (free)
  System supported : IBM, Amiga, Mac.  (have mostly IBM, but need a good
    AMIGA and MAC source.)

  Only on line. Currently no echo mail.
  Topics: Raytracing, Fractals, Graphics programming, CAD.
--
From: David Tiberio <[e-mail]>

  Amiga Graphics BBS [phone] 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, [phone].

  Much PoV-Ray related stuff.
--
From: Scott Bethke <[e-mail]>

The Intersection BBS, 410-250-7149.

  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.

==========================================================================

5. Ray-tracing/graphics-related mailing lists
=============================================

Imagine
-------
  Modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]
  (Dave Wickard has substituted Steve Worley in the maintenance of
  the mailing list) - PLEASE note that the unisys.com address is
  NO longer valid!!!

Lightwave
---------
  (for the Amiga. It's part of Newtek's Video Toaster):
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]
  (Bob Lindabury)

Toaster
-------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail] with a *body* of:
     subscribe toaster-list

Real 3D
-------
  Another modeling and animation system for the Amiga:
  To subscribe, send a mail containing the body

  subscribe real3d-l <Your full name>

  to [e-mail]

Rayshade
--------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]
  (Craig Kolb)

Alladin 4D for the Amiga
----------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]

  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: [e-mail]

REND386
-------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]

PoV ray / DKB raytracers
------------------------
  To subscribe, send a mail containing the body

  subscribe dkb-l <Your full name>

  to [e-mail]

  send material to [e-mail]

Mailing List for Massively Parallel Rendering
---------------------------------------------
  send subscription requests to [e-mail]
  send material to [e-mail]

==========================================================================

6. 3D graphics editors
======================

a. Public domain, free and shareware systems
============================================

VISION-3D
---------
  Mac-based program written by Paul D. Bourke ([e-mail]).
  The program can be used to generate models directly in the RayShade
  and Radiance file formats (polygons only).
  It's shareware and listed on the FTP list.

BRL
---
  A solid modeling system for most environments -- including SGI and X11.
  It has CSG and NURBS, plus support for Non-Manifold Geometry
  [Whatever it is].

  You can get it *free* via FTP by signing and returning the relevant license,
  found on ftp.brl.mil. Uses ray-tracing for engineering analyses.

  Contact:

  Ms. Carla Moyer
  (410)-273-7794 tel.
  (410)-272-6763 FAX
  [e-mail] E-mail

  Snail mail:

  BRL-CAD Distribution
  SURVIAC Aberdeen Satellite Office 1003
  Old Philadelphia Road,
  Suite 103 Aberdeen
  MD  21001  USA

IRIT
----
  A constructive solid geometry (CSG) modeling program for PC and X11.
  Includes freeform surface support. Free - see FTP list for where to
  find it.

SurfModel
---------
  A solid modeling program for PC written in Turbo Pascal 6.0 by
  Ken Van Camp. Available from SIMTEL, pd1:<msdos.srfmodl> directory.

NOODLES
-------
   From CMU, namely Fritz Printz and Levent Gursoz ([e-mail]).
   It's based on Non Manifold Topology.
   Ask them for more info, I don't know if they give it away.

XYZ2
----
  XYZ2 is an interactive 3-D editor/builder written by Dale P. Stocker to
  create objects for the SurfaceModel, Automove, and DKB raytracer packages.
  XYZ2 is free and can be found, for example, in SIMTEL20 as
  <MSDOS.SURFMODL>XYZ21.ZIP (DOS only??)

