Computer graphics FTP site list


Computer graphics related FTP sites (and maintainers), 5/17/94 compiled by Eric Haines, erich@eye.com and Nick Fotis, nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr
(HTMLified by Simon Gibson)

First are listed various computer graphics related resources, with a particular focus on 3D rendering and modelling. As this list grew out of the Ray Tracing News, I focus on this topic first. At the end are the FTP sites for all software and more. Here's the table of contents:


Ray-tracers

Which one's the best? Here's a ray tracer feature comparison of some of the more popular ones. I assume some basics, like each can run on a Unix workstation, can render a polygon, has point lights, highlighting, reflection & refraction, etc.
Things in parentheses mean "no, but there's a workaround". For example, POV 1.0 has no efficiency scheme so takes forever on scenes with lots of objects, but there are programs which can generate efficiency structures for some POV objects (also, in this case, POV 2.0 will fix this deficiency).

RayshadePOV 1.0RTraceRadianceBobART
IBM PC version?YYYin 2.2YY
Amiga version? Y Y N Y N (Y)
Mac version? Y Y Y A/UX N Y
Sphere/Cylinder/Cone Y Y Y Y Y Y
Torus primitive Y Y Y N N Y
Spline surface prim. N Y Y N N Y
Arbitrary Algebraic prim. N Y N N N Y
Heightfield primitive Y Y N N N Y
Metaball primitive Y Y N N N Y
Modeling matrices Y Y Y N N Y
Constructive Solid Geo. Y Y Y (antimatter) (clipping) Y
Efficiency scheme? grids (user/2.0) ABVH octtree ABVH kdtree+
2D texture mapping Y Y Y Y Y Y
3D solid textures Y strong Y Y Y Y
Advanced local shading N Y Y Much! N N
Atmospheric effects Y Y N N Y Y
Radiosity effects N N Y Y N N
Soft shadows Y (2.0) Y Y Y Y
Motion blur Y N N N N N
Depth of field effects Y N Y N Y N
Stereo pair support Y N Y N N N
Advanced filter/sample Y N Y Y Y N
Animation support Y (S/W) Y (some) N Y
Alpha channel output Y N Y N N Y
Modeler lib/P3D IBM+ (convert) on Mac w/code P3D
Model converters from NFF Many! Many! some N NFF,OFF
Network rendering Inetray N N in 2.2 N dart,nart
User support maillist maillist good digest+ little good
Other S/W support some Much! a bit some a bit some

Timings - default size SPD databases (i.e. up to 10,000 objects in a scene), time in seconds on HP 720 workstation, optimized and gprof profiled code. Includes time to read in the ASCII data file and set up. Note that profiling slows down the execution times, so real times would be somewhat faster in all cases (about 30%); plus, the profiler itself is good to +-10%. Also, these timings are purely for this machine - results will vary considerably depending on the platform. Now that I've explained why these are useless, here goes:

balls gears mount rings teapot tetra tree
Art/Vort 478 1315 239 595 235 84 381
Art/Vort +float 415 1129 206 501 203 72 327
Rayshade w/tweak 188 360 174 364 145 61 163
Rayshade w/grid 1107 412 174 382 145 61 1915
Radiance 289 248 165 601 150 42 197
Bob 402 747 230 831 245 50 266
RTrace 664 1481 813 1343 341 153 372
RTrace c6 m0 652 1428 811 1301 331 155 363
POV 2.0beta+ 588 1895 668 1113 306 56 542
POV 1.0 191000 1775000 409000 260000 45000 31000 250000

The gears and mount tests are probably worth ignoring because everyone handles shadows for transparent objects differently. Some consider them opaque to shadows, others handle it differently.
Here are timing ratios (i.e. 1 is the fastest time for a given test, with the other timings normalized to this value):

balls gears mount rings teapot tetra tree
Art/Vort 2.54 5.30 1.45 1.63 1.62 2.00 2.34
Art/Vort +float 2.21 4.55 1.25 1.38 1.40 1.71 2.01
Rayshade w/tweak 1 1.45 1.05 1 1 1.45 1
Rayshade w/grid 5.89 1.66 1.05 1.05 1 1.45 11.75
Radiance 1.54 1 1 1.65 1.03 1 1.21
Bob 2.14 3.01 1.39 2.28 1.69 1.19 1.63
RTrace 3.53 5.97 4.93 3.69 2.35 3.64 2.28
RTrace c6 m0 3.47 5.76 4.92 3.57 2.28 3.69 2.23
POV 2.0beta+ 3.13 7.64 4.05 3.06 2.11 1.33 3.33
POV 1.0 1015.96 7157.26 2478.79 714.29 310.34 738.10 1533.74

