bcorrie@uvicctr.UUCP (Brian Corrie) (01/18/89)
I am looking for ftp sites for object databases of any sort, as long
as some sort of conversion can be performed to use it with my ray
tracer. My ray tracer supports spheres, arbitrary polygons, and quadric
surfaces. Any format is acceptable as long as a clear description of
the format is available.
I already have Eric Haines nff database, as well as some of the other
standards such as the teapot, x29, vw, goblet etc. Any information
on ftp sites with these and other goodies on them would be greatly
appreciated. There must be somebody out there who has been compiling
an object database of some type. Sorry if this has been asked before,
(it seems like it could fall into the ``Most asked question of the
month'' category), but I haven't seen any ftp sites for object
databases that I can recall, and if I did, they most definitely
got lost in the byte shuffle of my limited disk space.
I would really like to get some complex databases (of the magnitude
of some of the nice images published in SIGGRAPH). I find these beasties
are incredibly difficult to construct, and I HATE to do more work than
I have to.
If someone has a list of sites they may want to post it. If not,
I will make a list and post it as soon as possible (assuming I get
at least 1 response). Thanks folks.
BTW - Does anyone have a nice database for the VW. Mine has lots of
holes in it. I wouldn't want to ride in that BUG in a blizzard.
Brian
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Brian Corrie, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Under the most rigourously controlled conditions of pressure,
temperature, volume, humidity and other variables, the organism
will do as it damn well pleases.
Sounds like some of the code I have written!!!!! 8^)
Don't worry, I know nothing of what I babble about.......