3DMOD
-----
  It's an MSDOS program. Check at barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu [128.153.28.12],
  /pub/msdos/graphics/3dmod.* . Undocumented file format :-(
  3DMOD is (C) 1991 by Micah Silverman, 25 Pierrepoint Ave., Postdam,
  New York 13676, tel. [phone]

NORTHCAD
--------
  Shareware, <MSDOS.CAD>NCAD3D42.ZIP in SIMTEL20. Undocumented file format :-(

b. Commercial systems
=====================

Alpha_1
-------
  A spline-based modeling program written in University of Utah.
  Features: splines up to trimmed NURBS; support for boolean operations;
    sweeps, bending, warping, flattening etc.; groups of objects, and
    transformations; extensible object types.
  Applications include: NC machining, Animation utilities,
    Dimensioning, FEM analysis, etc.
  Rendering subsystem, with support for animations.
  Support the following platforms: HP 300 and 800's (X11R4, HP-UX 6.5),
    SGI 4D or PI machines (X11R4 and GL, IRIX 3.3.1), Sun SparcStation
    (X11R4, SunOS 4.1.1).

  Licensing and distribution is handled by EGS:
    Glenn McMinn, President
    Engineering Geometry Systems
    275 East South Temple, Suite 305
    Salt Lake City, UT  84111
    [phone]
    [e-mail]

  The charge is $675 per platform.  You may run the system on as many
  different workstations of that type as you wish.  For each platform
  there is also a $250 licensing fee for Portable Standard Lisp (PSL)
  which is bundled with the system.  You need to obtain an additional
  license from the University of Utah for PSL from the following address:
    Professor Robert Kessler
    Computer Science Department
    University of Utah
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

  [ EGS can handle the licensing of PSL for U.S. institutions for a
    300 $USD nominal fee -- nfotis ]

VERTIGO
-------

  They have an Educational Institution Program. The package is used in
  the industrial design, architectural, scientific visualization,
  educational, broadcast, imaging and post production fields.

  They'll [quoting from a letter sent to me -- nfotis ] "donate fully
  configured Vertigo 3D Graphics Software worth over $29,000USD per
  package to qualified educational institutions for licencing on any
  number of Silicon Graphics Personal IRIS or POWER Series Workstations.
  If you use an IRIS Indigo station, we will also licence our Vertigo
  Revolution Software (worth $12,000USD).

  If you are interested in participating in this program please send a
  letter by mail or fax [phone]) on your institution's letterhead
  briefly outlining your potential uses for Vertigo together with the
  following information: 1. UNIX version 2. Model and number of SGI
  systems 3. Peripheral devices 4. Third Party Software.

  Participants will be asked to contribute $750USD per institution to cover
  costs of the manual, administration, and shipping.

  We recommend that Vertigo users subscribe to our technical support
  services. For an annual fee you will receive: technical assistance
  on our support hotline, bug fixes, software upgrades and manual updates.
  For educational institution we will waive the $750 administration fee
  if support is purchased.

  The annual support fee is $2,500 plus the following cost for additional
  machines:

  Number of machines:        2-20        20+
  Additional cost per machine:    $700        $600 "

[ There's also a 5-day training program - nfotis]

Contact:
  Vertigo Technology INC
  Suite 1010
  1030 West Georgia St.
  VANCOUVER, BC
  CANADA, V6E 2Y3

  Phone: [phone]
  Fax:   [phone]

[ Does anyone know of such offers from TDI, Alias, Softimage, Wavefront,
  etc.??? this would be a VERY interesting part!!  -- nfotis ]

PADL-2
------
[ Basically, it's a Solid Modeling Kernel in top of which you build your
  application(s)]

  Available by license from
    Cornell Programmable Automation
    Cornell University
    106 Engineering and Theory Center
    Ithaca, NY 14853

  License fees are very low for educational institutions and gov't agencies.
  Internal commercial licenses and re-dissemination licenses are available.
  For an information packet, write to the above address, or send your
  address to:   [e-mail] (Richard Marisa)

ACIS
----
  From Spatial Technology. It's a Solid Modelling kernel callable from C.
  Heard that many universities got free copies from the company.
  The person to contact regarding ACIS in academic institutions is

    Scott Owens, e-mail: [e-mail]

  And their address is:

  Spatial Technology, Inc.
  2425 55th St., Bldg. A
  Boulder, CO 80301-5704
  Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]

MOVIE-BYU
---------
  Basically [in my understanding], this is a FEM pre- and post-proccessor
  system. It's fairly old today, but it still serves some people in
  Mech. Eng. Depts.
  Now it's superseded from CQUEL.BYU (pronounced "sequel"). That's a
  complete modelling, animation and visualization package. Runs in the usual
  workstation environments (SUN, DEC, HP, SGI, IBM RS6000, and others)
  You can get a demo version (30-days trial period) either by sending $20
  USD in their address or a blank tape. It costs 1,500 for a full run-time
  licence.

