- ACM Crossroads: Ray Tracing
Article on Ray Tracing in the student magazine of the ACM.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-4/raytracing.html
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- Bagisas
A GUI the YAFRAY raytracer written in Python. Downloads, screenshots, and FAQ. Available for Linux and Windows.
http://www.fen-net.de/wolfram.kraus/Bagisas.html
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Brassman's Modeller And Animation Links
Links to modelling and animation utilities, many for POV-ray on Windows and Unix.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jeffab/links/modellinks.html
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Chuck's Ray Tracing Software
Personal page with links to programs for modeling, Ray tracing, converting, and animating. Plus models for various ray tracers. Windows, MacOS and Unix.
http://chuckr.bravepages.com/raytrac3.htm
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- CoolRay
Open Source Raytracer with a scene description language that provides constructs for programming like loops and functions. Its written in C++ and runs on Windows and Linux/Unix.
http://www.coolray.org/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- FAQ for realtime raytracing
The FAQ about speed optimization for raytracing for use in realtime raytracing.
http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/RTNews/demos/rtrt_faq.txt
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Flamingo
Plug-in for Rhino, uses both raytracing and radiosity to create single-frame images and animations. Product description, gallery, training, evaluation download, and purchasing. For Windows.
http://www.flamingo3d.com/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- FuzzyPhoton - The Raytracing Repository
Information about raytracing in general, with a how-to section and an A-Z reference. Technical articles and a gallery of images renderd with the VRWorld4 raytracer developed by the author, and humour.
http://fuzzyphoton.tripod.com/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- GRT Raytracer
Raytracing system written in Common Lisp. It trys to become good classical raytracer: reasonably efficient, with a good selection of primitives, advanced texturing capabilities, animation support, and probably integration of the scripting environment with some GUI tools.
http://www.nongnu.org/grt/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Internet Raytracing Competition
Regular awards for best raytraced still images and animations submitted by the public. Site includes most recent winners, voting on the current round, and the topic and rules for submitting to the next round.
http://www.irtc.org/
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Introduction to Ray Tracing
The introduce of ray tracing. Also known as ray casting, determines the visibility of surfaces by tracing imaginary rays of light from the viewer's eye to the objects in the scene.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/multimedia/nsfmmedia/cware/graphics/notes/vsdet/vsray/vsray00.html
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Java Ray Tracer
Java ray tracing engine distributed under the GNU General Public License. Images, screenshots, download, and feature list.
http://j3d.sourceforge.net/
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- Java Ray Tracer
Java ray tracing engine distributed under the GNU Public License. Images, screenshots, download, and feature list.
http://wave.prohosting.com/j3d/
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Kray
Freeware raytracer with subsurface scattering, global illumination and many other features. Product details, downloads, gallery, and tutorial using the software.
http://fenix.artur.info/kray/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Laurens Lapre's Webpages
Home of the Lparser, the program reads a Lsystem description and processes it into a 3d form which can then be outputted in several formats, including VRML, DXF and POV.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/laurens.lapre/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Light in C++
A C++ class library available as source code implementing a physically correct renderer. Working on Unix and Windows.
http://www.photon.at/~werner/light/
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- Lightflow Rendering Interface
An object oriented library with API in C++ and Python for synthetic rendering, which provides a common environment and description language to treat light distribution in three dimensional spaces. Available for Linux and Windows.
http://www.lightflowtech.com/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Radiance
A raytracer trying to aid lighting designers and architects by predicting the light levels and appearance of a space prior to construction. It uses a hybrid approach of Monte Carlo and deterministic ray tracing. Available for Unix.
http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Ray tracing in Wikipedia
A overview non technical article on ray tracing also covering some history of the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Ray Tracing Introduction from SIGGRAPH
A basic introduction to building a ray tracer, with some pointers to more advanced subjects at the end.
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/raytrace/rtrace0.htm
(Added: Fri Mar 31 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Ray Tracing News
An infrequent newsletter on ray tracing and general computer-graphics research and resources.
http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/RTNews/html/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- RayChase
Fast raytracer that will render random images and display them on the desktop. Tested on KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, and Enlightenment. One can also write the output to an image file (to interactively updating web pages for example). Versions exist for FreeBSD and Linux.
http://cluclo.sourceforge.net/raychase/
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Rayshade
An extensible system for creating ray-traced images. It is written in C, yacc, and lex, and runs on Unix, AmigaOS, OS/2, DOS and Older MacOS.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~cek/rayshade/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- RayTraccio
A Java ray-tracer running as a applet that wants to be simple and clean but nonetheless has some advanced features.
http://www.lapo.it/RayTraccio.html
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Raytracing-FAQ
Home of the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing-faq with a online version.
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/rayfaq/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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