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From: erich@eye.com (Eric Haines)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Can we raytrace a "lens"?
Message-ID: <1991Feb08.141458.2479@eye.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 14:14:58 GMT
References: <1110@cthulhuControl.COM> <1991Feb7.141936.1054@truevision.com>
Sender: Eric Haines
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In article <1991Feb7.141936.1054@truevision.com> bobz@truevision.com (Bob Zigon) writes:
>Where can I get a copy of VORT?

In the past month I've seen quite a few requests for FTP sites for ray tracing
related stuff, so here's my latest list.  Look for Harold Andrews II's
compilation list of FTP sites for ray tracers (to be posted here soon), but
until that time this should tide you over.  Please do send me corrections &
additions.


Ray Tracing related FTP sites (and maintainers), 2/4/91
	compiled by Eric Haines, erich@eye.com

(*) means site is an "official" distributor, so is most up to date.

weedeater.math.yale.edu [130.132.23.17]:  /pub - *Rayshade 3.0 ray tracer*,
	*color quantization code*, *SPD*, *RT News*, *new Utah raster
	toolkit*, newer FBM, *Graphics Gems code*.  Craig Kolb <kolb@yale.edu>

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>

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>

hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16]: /pub/graphics/Comp.graphics - best of
	comp.graphics (very extensive), ray-tracers - DBW, MTV, QRT, and more.
	Joe Dellinger <joe@hanauma.stanford.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. <may be unreachable temporarily>

alfred.ccs.carleton.ca [134.117.1.1]:  /pub/dkbtrace - *DKB ray tracer*.
	David Buck <david_buck@carleton.ca>

uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2]:  /graphics - RT News back issues (not complete),
	other graphics related material.

iear.arts.rpi.edu [128.113.6.10]:  /pub - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*.
	qrt, ohta's ray tracer, other RT's (including one for the AT&T Pixel
	Machine), RT News, Graphics Gems, wave ray tracing using digital
	filter method, Numerical Recipes code.  George Kyriazis
	<kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu>

life.pawl.rpi.edu [128.113.10.2]: /pub/ray - *Kyriazis stochastic Ray Tracer*.
	George Kyriazis <kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.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>

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>

abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]: /amiga - DBW,
	/usenet/comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga/volume90/applications -
	DKBTrace 2.01.  <ftp@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov>

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>

irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]:  */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, /NFF - many non-SPD NFF
	format scenes.  Didier Badouel <badouel@irisa.irisa.fr>

wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]:  /mirrors/unix-c/graphics - Rayshade ray
	tracer, MTV ray tracer, Vort ray tracer, FBM, PBM, popi, Utah raster
	toolkit.  /mirrors/msdos/graphics - DKB ray tracer.

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>

surya.waterloo.edu [129.97.129.72]: /graphics - FBM, ray tracers

ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*.

vega.hut.fi [128.214.3.82]: /graphics - RTN archive, ray tracers (MTV, QRT,
	others), NFF, some models

gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.1.63]:  SPD, NFF & OFF databases, Graphics Gems
	code.  Bernie Kirby <bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au>

hp4nl.nluug.nl [192.16.202.2]: /pub/graphics/raytrace - DBW.microray, MTV,
	etc.

ftp.brl.mil [128.63.16.158]: /old/brl-cad - information on how to get the
	BRL CAD package & ray tracer.

netlib automatic mail replier:  UUCP - research!netlib, Internet -
	netlib@ornl.gov.  *SPD package*, *polyhedra databases*.  Send one
	line message "send index" for more info, "send haines from graphics"
	to get the SPD.

UUCP archive: avatar - RT News back issues.  For details, write Kory Hamzeh
	<kory@avatar.avatar.com>