Art/Vort was compiled with and without a "+f" compiler option; with it on floating point numbers are not promoted to doubles during expression evaluation (and so things runs noticeably faster). Other packages may benefit from such compiler options.
Rayshade had some minor user intervention. The ceiling of the cube root of the number of objects in the scene was used as the efficiency grid resolution. For example, balls has 7382 objects: cube root is 19.47, ceiling is then 20, so a 20 x 20 x 20 grid was used. Rayshade needs hand tweaking of the grid structures for extra efficiency (esp. with balls and tree), though this is fairly simple for the SPD tests (i.e. leave the background polygon out of the grid structure). Tweaking in these cases means leaving ground plane polygon (if it exists) out of the grid structure.
Radiance is quite different in its approach, as it is more physically based. Efficiency structures are built in a separate program (so the time spent doing this is not included in the above stats). Also, Radiance outputs in a floating point format (which can be quite handy).
RTrace is often a bit faster when the "c6 m0" options are used.
POV 2.0 has an efficiency scheme built in and so is comparable to the others, so don't get freaked out by the POV 1.0 performance numbers.

Distributed/Parallel Raytracers

Renderers which are not raytracers, and graphics libraries

Modellers, wireframe viewers

Radiosity renderers

Volume renderers

Geometric viewers

Data Formats and Data Sets for Ray Tracing

Volume Rendering Data

Written Material on Rendering

Image Manipulation Libraries

Libraries with code for graphics


FTP Sites

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

NORTH AMERICA

wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
This one has almost everything, but is also very busy - try during off-hours.
  • /graphics/graphics - get CONTENTS file for a roadmap. Within this directory are a wide range of resources, including:
    • bib - various ray tracing, radiosity, and general bibliographies.
    • books - code from books and errata listings for various texts.
    • echidna - Univ. of Melbourne programs: vogl/e, vopl, vort.
    • hershey-fonts - public domain stroke fonts.
    • objects - various object databases (TDDD, SPD, OFF, polyhedra, nurbs).
    • packages - image manipulation, CAD, and other graphics packages.
    • papers - various graphics papers.
    • radiosity - includes Radiance.
    • ray - many ray tracers, RTNews, Wilson's RT abstract collection, etc.
    • non-3d - 4d & hyperbolic space visualization.
    • virtual-worlds - VR related material.

The mirrors directory is huge, including many major sites, including the official POV archive, the Oldenburg POV site, the Geometry Center, NCSA, SGI, Virtual Worlds archive, Avalon object descriptions, Virtual Reality archive, and more.

There is also various platform dependent graphics software, e.g.

  • /msdos/ddjmag/ddj9209.zip - version 21 of Xsharp, with fast texture mapping.
  • /pub/aminet/gfx/3d - T3DLIB package.
  • /pub/aminet/gfx/3dobj - TDDD objects.
  • /pub/aminet/pix/trace - various raytraced images.
  • /pub/aminet/pix/wb - workbench wallpaper (IFF) images, textures.

admin: George Kyriazis (kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu)

princeton.edu [128.112.128.1]
Home of lots of ray tracing related software
  • /pub/Graphics (note capital "G") - *Rayshade 4.0.6 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.
  • /pub/trees/drinkwater - tree images from Drinkwater's growing program.

admin: Craig Kolb (cek@princeton.edu) [upload to ftp.cs.princeton.edu:/incoming]

avalon.chinalake.navy.mil [129.131.44.11]
  • pub - 3D objects (multiple formats), utilities, file format documents.
    • obj/Viewpoint and New are particularly good quality.
    • utils/misc - PV3D.
    • misc/texture - textures.
This site was created to be a 3D object "repository" for the net.
Francisco X DeJesus (dejesus@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil)

alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]
  • /pub/pov-ray/POV-Ray2.2 - *POVRay Compuserve group ray tracer (or POV)* and models.
  • /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer* (now ancient history).

David Buck (david_buck@carleton.ca)

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

moose.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.254.191]
  • /pub/RW5 - test databases for radiosity and other serious illumination simulation algorithms.

Peter Shirley (shirley@cs.indiana.edu)

ftp.mv.com [192.80.84.1]
  • pub/ddj - Official Dr. Dobbs Journal FTP repository.
  • *XSHARP*

hobbes.lbl.gov [128.3.12.38]
  • pub - *Radiance* ray trace/radiosity package, pictures, ports, etc.

Greg Ward (gjward@lbl.gov)

dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
  • Microcosm - demo of nice rendering and ray tracing system using an interpreted scripting language. Cosmic Software

(cosmic@world.std.com)

geom.umn.edu [128.101.25.31]
  • pub/software/geomview - *GEOMVIEW* and other Geometry Center visualization packages.

