From rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!mahendo!wlbr!lonex.radc.af.mil!andrewsh Sun Feb 10 18:02:00 EST 1991 Article: 12577 of comp.graphics Path: rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!mahendo!wlbr!lonex.radc.af.mil!andrewsh From: andrewsh@lonex.radc.af.mil (Harold G. Andrews II) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: FTP list of ray tracers and modelers (LONG) Keywords: ray tracer modelers Message-ID: <1991Feb8.204045.16061@lonex.radc.af.mil> Date: 8 Feb 91 20:40:45 GMT Organization: Rome Laboratory (USAF/AFSC/ESD), Griffiss AFB, NY, USA Lines: 220 Hey Gang... I took a look through what people sent me for the Ray Tracing and Modeling software available at an anonymous FTP site near you. When I started out, I was not aware of Mr. Eric Haines' effort in this arena. As such, I abdicate any and all responsibility to generate similar lists to his capable hands. He seems to be more of an authority on the subject than I. I would like to thank all of those who sent me e-mail things and posted things. A nearly complete list of those who helped me follows the list of sites. ****************************************************************************** From: Eric Haines [Mr. Haines, as I stated earlier appears to be one of the great ray tracing gurus here on the net. This his list of FTP sites for public domain ray tracers and modeler. He last updated it on 17 January 1991.] (*) 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*, *color quantization code*, RT News, *new Utah raster toolkit*, newer FBM, *Graphics Gems code*. Craig Kolb cs.uoregon.edu [128.223.4.13]: /pub - *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. Mark VandeWettering 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 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. alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]: /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer*. David Buck uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2]: /graphics - RT News back issues (not complete), other graphics related material. iear.arts.rpi.edu [128.113.6.10]: /pub - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*. qrt, ohta's ray tracer, other RT's (including one for the AT&T Pixel Machine), RT News, Graphics Gems, wave ray tracing using digital filter method, Numerical Recipes code. George Kyriazis life.pawl.rpi.edu [128.113.10.2]: /pub/ray - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*. George Kyriazis xanth.cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]: /amiga/dbw.zoo - DBW Render for the Amiga (zoo format). Tad Guy munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21]: */pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z - CSG and algebraic surface ray tracer*, /pub - DBW, pbmplus. David Hook cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - *Utah raster toolkit*. Spencer Thomas gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF objects*, /pub/misc/graf-bib - *graphics bibliographies (incomplete)*. Randi Rost abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]: /amiga - DBW, /usenet/comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga/volume90/applications - DKBTrace 2.01. expo.lcs.mit.edu [18.30.0.212]: contrib - *pbm.tar.Z portable bitmap package*, *poskbitmaptars bitmap collection*, *Raveling Img*, xloadimage. Jef Poskanzer 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 ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*. 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 irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, /NFF - many non-SPD NFF format scenes. Didier Badouel 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 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. 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 ============================================================================== From: Jari Toivanen jyu.fi [?.?.?.?]: /pub/graphics/ray-tracers - VM_pRAYjul90, dbw_render, dist_render, dkbtrace2, fritzztracer, mini-ray, mtv2, obfus.ray, ohta-tracer, pray, prt, ps.raytracer, qrt15, ray-trace.shortest, ray.2.0, rayshade.3.0.patched.1-5, rpi-tracer ============================================================================== From: Clas Tegenfeldt or [Mr. Tegenfeldt gave me a number of references that were in Eric Haines' list. These two, however, were not there. I'm not sure exactly what is at these sights. I've not, as yet, had a chance to rumage through them. I encourage others interested in ray tracing to take a look around and share what they find with the rest of us.] maeglin.mt.luth.se [?.?.?.?] tolsun.oulu.fi [?.?.?.?] ============================================================================== From: William K. Karwin [Mr. Karwin mailed me a number of things dealing with ray tracing. There is a large, fairly detailed list of the things to be found at iear.arts.rpi.edu [128.113.6.10] originally compiled and posted by George Kyriazis . I would have posted it with this, but I thought that this thing is going to be big enough without my adding 30 zillion megabytes to it :-). However, if you would like a copy of it, let me know, and I'll be happy to mail it you. If there is enough interest, I might post it later on. In addition to George's posting, Mr. Frank Bennett posted a brief description of a number of raytracing programs a while back that Mr. Karwin was kind enough to send me. I was able to find all the programs he listed in Mr. Haines' information with the exception of the following two.] o Dante, Eric Haines, 3DEYE & Hewlett Packard - Build a model & view it in "real time" using polygons or NURBS, then go get a raytraced or Radiosity rendition of the scene. The only tracer I know which will trace Bspline patches. o Wavefront - Build a model, animate it ( that is get the key frames right ), use splines to get the inbetweening right, then ask for raytraced frames of interest. [Any information on the location of Dante and Wavefront (if they are FTPable from a PD site) would be helpful.] ============================================================================== From: Bob Kieffer [Mr. Kieffer wrote to me about some of the things he was aware of. These are not available at an FTP site, though you may want to contact him if you are interested in either of his suggestions.] The only offer I can make to your collection however, is a primative application I wrote in ForTran about two years ago. The program allows you to specify triangles in 3-D space along with an RGB value for each. You then specify a set of rotations about each of the three axis', and the viewing distance parameters and the program creates a hidden-surface view. Not really a 'ray-tracer', but as close as I've come across. The only other suggestion I can make is an application we have here that comes as part of the demo software for the NeXT machine called "ray.app" (clever, huh?). I don't really have a way to send it to you, nor do I have the source for it, but it exists and seems to do a modest ray-trace." ****************************************************************************** Well, I'd just like to thank: Eric Haines Thierry Leconte Mike Muuss Jari Toivanen Monisha Guglani George Kyriazis Adrian F. Clark Bob Kieffer Mike Castle {Nexus} Jeff Prothero Jeff Hanson Clas Tegenfeldt or Eli Brandt Peter Budgell Bernie Kirby Frank Bennett [Graphics Technology Division, Hewlett Packard. I'm afraid I don't have his e-mail address.] To all... enjoy. -Andy ******************************************************************************* * Harold G. "Andy" Andrews II, 1Lt, USAF * "Many the man whose punctuality * * andrewsh@lonex.radc.af.mil * serves only to warm his chair." * * Rome Laboratory/IRRE * * * Griffiss AFB, NY 13441-5700 * - Leonard somebody-or-other * * (315) 330-7788 (AVN Prfx 587) * (Not an official USAF viewpoint) * *******************************************************************************