raytracing links
These are links related to raytracing and computer graphics in some way, they are structured in the following subsections:
general raytracing pages
personal pages
unofficial POV-Ray versions (patches)
scientific paper collectionsThese links lead to external resources. I am not responsible for their content, they are just meant to show things I found interesting.
general
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The official POV-Ray-site |
| the best Raytracer, I created most pictures on these pages with it | |
| http://www.povray.org/ |
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LPARSER | by Laurens Lapré |
| A L-System-Generator for realistic simulation of plants | |
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljlapre/main.htm |
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John Beale's Homepage | by John Beale |
| Gforge and HF-Lab for creating and modifying POV-Ray heightfields | |
| http://www.best.com/~beale/ |
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Terrain Maker | by Eric Jorgensen |
| an easy-to-use program for creation of POV-Ray heightfields(DOS) | |
| http://www.ericjorgensen.com/html/tm.htm |
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Terragen |
| a program for effective creation of photorealistic landscape-pictures | |
| http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ |
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Fractint |
| an universal program for calculating many different fractals | |
| http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html |
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the pov-ray include files page | by Chris Colefax |
| Various useful include files for POV-Ray | |
| http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/ |
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Ken's bookmarks | by Ken Tyler |
| the largest collection of raytracing links i know | |
| http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/bkmrk999.htm |
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Visual Simulation Publications | by University of Utah School of Computing |
| A collection of scientific material concerning computer graphics | |
| http://www.cs.utah.edu/vissim/bibliography/ |
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POV-Ray Scene Description Language Quick Reference | by Robert B Chaffe |
| a complete reference of the entire syntax for the POV-Ray Scene Description Language | |
| http://www.donovansweb.com/~chaffe/quickref.html |
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The Matrix Page | by John VanSickle |
| using matrices in POV-Ray | |
| http://enphilistor.users4.50megs.com/matrix.htm |
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Povray Online Renderer (Version 3.1g) |
| for rendering your scenes | |
| http://www.badcheese.com/~steve/povray_form.shtml |
personal pages
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Uncle Tyler's Get Away | by Ken Tyler |
| Ken's website with POV-Ray include files and a large link list. | |
| http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html |
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rune|vision | by Rune S. Johansen |
| Site with lots of animations and various tips and include files. | |
| http://runevision.com/ |
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The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page | by Hugo Elias |
| Large site with various experiments and articles on different fields of computer graphics. | |
| http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/ |
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Margus Ramst's pages | by Margus Ramst |
| Gallery and POV-Ray related resources. | |
| http://www.hot.ee/margusrt/eng/main.html |
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Paul Bourke - Personal Pages | by Paul Bourke |
| Very extensive size about various fields of computer graphics. | |
| http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke/ |
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The POV-Ray Cyclopedia | by Josh English |
| A large number of Tutorials and descriptions concerning POV-Ray. | |
| http://www.spiritone.com/~english/cyclopedia/ |
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The Kevin Ellis Homepage | by Kevin Ellis |
| Nice pictures and code for good looking media clouds. | |
| http://perso.libertysurf.co.uk/kevin.ellis/interest/pov/pov.html |
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Même POV-Ray !!! | by Christophe Bouffartigue |
| Impressive pictures and code for various useful objects as well as the clothray patch can be found here. | |
| http://tofbouf.free.fr/ |
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The Persistance of Ignorance | by Jaime Vives Piqueres |
| High quality pictures and a lot of useful tips for creating realism with POV-Ray. | |
| http://www.ignorancia.org/index.shtml |
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Oyonale | by Gilles Tran |
| Very impressive pictures and a lot of include files, descriptions of techniques etc. around POV-Ray. | |
| http://www.oyonale.com/oy_en.htm |
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Descriptions and Samples for the Raytracer POVRAY | by Friedrich A. Lohmueller |
| Site especially suited for Beginners with a lot of tutorials and examples around POV-Ray. | |