  Contact:

  Engineering Computer Graphics Lab
  368 Clyde Building, Brigham Young Univ.
  Provo, UT 84602
  Phone: [phone]
  E-mail: [e-mail]


twixt
-----
  Soon to add stuff about it... If I get a reply to my FAX

VOXBLAST
--------
  It's a volume renderer marketed by:
  Vaytek Inc. (Fairfield, Iowa phone: [phone]) , running on PCs
  with 386+FPU at least.  Call Vaytek for more info.

VoxelBox
--------
  A 3D Volume renderer for Windows. Features include direct
  ray-traced volume rendering, color and alpha mapping,
  gradient lighting, animation, reflections and shadows.

  Runs on a PC(386 or higher) with at least an 8 bit video card(SVGA is fine)
  under Windows 3.x. It costs $495.

  Contact:

  Jaguar Software Inc.
  573 Main St., Suite 9B
  Winchester, MA 01890
  [phone]
  [e-mail] (john w poduska)

==========================================================================

7. 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 ([e-mail]).
[ 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: [e-mail].
  [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
  ([e-mail])

  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.

==========================================================================

8. 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. 5.1 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, (USA) 703-698-9600

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 [e-mail]
  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: [phone] (FAX: x 5893),
  e-mail: [e-mail] or {...!}mcsun!uknet!rlinf!mm or
          [e-mail]

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9. Scene generators/geographical data/Maps/Data files
=====================================================

DEMs (Digital Elevation Models)
-------------------------------
  DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) as well as other cartographic data
  [huge] is available from spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78], /pub/map.

  Contact:
  Lee Moore -- Webster Research Center, Xerox Corp. --
  Voice: [phone]
  Arpa, Internet:  [e-mail]
[ Check also on ncgia.ucsb.edu (128.111.254.105), /pub/dems -- nfotis ]

  Many of these files are also available on CD-ROM selled by USGS:
  "1:2,000,000 scale  Digital Line Graph (DLG) Data". Contains datas
  for all 50 states. Price is about $28, call to or visit in offices
  in Menlo Park, in Reston, Virginia (800-USA-MAPS).

  The Data User Services Division of the Bureau of the Census also has
  data on CD-ROM (TSO standard format) that is derived from USGS
  1:100,000 map data. Call [phone] for more info or they have
  a BBS at [phone].


Fractal Landscape Generators
----------------------------

Public Domain:

  Many people have written fractal landscape generators. for example
  for the Mac some of these generators were written by
  [e-mail] (Paul D. Bourke).
  Many of the programs are available from the FTP sites and mail
  archive servers. Check with Archie.

Commercial:

  Vista Pro 2.0 for the Amiga from Virtual Reality Labs -- list price
  is about $100. Their address is:
    VRL
    2341 Ganador court
    San Luis Obispo,
    CA 93401
    Telephone or FAX [phone]

  Scenery Animator (also for the Amiga) is of the same caliber with Vista Pro.
  Check with:
    Natural Graphics
    P.O. Box 1963
    Raklin, CA 95677
    Phone [phone]

  Don't forget to ask about companion programs and data disks/tapes.

  Addition: Vista Pro 2 has just ported to the PCs.


