andrewsh@lonex.radc.af.mil (Harold G. Andrews II) (02/09/91)
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.
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From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@uu.psi.com>
[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 <kolb@yale.edu>
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
<markv@acm.princeton.edu>
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.
alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]: /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer*.
David Buck <david_buck@carleton.ca>
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
<kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
life.pawl.rpi.edu [128.113.10.2]: /pub/ray - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*.
George Kyriazis <kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
xanth.cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1]: /amiga/dbw.zoo - DBW Render for the Amiga (zoo
format). Tad Guy <tadguy@cs.odu.edu>
munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21]: */pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z - CSG and algebraic
surface ray tracer*, /pub - DBW, pbmplus. David Hook
<dgh@munnari.oz.au>
cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - *Utah raster toolkit*. Spencer Thomas
<thomas@cs.utah.edu>
gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF objects*,
/pub/misc/graf-bib - *graphics bibliographies (incomplete)*. Randi
Rost <rost@granite.dec.com>
abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]: /amiga - DBW,
/usenet/comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga/volume90/applications -
DKBTrace 2.01. <ftp@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov>
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>
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 <sam@okeeffe.berkeley.edu>
irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, /NFF - many non-SPD NFF
format scenes. Didier Badouel <badouel@irisa.irisa.fr>
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.
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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From: Jari Toivanen <tene@euler.jyu.fi>
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
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From: Clas Tegenfeldt <tegen@isy.liu.se> or <tegen@jack.isy.liu.se>
[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 [?.?.?.?]
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From: William K. Karwin <billk@ucscc.UCSC.EDU>
[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 <kyriazis@rdrc.rpi.edu>. 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.]
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From: Bob Kieffer <kieffer@spf.trw.com>
[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."
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Well, I'd just like to thank:
Eric Haines <eye!erich@uu.psi.com>
Thierry Leconte <Thierry.Leconte@irisa.fr>
Mike Muuss <mike@BRL.MIL>
Jari Toivanen <tene@euler.jyu.fi>
Monisha Guglani <csmoe@mtsu.edu>
George Kyriazis <kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu>
Adrian F. Clark <alien@essex.ac.uk>
Bob Kieffer <kieffer@spf.trw.com>
Mike Castle {Nexus} <mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu>
Jeff Prothero <jsp@glia.biostr.washington.edu>
Jeff Hanson <tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov>
Clas Tegenfeldt <tegen@isy.liu.se> or <tegen@jack.isy.liu.se>
Eli Brandt <eli@smectos.gang.umass.edu>
Peter Budgell <peter@engrg.uwo.ca>
Bernie Kirby <bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au>
Frank Bennett [Graphics Technology Division, Hewlett Packard. I'm
afraid I don't have his e-mail address.]
To all... enjoy.
-Andy
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* Harold G. "Andy" Andrews II, 1Lt, USAF * "Many the man whose punctuality *
* andrewsh@lonex.radc.af.mil * serves only to warm his chair." *
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