| http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/pov__eng.htm |
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Forgotten worlds | by Mick Hazelgrove |
| A lot of very nice pictures made with POV-Ray. | |
| http://www.mhazelgrove.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm |
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Andrew's POV Place | by Andrew Clinton |
| The Splinetree include file and various POV-Ray tips can be found here. | |
| http://povplace.addr.com/ |
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Chris Young's Home Page | by Chris Young |
| web site of Chris Young, former POV-Team-coordinator. | |
| http://members.iquest.net/~cyoung/ |
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Graphic Gallery CYBERBUST | by Tsutomu Higo |
| Large Abstract Gallery. | |
| http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nj2t-hg/ |
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Laurens Lapre's homepage | by Laurens Lapre |
| home of LPARSER and a nice L-System gallery. | |
| http://home.wanadoo.nl/laurens.lapre/ |
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C.J.van der Mark's page | by C.J.van der Mark |
| Gallery with a lot of heightfield and fractal images. | |
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~cvdmark/ |
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H.E. Day's Homepage | by H.E. Day |
| A lot of very good SF images and animations. | |
| http://heday.povray.co.uk/ |
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Asti´s kleine POVRAY-Seite | by Asti |
| Quite extensive site on POV-Ray related stuff in german language. | |
| http://rover.vistecprivat.de/~asti/ |
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Site Web de la Famille de la Losa | by Arnaud de la Losa |
| Various good images and a french POV-Ray tutorial. | |
| http://perso.club-internet.fr/delalosa/home.htm |
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El laboratorio de POV-Ray | by Francisco Munoz |
| Some pictures and include files. | |
| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/6578/ |
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Jörn's 3D Render- & Raytracingpage - Index | by Jörn |
| Extensive links collection in german language. | |
| http://homes.rhein-zeitung.de/~jseger/index.htm |
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Sylow's POV-Ray studio | by Shiro Nakayama |
| Gallery and various include files (japanese). | |
| http://www.koganet.ne.jp/~sylow/pov/ |
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Arts Visuels Graphiks 3D | by Alex Pilote |
| Gallery, french language | |
| http://www3.sympatico.ca/floral.audet/index.html |
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Home of GroundNet Graphics | by Treshall Entity |
| Pictures, various include files and a small tool to tile textures seamlessly. | |
| http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Teahouse/8148/ground_net.html |
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GEOGRAFIKA | by Gena Obukhov |
| Gallery with impressive pictures and some POV-Ray objects. | |
| http://propro.ru/go/index.html |
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Paul T. Dawson's Page. | by Paul T. Dawson |
| ptdtree and other include files. | |
| http://www.netaxs.com/~ptdawson/ |
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Mark Hanford's POV-Ray Pages | by Mark Hanford |
| Various POV-Ray Objects and a POV-SDL to HTML syntax highlighter. | |
| http://www.sunmaster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/povray/ |
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Mathematical Surfaces | by Tore Nordstrand |
| POV-Ray generated pictures of various mathematical surfaces. | |
| http://www.uib.no/People/nfytn/mathgal.htm |
unofficial POV-Ray versions (patches)
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MegaPOV | by Nathan Kopp |
| A custom POV-Ray version with many additional functions. | |
| http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm |
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POVMan | by Vahur Krouverk |
| patch for using Renderman shaders with POV-Ray. | |
| http://www.aetec.ee/fv/vkhomep.nsf/ |
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ClothRay | by Christophe Bouffartigue |
| cloth simulation patch. | |
| http://tofbouf.free.fr/clothray/index_en.html |
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PVMPOV | by Jakob Flierl |
| patch for parallel computing with POV-Ray 3.1. | |
| http://pvmpov.sourceforge.net/ |
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Unofficial Unix/Linux MegaPovPlus | by Mark Gordon |
| MegaPovPlus package for Linux | |
| http://www.mailbag.com/users/mtgordon/megapov.html |
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PoV Stochastic Radiosity Patch Page | by Stéphane Marty |
| An alternative monte carlo radiosity implementation. | |
| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/albedo/patchedpov.html |
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Mass Scenes Rendering Framework | by Dusan Bezak |
| A patch providing functions for easier handling of a large number of similar objects. | |
| http://www.ksp.sk/~dushan/dipl.php |
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Povray Recompilation Experiment | by Steve Schmitt |
