Links to Online Resources

Link Directories

• dmoz/Graphics — comprehensive directory from the Open Directory Project
• Yahoo/Graphics — a somewhat smaller directory from Yahoo!
• Real-Time Rendering — online companion to Real-Time Rendering by Tomas Möller and Eric Haines.
• NPR Resources — a survey of non-photorealistic rendering resources maintained by Craig Reynolds

OpenGL Programming

• OpenGL — the home of OpenGL
• Mesa — a free implementation of an OpenGL work-alike
• Advanced OpenGL Techniques — tutorial course from SIGGRAPH 1999
• OpenGL Tips — “way cool, way fast OpenGL” from Mark Kilgard
• Nate Robins tutorials — nice collection of programs that interactively demonstrate the behavior of OpenGL
• NeHe Productions — a popular collection of OpenGL examples

GUI Toolkits

• FLTK — cross-platform toolkit with good OpenGL support
• GLUT — standard but minimal OpenGL cross-platform toolkit
• freeglut — Open Source reimplementation of GLUT
• GLUI — implements typical GUI widgets with OpenGL in GLUT windows
• GLOW — another OpenGL-based widget set
• PUI — similar in spirit to GLUI
• GLGooey — another widgets-in-OpenGL library
• Cpw — application framework for OpenGL programs (Windows only)

Surface Mesh Libraries

• OpenMesh
• CGAL
• GNU Triangulated Surface Library

Numerical Libraries

• newmat
• TNT — Template Numerical Toolkit
• GSL — GNU Scientific Library

Image Formats

• Wotsit’s List — A fairly comprehensive list of image file formats.
• libtiff — Library for reading TIFF files [loss-less]
• libpng — Library for reading PNG files [loss-less]
• jpeglib — Library for reading JPEG files [lossy]
• NetPBM — Software tools for PBM (bitmap), PGM (grayscale), and PPM (color) files [uncompressed]
• Berkeley MPEG Tools — can take multiple image files and bake them together into an MPEG video stream

Model Formats

• Wotsit’s List — as with the image formats, a rather comprehensive list
• PLYtools — Greg Turk’s code for working with PLY files
• ply 1.1 — an older version of the PLY library from Stanford
• trimesh — a C++ library for working with PLY files from Szymon Rusinkiewicz [not quite as general as the libraries above]
• lib3ds — for reading 3D studio files
• dxflib — for reading DXF models

Surface Models

• Avalon — a fairly large repository of (mostly) free surface models
• Stanford model repository — a collection of models scanned at the Stanford Graphics Lab
• Large model repository — another model collection at Georgia Tech
• 3D Cafe — a computer graphics site that has links to interesting models

General Resources

• Color Technology — nice articles by Charles Poynton on display gamma and color spaces.
• GRAFICA Obscura — an interesting collection of articles by Paul Haeberli

Renderers

• POV Ray
• Rayshade
• RADIANCE