Contact: software@geom.umn.edu

ftp.kpc.com [144.52.120.9]
  • /pub/graphics/holl91 - Steve Hollasch's Thesis,
  • /pub/graphics/ray4 - *RAY4*,
  • /pub/graphics/wire4 - *WIRE4*.

Steve Hollasch (hollasch@kpc.com)

cs.usask.ca
  • pub/geometry/geombib.tar.Z - Computational Geometry bibliography (very extensive, 5539 entries to date).

Bill Jones (jones@skdad.usask.ca)

zamenhof.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.75]
  • pub/graphics.formats - Various electronic documents about many object and image formats.
  • pub/morphine - morphing package.

Mark Hall (foo@cs.rice.edu)

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, outputs in Rayshade and RIB formats.
  • /outgoing/marca/natural-textures - various textures (temporary).

Quincey Koziol (koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu)

ftp.ipl.rpi.edu [128.113.14.50]
  • pub/image - various 24 and 8 bit image stills and sequences.

Kevin Martin (sigma@ipl.rpi.edu)

ftp.psc.edu [128.182.66.148]
  • pub/p3d - p3d_2_0.tar P3D lispy scene language & renderers.

Joel Welling (welling@seurat.psc.edu)

ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]
  • *pbmplus.tar.Z*
  • pub/ray - RayShade data files.

Jef Poskanzer (jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov)

george.lbl.gov [128.3.196.93]
  • pub/ccs-lib/ccs.tar.Z - *CCS (Complex Conversion System), an image conversion & manipulation package.

ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.2]
  • /graphics - *IRIT*, old RT News back issues (not complete), NURBS models, other graphics related material,
  • graphics/3D/tsipp.3.0b.tar.Z - Tcl-SIPP (SIPP with Tcl interface),
  • /graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v?.tar.Z - Independent JPEG Group package for reading and writing JPEG files.

knob2.engin.umich.edu
  • *Utah Raster Toolkit*

Spencer Thomas (thomas@eecs.umich.edu)

ftp.x.org
  • /contrib - pbmplus, Image Magick, xloadimage, xli, xv, Img, lots more.
  • /pub/R5untarred/mit/demos/gpc - NCGA Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Suite.

cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]
  • /pub - Utah raster toolkit

Jamie Painter (jamie@cs.utah.edu)

artemis.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.115.149]
  • /sig-wtk/models - variety of DXF and NFF models.

gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]
  • /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*,
  • pub/graphics - jpeg, Khoros, pbmplus, Rayshade, Utah RLE, libtiff.
  • data/cia-wdb - CIA world database

pprg.eece.unm.edu [129.24.24.10]
  • /pub/khoros - *Khoros image processing package (huge, but great)*. [not sure about this site - last time I tried, no answer]

Danielle Argiro (danielle@bullwinkle.unm.edu)

opus.dacc.wisc.edu
  • /pub/x3d.2.2.tar.Z - *X3D*,
  • /pub/xdart.1.1.* - *XDART*,
  • ImageMagick 2.3

Mark Spychalla (spy@castlab.engr.wisc.edu)

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 (sam@sgi.com) [supercedes okeeffe.berkeley.edu for the LIBTIFF stuff]

ftp.brl.mil [128.63.16.158]
  • /brl-cad - information on how to get the BRL CAD package & ray tracer.
  • /pub/textures - a texture library has also begun here; not much here.

Lee A. Butler (butler@BRL.MIL)

ftp.cdrom.com
an aminet (Amiga network) site, among many others.
  • /pub/aminet/gfx/3d - T3DLIB package.
  • /pub/aminet/gfx/3dobj - TDDD objects.
  • /pub/aminet/pix/trace - various raytraced images.
  • /pub/aminet/pix/wb - workbench wallpaper (IFF) images, textures.

cicero.cs.umass.edu [128.119.40.189]
  • /texture_temp - 512x512 grayscale Brodatz textures,

from Julien Flack (julien@scs.leeds.ac.uk)

karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.7.6]
  • pub/Graphics/rtabs.shar.12.90.Z - *Wilson's RT abstracts*,
  • Speer RT bibliography.

J. Eric Townsend (jet@karazm.math.uh.edu)

ftp.pitt.edu [130.49.253.1]
  • /users/q/r/qralston/images - 24 bit image archive (small).

