Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Public domain Raytracing programs
Date: 01 Oct 92  15:22:08 EST

Hi, on 24 Sep 92 (about 12:21:35) yo wrote to All :
 -> - DBW_RENDER   This program has great specials like mirroreffect
 -> for the three
 ->             different main colors, transparency, ambient and
 -> diffuse lighting
 ->             and much much more. It's one of the best Public
 -> Domain programs
 ->             I've ever seen
DKB is replaced by PoV. poy is availble at same addresses as dkb was abvailble at nl.cs.emu.edu (128.2.222.56) in /usr/mlm/ftp

PoV's c source files should also be availble around here.

look : <retreived of my mail_archive>


Some highlights:

RayShade - a great ray tracer for workstations on up.
DKBtrace - another good ray tracer, from all reports; works on PCs & Mac II.
Radiance - a ray tracer w/radiosity effects, a la Greg Ward (who wrote it).
VORT,QRT,MTV,DBW - yet more ray tracers, some with interesting features.
prt, VM_pRAY - parallel ray tracers.
SIPP - scanline Z-buffer renderer.
VOGLE - graphics learning environment (device portable).

SPD - a set of procedural databases for testing ray tracers.
NFF - simplistic file format used by SPD.
OFF - another file format.

RT News - collections of articles on ray tracing.
RT bib - all known (by me) articles on ray tracing, in "refer" format.
RT abstracts - collection of abstracts of many many RT articles.

Utah Raster Toolkit - nice image manipulation tools.
FBM - another set of image manipulation tools.
Graphics Gems - code from the ever so useful book.

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

weedeater.math.yale.edu [130.132.23.17]:  /pub - *Rayshade 3.0 ray tracer (and
 separate 387 executable)*, *color quantization code*, *SPD*, *RT
 News*, *Wilson's RT abstracts*, "RT bib*, *new Utah raster toolkit*,
 newer FBM, *Graphics Gems I & II code*.  Craig Kolb <kolb@yale.edu>

rascal.ics.utexas.edu [128.83.144.1]:  /misc/mac/inqueue - VISION-3D facet
 based modeller, can output RayShade and Radiance files.

cs.uoregon.edu [128.223.4.13]:  /incoming - *TDDD models*, /pub - *Irit solids
 modeller*, *MTV ray tracer*, *RT News*, *RT bibliography*, other
 raytracers (including RayShade, QRT, VM_pRAY), SPD/NFF, OFF objects,
 musgrave papers, some Netlib polyhedra, Roy Hall book source code,
 Hershey fonts, old FBM.

ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz [130.216.1.5]:  ftp/mac/architec - *VISION-3D facet
 based modeller, can output RayShade files*.  Paul Bourke
 <pdbourke@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>

alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]:  /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer*, *PVRay
 Compuserve group ray tracer*.   David Buck <david_buck@carleton.ca>

hobbes.lbl.gov [128.3.12.38]: Radiance ray trace/radiosity package.  Greg Ward
 <gjward@lbl.gov>

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*,
 comp.graphics.research archive, radiosity package from India.  Juhana
 Kouhia <jk87377@cs.tut.fi>

isy.liu.se [130.236.1.3]:  pub/sipp-2.1.tar.Z scan line z-buffer and Phong
 shading renderer.  Jonas Yngvesson <jonas-y@isy.liu.se>

calpe.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*, RayShade data files.  Jef
 Poskanzer <jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov>

irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]:  */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD
 NFF format scenes, RayShade data files (Americans: check
 ftp.ee.lbl.gov first).  Didier Badouel <badouel@irisa.irisa.fr>

wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]:  /mirrors/unix-c/graphics - Rayshade ray
 tracer, MTV ray tracer, Vort ray tracer, FBM, PBM, popi, Utah raster
 toolkit.  /mirrors/msdos/graphics - DKB ray tracer, FLI RayTracker
 demos.  /graphics/graphics/radiosity - Radiance and Indian radiosity
 package.  /archive/graphics/graphics - George Kyriazis' stuff,
 including bibs, Graphics Gems I & II code, TDDD, OFF, RTN, Radiance,
 NFF, SIPP, etc etc.  Tracey Bernath <tmbernath@tiger.waterloo.edu>

tolsun.oulu.fi [128.214.5.6]:  *FLI RayTracker animation files (PC VGA)*,
 *RayScene demos* (Americans:  check wustl first).  Jari Kahkonen
 <hole@rieska.oulu.fi>

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 <joe@hanauma.stanford.edu>

freedom.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.85]:  *RT News back issues*, *source
 code from Roy Hall's book "Illumination and Color in Computer
 Generated Imagery"*, SPD package, *Heckbert/Haines ray tracing article
 bibliography*, Muuss timing papers.

uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2]:  /graphics - RT News back issues (not complete),
 NURBS models, other graphics related material.

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>

life.pawl.rpi.edu [128.113.10.2]: /pub/ray - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*.
 George Kyriazis <kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>

ab20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]: /amiga - DBW,
 /usenet/comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga/volume90/applications -
 DKBTrace 2.01.  <ftp@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov>

munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21]:  pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z - *VORT 2.1 CSG and
 algebraic surface ray tracer*, *VOGLE*, /pub - DBW, pbmplus.  David
 Hook <dgh@munnari.oz.au>

gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.1.63]:  pub - *VORT ray tracer*, *VOGLE*,
 Wilson's ray tracing abstracts.  Bernie Kirby <bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au>

freebie.engin.umich.edu [141.212.68.23]:  *Utah Raster Toolkit*, Spencer Thomas
 <thomas@eecs.umich.edu> or Rod Bogart <rgb@caen.engin.umich.edu>.

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

gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*,
 /pub/misc/graf-bib - *graphics bibliographies (incomplete)*.  Randi
 Rost <rost@granite.dec.com>

hubcap.clemson.edu [130.127.8.1]: /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine - stuff for the
 Amiga Imagine & Turbo Silver ray tracers.  ask Glenn Lewis
 <glewis@pcocd2.intel.com>

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

expo.lcs.mit.edu [18.30.0.212]:  contrib - *pbm.tar.Z portable bitmap
 package*, *poskbitmaptars bitmap collection*, *Raveling Img*,
 xloadimage.  Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>

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
 <raveling@venera.isi.edu>

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.

okeeffe.berkeley.edu [128.32.130.3]:  /pub - TIFF software and pics.  Sam
 Leffler <sam@okeeffe.berkeley.edu>

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

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

gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.1.63]:  SPD, NFF & OFF databases, Graphics Gems
 code.  Bernie Kirby <bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au>

hp4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]: /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV,
 etc.

ftp.brl.mil [128.63.16.158]: /old/brl-cad - information on how to get the
 BRL CAD package & ray tracer.

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

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

ftp.fu-berlin.de []:  /pub/unix/graphics/rayshade4.0/inputs - aq.tar.Z is
 RayShade aquarium (Americans:  check ftp.ee.lbl.gov first).  Heiko
 Schlichting <heiko@math.fu-berlin.de>

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

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

maeglin.mt.luth.se: /graphics/raytracing - vivid

sunee.waterloo.edu: /pub/raytracers - vivid

research.att.com []:  login as "netlib", or
netlib automatic mail replier:  UUCP - research!netlib, Internet -
 netlib@ornl.gov.  *SPD package*, *polyhedra databases*.  Send one
 line message "send index" for more info, "send haines from graphics"
 to get the SPD.

UUCP archive: avatar - RT News back issues.  For details, write Kory Hamzeh
 <kory@avatar.avatar.com>



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