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?