James Ralston Crawford (qralston@gl.pitt.edu)

cica.cica.indiana.edu
The MS Windows archive. Among other things,
  • RLIBDEMO.ZIP - RENDERLIB 3D graphics DLL,
  • desktop/gcad110.zip - GammaCAD 1.10,
  • programr/3dlib30a.zip - C++ & Pascal 3D graphic animation

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

netlib.att.com [192.20.225.2]
  • netlib/polyhedra - *polyhedra databases*. (If you don't have FTP, use the netlib automatic mail replier: netlib@netlib.att.com. Send one line message "send index" for info.

siggraph.org [128.248.245.250]
SIGGRAPH archive site.
  • publications/bibliography - extremely extensive computer graphics bibliography. Automatic mailer is archive-server@siggraph.org ("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),
  • pub - L-system code.

avs.ncsc.org [128.109.178.23]
  • sample_data/VolVis92 - Volume datasets from the Boston Workshop on Volume Visualization '92. This site is also the International AVS Center.
Terry Myerson (tvv@ncsc.org)

uvacs.cs.virginia.edu [128.143.8.100]
  • pub/suit/demo/{sparc,dec,etc} - SUIT (Simple User Interface Toolkit). "finger suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu" 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 may change to ftp.yorku.ca in the future]

earthsea.stanford.edu
  • ftp/pub/lego/cad/click and
  • .../cad/rayshade - LEGO modeling tools and definitions for Rayshade.

archive.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.52]
  • pub/siggraph92 - Code for Siggraph '92 Course 23 (Procedural Modeling and Rendering Techniques)

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 (mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu)

belvoir-arl-irisgt.army.mil
  • pub/viewtree/images - various generated tree images (quite nice!), runnable demo for SGI's.
Jason Weber (jason@belvoir-arl-irisgt.army.mil)

ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]
  • /honig --- Various stereo-pair images

ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
  • os2/2_x/graphics/rt.zip - CSG (?) ray tracer for PC with source, uses the GBM module for file I/O (found in same directory as gbmsrc.zip).
Andy Key (ak@hursley.ibm.com)

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). [not sure about this site, no answer the last time I tried it]
Colby Kraybill (opus@pioneer.unm.edu)

acs.cps.msu.edu
  • pub/sass - Rayshade tools: X windows font converter and animation tool.
Ron Sass (sass@cps.msu.edu)

ftp.u.washington.edu
  • public/virtual-worlds - *multiverse*, much on Virtual Reality, including many product review files and other resources.

ftp.apple.com
  • pub/VR/graphics.systems - Gossamer 2.0, real time rendering for the Mac.
Jon Blossom (jonbl@microsoft.com)

spectrum.xerox.com
  • pub/map/dem - USGS DEM data, plus lots of other map data related archives.

iris.ssec.wisc.edu [144.92.108.63]
  • pub/vis5d - 5D visualizer (for weather data, things like that).

vacation.venari.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.209.207]
  • zbuf.tar - Rayshade z-depth output patch.

math.uh.edu
  • /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews/software/graphics/raist - images done using Real3D.
  • pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews - reviews of Amiga products (including renderers, etc).

Dan Barrett (barrett@math.uh.edu)

herx1.colorado.edu
  • /pub/irt/irt52.zip - optics ray tracing program (said to be buggy, though).

toe.cs.berkeley.edu [128.32.149.117]
  • pub/multimedia/mpeg - MPEG viewing package.

dgp.toronto.edu
  • pub/dret/PhD - George Drettakis' PhD thesis on radiosity & global illumination, w/tiff files. Also at ftp.csri.toronto.edu: csri-technical-reports/293.

George Drettakis (dret@dgp.toronto.edu)

ftp.cs.cmu.edu
  • /afs/cs/misc/rayshade/all_mach/omega/doc/Examples - Rayshade example images.

oak.oakland.edu
  • pub/msdos/graphics/frain182.zip and frasr182.zip - Fractint fractal generator executable and source.

ftp.nosc.mil
  • /pub/grid.{ps,TeX,asc} - a short survey of methods to interpolate and contour bivariate data.

rtfm.mit.edu
  • /pub/usenet/news.answers - the land of FAQs. Graphics and pictures directories of particular interest. (Also available from mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu by sending a mail message containing: "help")

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*,
  • Wilt's OORT code,
  • pub/misc/CIA_WorldMap - CIA world data bank,
  • comp.graphics.research archive,
  • *India*, and much, much more.

Juhana Kouhia (jk87377@cs.tut.fi)
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de [134.106.1.9]
  • /pub/pov-ray - *POV raytracer*,
  • *PV3D*, Polyray, BLOB, etc.
  • wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de mirrors these directories of POV tools, etc. Newest tools are in the /pub/pov-ray/new directory. mirror at: ftp.uni-erlangen.de: /pub/pc/msdos/graphics/pov-ray.
nestor.epfl.ch [128.178.139.3]
  • /pub/unix/radiance - 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 (jonas-y@isy.liu.se)
irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]
  • */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD NFF format scenes, RayShade data files.