CIA World Map II
----------------
[  NOTE: this database is quite out of date, and not topologically structured.
  If you need a standard for world cartographic data, wait for the
  Digital Chart of the World. This 1:1M database has been produced from
  the Defense Mapping Agency's ONCs and will be available, together with
  searching and viewing software, on a number of CD-ROMs later this summer. ]

  Check into HANAUMA.STANFORD.EDU and UCSD.EDU (see ftp list above)
  The CIA database consists of coastlines, rivers and political boundaries
  in the form of line strokes. Also on hanauma.stanford.edu is a 720x360
  array of elevation data, containing one ieee floating point number for
  every half degree longitude and latitude.

  A program for decoding the database, mfil, can be found on the machine
  pi1.arc.umn.edu (137.66.130.11).
  There's another program, which reads a compressed CIA Data Bank file and
  builds a PHIGS hierachical structure. It uses a PHIGS extension known as
  polyline sets for performance, but you can use regular polylines. Ask
  Joe Stewart <[e-mail]>.
  The raw data at Stanford require the vplot package to be able to view it.
  (was posted in comp.sources.unix). To be more exact, you'll have to
  compile just the libvplot routines, not the whole package.

NCAR data
---------
  NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) has many types of
  terrain  data, ranging from elevation datasets at
  various resolutions, to information about soil types, vegetation, etc.
  This data is not free -- they charge from $40 to $90 or more, depending
  on the data volume and media (exabyte tape, 3480 cartridge, 9-track tape,
  IBM PC floppy, and FTP transfer are all available).  Their data archive
  is mostly research oriented, not hobbyist oriented.  For more information,
  email to [e-mail].

UNC data tapes with voxel data
--------------
  There are 2 "public domain" tapes with data for the comparison and
  testing of various volume rendering algorithms (mainly MRI and CT
  scans). These tapes are distributed by the SoftLab of UNC @ Chapel Hill.
  ([e-mail])

  The data sets (volume I and II) are also available via anonymous FTP from
  omicron.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.159] in pub/softlab/CHVRTD

NASA
----
  Many US agencies such as NASA publish CD-ROMs with many altimetry data
  from various space missions, eg. Viking for Mars, Magellan for Venus,
  etc. Especially for NASA, I would suggest to call the following
  address for more info:

     National Space Science Date Center
     Goddard Space Flight Center
     Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
     Telephone: [phone]
     Email address:  [e-mail]

  The data catalog (*not* the data itself) is available online.
  Internet users can telnet to nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.10.4) and log
  in as 'NODIS' (no password).

  You can also dial in at (301)-286-9000 (300, 1200, or 2400 baud, 8 bits,
  no parity, one stop). At the "Enter Number:" prompt, enter MD and
  carriage return. When the system responds "Call Complete," enter a few
  more carriage returns to get the "Username:" and log in as 'NODIS' (no
  password).

  NSSDCA is also an anonymous FTP site, but no comprehensive list of
  what's there is available at present.

Earth Sciences Data
-------------------

  There's a listing of anonymous FTP sites for earth science data, including
  imagery. This listing is called "Earth Sciences Resources on Internet",
  and you can get it via anonymous FTP from csn.org [128.138.213.21]
  in the directory COGS under the name "internet.resources.earth.sci"

  Some sites include:
  aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121]: pub/avhrr/images - AVHRR images
  ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3]: pub/SPACE/CDROM  - images from
    Magellan and Viking missions etc.
  vab02.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.47]: pub/gifs/misc/landsat -
    Landsat photos in GIF and JPEG format

Others
------
  Daily values of river discharge, streamflow, and daily weather data is
  available from EarthInfo, 5541 Central Ave., Boulder CO  80301.  These
  disks are expensive, around $500, but there are quantity discounts.
  [phone].

  Check vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98], the wx directory carries
  data regarding surface analysis, weather radar, and sat view pics in
  GIF format (updated hourly)

  pioneer.unm.edu [129.24.9.217] is the Space and Planetary Image Facility
  (located on the University of New Mexico campus) FTP server. It provides
  Anonymous FTP access to >150 CD-ROMS  with data/images.

  A disk with earthquake data, topography, gravity, geopolitical info
  is available from NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center), 325 Broadway,
  Boulder, CO  80303.  [phone].

