Computer Graphics

General information

	alt.binaries.pictures FAQ - how to view different picture formats
	comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions - also availabe using ftp
	CGW: THE MAGAZINE
	Fractal Image Encoding
	Computer Graphics FAQ lists
	Siggraph Online - Siggraph documents and information
	Technical Drawing Resources
	USENET FAQs on Computer Graphics - frequenly asked questions and answers

Basic concepts

	An Explanation of Monitor Gamma
	Imaging Concepts Explained - what are composition space and balance in picture
	ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation project - project is producing a modular set of training materials for the Higher Education community
	Linear Algebra Webnotes
	Paul Heckbert home page - computer graphics papers and source code
	Sampling, aliasing, and antialiasing - lecture notes
	The Multimedia Workshop - information concerning multimedia in general

On-line books and guides

	GFX Computer Graphics Programming
	GRAFICA Obscura - volving computer graphics notebook
	How do Computer Wizards do that? - covers many aspecs of graphics programming in DOS using C, also available at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/1183/
	Princeton graphics info files - GraphicsGems sourcesodes, rayshade, papers
	The Pilot European Image Processing Archive: Home Page

Image scanning

	Scanning guide
	Optimizing Photo CD scan for prepress and publishing

Graphics algorithms

	Algorithm Inc. Graphics pages
	comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions - also archived in UK
	Lighting and Shading - teching material
	Texture Potential Mapping - methods of overcoming aliasing problems which result from point to point texture mapping
	The Midpoint Algorithm for High Speed Graphics - fast true perspective texture mapping such as Doom, Descent and Quake
	THE SPANKY FRACTAL DATABASE - collection of fractals and fractal related material

Curves and surfaces

	Fitting Smooth Surfaces to Dense Polygon Meshes - SIGGRAPH '96 proceedings
	GEOLAB Technical Reports - surface modelling papers
	Introduction to NURBS
	Minimum Curvature Variation - Curves, Networks, and Surfaces for Fair Free-Form Shape Design
	NURB Curves: A Guide for the Uninitiated
	Terrain Modelling in Virtual Worlds

3D graphics

	3D Artists - latest pictures, interviews, tutorials, resumes
	3D Graphics: Realism and Reality on the Hardware Frontier - introduction to 3D graphics on computers
	Creating Depth in a 2-Dimensional Surface
	FAQs on Fog
	Quaternions - ftp archive of quaternion material
	The StereoGraphics Handbook
	The Geometry Junkyard Polyhedra and Polytopes
	Unfolding 3D objects - suource code can be get using ftp, read also readme file and folding paper

Ray tracing

	Radiosity Library - radiosity, lighting and computer graphics documents
	Ray Tracing News - electronic computer graphics newsletter archive

Color in computer graphics

	Alpha channel in computer graphics
	A note on Display Gamma
	CIE 1976 UCS Chromaticity Diagram - checl also other source with better image quality
	Colour Space Conversions
	Colour in Computer Graphics
	Color Image Quantization
	COLOR IMAGE QUANTIZATION FOR FRAME BUFFER DISPLAY by Paul S. Heckbert
	COLOR SCIENCE
	COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IMAGE SYNTHESIS: Color Quantization
	Converting RGB to CMYK - conversion to the four-color space used on the printing press
	Device-Directed Rendering - produce an image that is guaranteed to be in display device color gamut
	FAQ: Viewing Pictures
	International Color Consortium Profile Format
	Minnesota Supercomputer Center Color information - Human Perception Of Color and TV color systems
	NeuQuant: Fast High-Quality Image Quantization
	Poynton's Color Technology Page - Gamma and Color FAQs, adjustments of a video monitor
	WWW Colourmap - colour palette for selecting WWW-page colours