Didier Badouel (badouel@irisa.irisa.fr)
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 (hole@phoenix.oulu.fi)
(was: 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 (toivanen@jyu.fi)
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 (acc@asterix.inescn.pt)
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.211.2]
  • AERO, a virtual mechanics system, ties in with POVray and MPEG.

Hartmut Keller (keller@hermes.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
(was: vega.hut.fi) [128.214.3.82]
  • /graphics - RTN archive, ray tracers (MTV, QRT, others), NFF,
  • some models.
teeri.oulu.fi
  • pub/msdos/programming - files on game development on PCs, ray tracing, 3D, and too much more.

Jouni Miettunen (jon@stekt.oulu.fi)
sun4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]
  • /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV, etc
ftp.luth.se [130.240.0.25]
  • graphics/raytracing - prt, others,
  • ~/Doc - *Wilson's RT abstracts*,
  • Vivid.
  • /pub/aminet - aminet site (see wuarchive listing).
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 (heiko@math.fu-berlin.de)
    maggia.ethz.ch [129.132.17.1]
    • pub/inetray - *Inetray* and Sun RPC 4.0 code

    Andreas Thurnherr (ant@ips.id.ethz.ch)
    osgiliath.id.dth.dk [129.142.65.24]
    • /pub/amiga/graphics/Radiance - *Amiga port of Radiance 2.0*.

    Per Bojsen (bojsen@ithil.id.dth.dk)
    ftp.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.10]
    • /pub/supported/cs/graphics - *IRIT*.
    Gershon Elber (gershon@cs.technion.ac.il)
    iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10]
    • Graphtal L-system interpreter (includes animation support, X11 and x-buffer previewer, output for Rayshade).

    Christoph Streit (streit@iam.unibe.ch)
    ftp.uni-kl.de [131.246.9.95]
    • /pub/amiga/raytracing/imagine - mirror of the hubcap Imagine files (hubcap is no longer around).
    ise.fhg.de [132.230.254.6]
    pub/radiance/rshow - Radiance, *SGI interactive previewer for RADIANCE*.
    metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de
    pub/PROJECTS/GOOD0.60 - *GOOD graphics OO project, including YART ray tracer* Ekkehard 'Ekki' Beier
    neptune.inf.ethz.ch [129.132.101.33]
    XYZ - *XYZ GeoBench* Peter Schorn
    ftp.lifl.fr
    /pub/users/graphix/lefer/SEADS - ray tracer using SEADS structure. Wilfrid Lefer
    cast0.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.68.35]
    pub/gfl/temp.tar.gz - SunOs 4.1.3 POVRay executables. Geraint Lewis

AUSTRALIA

uniwa.uwa.edu.au
/pub/povray - *POVray*, plus many "unofficial" POV files. Currently very active. POVRAY account
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, IRIT, OORT, plus some 8- and 24bit images and lots of other stuff. pub/rad.tar.Z - *SGI_RAD* Bernie Kirby
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
plaza.aarnet.edu.au
mirror site of various places, including /graphics/graphics/mirrors/ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
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
katz.anu.edu.au
/pub/stereograms - Single image random dot stereogram site.

OCEANIA - ASIA

ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz [130.216.1.5]
architec/Applications - *VISION-3D facet based modeller for Mac, can output RayShade files*. architec/Textures - texture library of 200+ TIFF textures. architec/Translators - ArchiCAD to Radiance translator. Many other neat things for Macs. Mirrored at wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/architec. Paul Bourke
scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1]
ftp2/SGI/Facial-Animation - Steve Franks site for facial animation. Steve Franks
WWW sites (totally untested, I haven't diddled with XMosaic yet...): http://www.cs.princeton.edu/grad/cek/rayshade - Rayshade (pretty official) http://www.msi.umn.edu/miscdocs/Rayshade/index.html - Rayshade http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html - Rayshade http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/misc/rayshade/all_mach/omega/doc/Examples/ rayimages.html [or rayimgtxt.html for no icons] - Rayshade "standard" images. Mark Maimone http://www.ifi.uio.no/~mariusw/pov/utilities.html - POV utilities. http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk:/Ray.Tracing/ - Ian Grimstead's ray tracing bibliography http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/otfried/html/geombib.html - Computational Geometry bibliography. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/fractal-faq/faq.html - Fractal FAQ ====== END