Graphics Resources

Ray Tracing

• Ray Tracing Bibiography by Eric Haines.
• Ray Tracing News, edited by Eric Haines.
• Ray Tracing: Graphics for the Masses by Paul Rademacher
• Rayshade, by Craig Kolb and Rod Bogart. A free ray tracer with source code.

Reference Materials

• ACM Graphics Bibliography by Stephen Spencer
• Link to ACM Journals, proceedings, etc. through UNC Library
• BRDF Class with Links by Pete Shirley
• Global Illumination Compendium by Philip Dutré.
• Local copy of SIGGRAPH course notes and papers.

RenderMan Resources

• RenderMan documentation at Pixar.
  • User Manual
  • Notes on RenderMan Companion tutorial
  • RenderMan interface specification
  • Documentation on programs
• RManNotes by Steve May. A RenderMan shader tutorial.
• Blue Moon Rendering Tools by Larry Gritz. A free renderer with a RenderMan-like interface.
• Renderman Repository by Tal Lancaster. A collection of all sorts of things, such as shaders and RIB models
• BMRT tutorials (part 1, part 2) from the Linux Gazette

Misc.

• Many links on book page for Real-Time Rendering by Thomas Möller and Eric Haines.
• Siggraph 99 papers on the web by Frédo Durand. Also S97, S98 and many other links.
• Many links on graphics and game development.
• GLSetup, a program to help set up 3D graphics hardware device drivers.
• RenderPark, an interesting renderer from Leuven.
• Rendering tutorial in Java by Jeff Hoye.

Updated 11/25/00 , lastra@cs.unc.edu.