  EOSAT (at least in the US) now sells Landsat MSS data older than two years
  old for $200 per scene, and they have been talking about a similar deal
  for Landsat TM data. The MSS data are 4 bands, 80 meter resolution.

  Check out anonymous FTP to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
  UNIX/PolyView/alpha-shape for a tool that creates convex hulls
  alpha-shapes (a generalization of the convex hull) from 3D point sets.

  The GRIPS II (Gov. Raster Image Processing Software) CD-ROM
  is available from CD-ROM Inc. at 1-800-821-5245 for $49.
  Code for viewing ADRG (Arc Digitised Raster Graphics) files is
  available on the GRIPS II CD-ROM. The U.S. Army Engineer
  Topographic Labs (Juan Perez) code is also available via FTP
  ( adrg.zip archive in  spectrum.xerox.com )

NRCC range data
---------------
  Rioux M., Cournoyer L. "The NRCC Three-Dimensional Image Data Files",
  Tech. Report, CNRC 29077, National Research Council Canada,
  Ottawa, Canada, 1988
  [ From what I understand, these data are from a laser range finder,
   and you can a copy for research purposes ]

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10. 3D scanners - Digitized 3D Data
===================================

a. Cyberware Labs, Monterey, CA, manufactures a 3D color laser digitizer
  which can be used to model parts of, or a complete, human body.
  They run a service bureau also, so they can digitize models for you.

  Address:
    Cyberware Labs, Inc
    8 Harris Ct, Suite 3D
    Monterey, CA 93940
  Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]

b. Polhemus makes a 6D input device (actually a couple of models)
  that senses position (3D) and *orientation* (+3D) based on electromagnetic
  field interference.  This equipment is also incorporated in the
  VPL Dataglove.
  This hardware is also called ISOTRACK, from Keiser Aerospace.

Ascension Technology makes a similar 3D input device.
There is a company, Applied Sciences(?), that makes a 3D input
device (position only) based on speed of sound triangulation.

c. A company that specializes in digitizing is Viewpoint. You can ask
   for Viewpoint's _free_ 100 page catalog full of ready to
   ship datasets from categories such as cars, anatomy, aircraft,sports,
   boats, trains, animals and others. Though these objects are
   quite expensive, the cataloge is nevertheless of interest for it
   has pictures of all the available objects in wireframe , polygon mesh.

  Contact:

  Viewpoint,
  870 West Center,
  Orem, Utah 84057
  ph# 801-224-2222
  fax# [phone]
  1-800-DATASET

  Some addresses for companies that make digitizers:

  Ascension Technology
  Bird, Flock of Birds, Big Bird: 6d trackers
  P.O. Box 527,
  Burlington, VT 05402
  Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]

  Polhemus Incorporated
  Digitizer: 6d trackers
  P.O. Box 560, Hercules Dr.
  Colchester, Vt. 05446
  Tel: [phone]

  Logitech Inc.
  Red Baron, ultrasonic 6D mouse
  6506 Kaiser Dr.
  Freemont, CA 94555
  Tel: [phone]w

  Shooting Star Technology
  Mechanical Headtracker
  1921 Holdom Ave.
  Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5B 3W4
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

  Spaceball Technologies, Inc.
  Spaceball: 6d stationary input device
  600 Suffolk Street
  Lowell, MA, 01854
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]
  Tel in Mountain View: [phone]

  Transfinite Systems
  Gold Brick: PowerGlove for Macintosh
  P.O. Box N
  MIT Branch Post Office
  Cambridge, MA 02139-0903
  Tel: [phone]
  email: [e-mail]

  VPL Research, Inc.
  EyePhone: head-mounted display
  DataGlove: glove/hand input device
  VPL Research Inc.
  950 Tower Lane
  14th Floor
  Foster City, CA 94404
  Tel: [phone]
  Fax: [phone]

  SimGraphics Engineering
  Flying Mouse: 6d input device
  1137 Huntington Rd. Suite A-1
  South Pasadena, CA 91030-4563
  [phone]


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