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.
• POVRay, a free ray tracer. This one is popular with hobbyists.
• Radiance by Greg Ward. Very high quality.

Reference Materials

• ACM Graphics Bibliography by Stephen Spencer
• Link to ACM Journals, proceedings, etc. through UNC Library. Proxy service from off-campus.  See http://proxy.lib.unc.edu/setupinfo.html.
• BRDF Class with Links by Pete Shirley
• Global Illumination Compendium by Philip Dutré.
• Local copy of SIGGRAPH course notes.

Shading Resources

• RenderMan documentation at Pixar.
  • RenderMan interface specification
  • Links
• RManNotes by Steve May. A RenderMan shader tutorial.
• Update: BMRT is no longer available.  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
• http://www.cgshaders.org/ and http://developer.nvidia.com/.  A set of Cg tutorial examples in here.
• OpenGL 2.0

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. 
• Tim Rowley has made pages for S2000, S2001, and S2002 and other conferences. Note that you (UNC students) can get to all the SIGGRAPH papers through the UNC library web pages.
• 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.
• www.3dlinks.com --  site with a lot of links to models, etc. Artistic rather than technical material.
• www.greatbuildings.com -- I just found this and haven't had a chance to look too much.  They seem to have many models of buildings.  The detail of the models varies.
• Graphics Gems Repository -- code from the Graphics Gems series of books.