| Optimized compiles of POV-Ray. | |
| http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/ |
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MLPov 0.83 | by Mael |
| Various new pattern and texture related functions as well as HDRI support. | |
| http://pov.monde.free.fr/mael/mlpov083eng.html |
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Les Patches POVray de J. Grimbert | by Jérôme Grimbert |
| Tesselation patch (french). | |
| http://jgrimbert.free.fr/pov/patch.html |
scientific paper collections
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Stanford Computer Graphics Lab's Technical publications |
| A large collection of papers of various fields of coputer graphics. | |
| http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/ |
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Animation Lab | by Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center |
| About various animation related topics. | |
| http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation/ |
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Dobashi's Publications | by Yoshinori Dobashi |
| a collection of papers. | |
| http://www.eml.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~doba/pub_doba.html |
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Visual Simulation Publications | by Visual Simulation Group, University of Utah |
| various very interesting papers. | |
| http://www.cs.utah.edu/vissim/bibliography/ |
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Henrik Wann Jensen's Publications | by Henrik Wann Jensen |
| Texts mostly related to photon mapping and modelling of light and materials. | |
| http://graphics.stanford.edu/~henrik/papers/ |
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Publications - MIT Computer Graphics Group - LCS | by MIT Computer Graphics Group |
| Large collection of Computer graphics related texts. | |
| http://www.graphics.lcs.mit.edu/publications.html |
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UC Berkeley Computer Vision Group |
| Description of projects concerning computer vision. | |
| http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/vision/ |
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Brown University Graphics Group Publications |
| Collection of papers. | |
| http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/graphics/research/pub/ |
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Publications of the Program of Computer Graphics | by Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics |
| Collection of papers. | |
| http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/pubs/ |
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Graphics and Imaging Laboratory: Publications | by University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering |
| Collection of papers. | |
| http://grail.cs.washington.edu/pub/ |
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Publications | by James Stewart |
| Papers mostly on mesh related topics. | |
| http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/jstewart/papers/ |
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Hugues Hoppe's home page | by Hugues Hoppe |
| Materials with focus on mesh modelling and rendering. | |
| http://research.microsoft.com/~hoppe/ |
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Publications Archive | by Computer Graphics, TU Braunschweig |
| Collection of papers. | |
| http://www.cg.cs.tu-bs.de/PubArc/ |
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SIGGRAPH 2000 papers on the web | by Tim Rowley |
| A directory of Siggraph papers available online. | |
| http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2000.html |
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Graphics & Geometry Group -- Publications | by Princeton University |
| Collection of papers. | |
| http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/publications.html |
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Codepage | by Karim Ratib |
| Links to various information sources. | |
| http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~ratib/code/redirect.cgi?Goto=cg.htm |
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Publications | by Institut für Informatik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| Collection of papers. | |
| http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Publications |
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Virtual Reality Lab publications | by Virtual Reality Lab |
| mostly concerning animation. | |
| http://vrlab.epfl.ch/Publications/publications_index.html |
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Publications | by center for Human Modeling and Simulation, University of Pennsylvania |
| mostly about modeling and animation of humans. | |
| http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~hms/publications.html |
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Publications | by Computer Graphics Lab, ETH Zurich |
| Collection of papers. | |
| http://graphics.ethz.ch/main.php?Menu=5&Submenu=1 |
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Image Synthesis Publications | by University of Waterloo |
| Small collection of papers. | |
| http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/Projects/rendering/Papers/ |