Graphics and animation file formats information

General file format sites Graphics: specifications for various graphics file formats - bitmaps, geometry, animation, utilities Graphics File Formats Page Graphics viewers, editors, utilities and info Wosit's formats - The File Format Collection 2D pixel graphics formats comp.compression FAQ - info on compression and basic info on graphics formats which use compression Graphic File Formats - 2D graphics formats Portable Network Graphics - PNG file format Quick facts: What you need to know about PNG - The Portable Network Graphics Specification promises to replace the GIF file format -- here's the background info you need Raster Graphic Interchange Standards TGA file format The Graphics File Formats Page: 2D Bitmap Specifications - almost all common formats The Unofficial TIFF Home Page - information and source code Understanding JPEG Image Compression Animation file formats 2D / 3D Animation File Formats GIF animation on the WWW - how to add animation to your WWW-pages Video formats MPEG, AVI and animation files Tomi Engdahl Multimedia Page - lots of computer video file format information Vector file formats An Introduction to HP-GL/2 Graphics - plotter control language Autocad DXF file format - check also Delphi code to read and display DXF files Misc AutoCAD info + tools

Standards

	ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24: Computer Graphics and Image Processing
	OpenGL information from Silicon Graphics
	OpenGL for 3D Color Graphics Programming - Windows relatedinformation
	The OpenGL WWW Pages

Programming information

	3D Graphic Engines - texture mapping, Doom/Wolfstein engines, landscape rendering
	3-D Information for the programmer
	Azure imaging library - C++ image toolkit, also some other graphics toolkits on same page
	Bob's Rants anrticles from PCVR magazine - VESA programming, polygon drawing, texture mapping, VGA tweaking
	Computer demo effect source code
	Flicker Free Animation
	Game Programmer - - a web site for Game Programming oriented graphics programming techniques
	Graphics Gems source code - nice collection of sources codes from Graphic Gems books
	JPEG implementation source code - also available at ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6a.tar.gz
	Materials and Geometry Format Parser and Examples - 3DS-MGF converter and other utilies
	OpenGL Utility Toolkit
	Programming information in ftp.eng.ufl.edu
	Programming information in x2ftp.oulu.fi- best source for PC programming sources and documents
	SQRT(-1) Coding - graphics coding, demo effects in C++
	The radix sorting algorithm
	TIFFLIB - TIFF library which contains all official supported compression algorithms
	VESA Home Page - PC graphics hardware standards like VBE 2.0

Software

3D 3-D Graphics Software - 3D modellers and related tools 3D Studio File Previewer - can be used with web browser Font F/X -shareware Windows program for generating rendered 3D texts Raytracers - POV, Rayshade, etc. Image file converters Alchemy Mindworks software Artwork Conversion Software - CAD Translators, Postprocessors and Plotter Drivers Image Alchemy demo page - picture format conversion tool IMTOOLS - imconv tool source code, converts between very many file formats Image file viewers Display for DOS - many image and animation formats Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview - postscript viewer SPLOT - tool intended for simulating the HP-GL/2, HP-GL or DXY-GL plotters on the display of your PC TIFNY - automated interface to the images in the USENET newsgroups WEBPlotter - HP-GL/2 and HP-GL plugin Image processing UTHSCSA ImageTool - free image processing and analysis program for Microsoft Windows Vista - free software environment for computer vision research XITE - X-based Image Processing Tools and Environment Misc Clippoly Directory of Computational Geometry Software ImgLib - 32-bit Windows DLL for reading graphics formats like BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PCX, Photo CD, and others,royalty-free shareware InFocus Free Stuff - software and clipart, powerpoint templates Softy 1.05 - font editor for windows Texture Magic - create textures for ray tracing Wavelet Image Compression Construction Kit - implements a wavelet transform-based image coder for grayscale images

Information links

Usenet FAQs

Graphics resources

	3-D Object Archives
	3D Cafe - 3D models, news, software
	Avalon
	Chris's Chamber - computrt graphics links: articles, software, source code, links, companies
	Cowhouse computer graphics links
	Cyberpoint - one stop source for 3D mesh objects
	FREE ART website - fonts
	Scriptorium - type and art resources
	The KnotPlot Site
	Maps and Reference
	The Visible Human Project - human anatomy
	WholeBody Sample Datasets

Selected companies

	3D Scanners
	Digibotics - 3D scanning
	Image Alchemy
	Zephyr Software

Misc

	Depth Measurement of Face and Palate by Structured Light
	Latest Meteosat CRS4 Data - weather pictures from satellite and Meteorogical image processing