[comp.archives] [ray-tracing-news] Ray Tracing FTP site list

emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (04/03/90)

Archive-name: ray-trace-ftp-sites/23-Mar-90

Excerpted from Ray Tracing News, volume 3 number 2, with permisssion.

Compiled by Eric Haines, 3D/Eye Inc, 2359 Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850
    wrath.cs.cornell.edu!eye!erich

FTP Site List, by Eric Haines

This is my own collection of sites which have ftp-able software or documents
that have some relevance to ray tracer.  If you don't know how to use ftp, see
Didier Badouel's article in this issue for an example.  Recall that it's
considered polite to download large amounts of stuff only after business
hours.  If a site has a software name with asterisks around it (e.g. *RT
News*), this means that the site is the "home" of this stuff (or is updated
often enough by the site that the site's offering is usually the most current
version).  The archive manager (more or less) is listed at the end of each
entry.  Please do send on any corrections or clarifications you have.  Sites
are always changing, so please do keep me posted.  I'm not going to bother
with "gif" image file sites (though they are useful for texturing), as the
list would double in size.  The sites below are listed more or less in the
order of most to least extensive ray-trace related material stored.

Mark VandeWettering's MTV ray tracer was posted to comp.sources.unix and is
postings v18i070-072.  Sid Grange's ray tracer is v05i046.  Craig Kolb's
RayShade has just been posted to comp.sources.unix, v21i008.  Note: patch4
is now available for RayShade.

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.

weedeater.math.yale.edu [130.132.23.17]:  *Rayshade 3.0 ray tracer*, *color
	quantization code*, Utah raster toolkit, newer FBM.  Craig Kolb
	<kolb@yale.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, other graphics
	related material.

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

geomag.gly.fsu.edu [128.186.10.2]:  /pub/pics/DBW.src and DBW.microray.src -
	*DBW Render source*, ray traced images.  Prem Subramanyan
	<prem@geomag.fsu.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>

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>

curie.cs.unc.edu [128.109.136.157]:  /pub - DBW, pbmplus, /pub/graphics - vort.
	Jeff Butterworth <butterwo@cs.unc.edu>

irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]:  */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, /NFF - some non-SPD NFF
	format scenes.  Didier Badouel <badouel@irisa.irisa.fr>

hc.dspo.gov [192.12.184.4]:  {have never connected} Images?

netlib automatic mail replier:  UUCP - research!netlib, Internet -
	netlib@ornl.gov.  *SPD package*, *polyhedra databases*.  Send one
	line message "send index" for more info.

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


Non-sites (places which used to have graphics stuff, but do no longer):

albanycs.albany.edu [128.204.1.4]: no longer carries graphics stuff
nl.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.222.56]: /usr/mlm/ftp/fbm.tar.Z - not found.  Michael
	Maudlin <mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu>
panarea.usc.edu [128.125.3.54](not found?): archive for maps?