Favourite Links
Computers: Graphics
- http://sketchup.google.com - Google SketchUp (3D modeling program)
- http://www.kerkythea.net - Kerkythea (a standalone renderer, using physically accurate materials and lights)
- http://www.habware.at/duck.htm - Free 3DStudio Max PlugIns
- http://www.cuneytozdas.com - Free 3DStudio Max PlugIns
- http://www.effectware.com - Free 3DStudio Max PlugIns & Scripts
- http://www.max3d.com - Max3D
- http://www.hylas.com - Hylas (search engine for digital imaging)
- http://www.gurusnetwork.com - Gurus Network (tutorials on photoshop, povray etc.)
- http://www.handson.nu - HandsOn (photoshop tutorials)
- http://www.tema.ru/p/h/o/t/o/s/h/o/p/ - Photoshop Professional Tips & Tricks
- http://www.gimp.org - General Image Manipulation Program
- http://www.cygnus-software.com - Fractal Extreme
- http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html - Fractint
- http://www.ultrafractal.com - Ultra Fractal
- http://xaos.sourceforge.net - XaoS (a fast interactive real-time fractal zoomer and morpher)
- http://www.apophysis.org - Apophysis (freeware fractal flame editor for Windows)
- http://www.chaospro.de - ChaosPro (freeware fractal generator for Windows)
- http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/home.htm - Clifford Pickover's home page
- http://spanky.triumf.ca - The Spanky Fractal Database (images, info & Fractint home)
- http://www.fractalus.com/ifl/ - The Infinite Fractal Loop (a ring of Fractal galleries)
- http://www.irfanview.com - IrfanView (image viewer)
- http://www.xnview.com - XnView (freeware graphic file viewer and converter)
- http://www.digi-element.com - World Builder home page
- http://www.wingimp.org - GTk+ and GIMP for Windows
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/pixie/ - Pixie (a GPL photorealistic renderer that uses a RenderMan-like interface)
- http://www.povray.org - POVRay home page
- http://www.povworld.org - The POV-Ray Objects Collection
- http://www.irtc.org - The Internet Raytracing Competition
- http://www.blender.org - Blender (GPL, cross-platform, 3D graphics program)
- http://brlcad.org - BRL-CAD (cross-platform, open source solid modeling system)
- http://quicktime.apple.com - Quicktime home page
- http://www.cgw.com - Computer Graphics World
- http://www.computerarts.co.uk - Computer Arts Magazine
- http://www.grafx-design.com/tutorials.html - Graphics tutorials
- http://www.tutorialwiz.com - TutorialWiz.com (a Photoshop tutorial site)
- http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cgx.html - Computer Graphics Links
- http://www.ora.com/centers/gff/index.htm - Encyclopedia of Graphic File Formats
- http://home.wanadoo.nl/laurens.lapre/lparser.html - LParser home page
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8764/lmuse/lmuse.html - LMuse home page
- http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~pwp/ - Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (papers on LSystems etc.)
- http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~jslayton/software.html - Wilbur and other DEM & terrain stuff
- http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ - Terragen (Landscape generator)
- http://www.scitechsoft.com - MGL home page
- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mpeg-faq/ - MPEG FAQ
- http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/mpeg2faq.html - MPEG-2 FAQ
- http://www.divx.com - DivX home (MPEG4 codec)
- http://www.divx-digest.com - DivX Digest (articles & software)
- http://www.digital-digest.com - Digital Digest (DVD & DivX)
- http://www.projectmayo.com - Project Mayo (OpenDivX)
- http://www.doom9.net - Doom9 (DivX, DVD & VCD guides, faqs & software)
- http://www.dvd2svcd.org - DVD2SVCD
- http://www.dvdshrink.org - DVD Shrink (backup DVDs by recompressing)
- http://www.dvdidle.com - DVD Region+CSS Free and DVDFab (for backing up DVDs)
- http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm - DVDFab Decrypter (copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections)
- http://simpledivx.org - SimpleDivX (convert DVD to DivX, XviD etc.)
- http://www.any-dvd-converter.com/products/for_video/ - Any Video Converter
- http://www.virtualdub.org - Virtual Dub (video convertor)
- http://jahshaka.org - Jahshaka (video editor)
- http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ - Avidemux (a free, cross-platform video editor for simple cutting, filtering and encoding)
- http://handbrake.fr - HandBrake (GPL, crossplatform, DVD to MPEG-4 converter)
- http://www.tmpgenc.net - TMPG Enc (Tsunami MPEG Encoder)
- http://go.to/flaskmpeg - FlaskMPEG (DVD grabber)
- http://dvdx.sourceforge.net - DVDx (convert DVDs to DivX, VCD, SVCD)
- http://www.xmpeg.net - XMPEG (MPEG/DVD to DivX, DVD, SVCD, VCD convertor)
- http://divfixpp.sourceforge.net - DivFix++ (checks and repairs broken AVI files by rebuilding the index)
- http://www.fourcc.org - The Almost Definitive FOURCC Definition List (Four Character Codes to identify video format in an AVI)
- http://www.headbands.com/gspot - GSpot (establishes what video codecs are required to play an AVI file)
- http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en - MediaInfo (displays technical and tag information for video or audio files)
- http://mp4ui.sourceforge.net - mp4UI (MP4 file tool for conversion)
- http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ - PNG home page
- http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ - W3C SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
- http://www.adobe.com/svg/ - Adobe SVG plugin
- http://xml.apache.org/batik/ - Batik (Java based toolkit & viewer for SVG)
- http://www.inkscape.org - Inkscape (a GPL cross platform SVG editor)
- http://tpx.sourceforge.net - TpX (a simple TeX/SVG/PS drawing program)
- http://www.3dcafe.com - 3D Cafe (models, textures, tutorials)
- http://www.3dsource.net - 3D Source (news, tutorials)
- http://shape.cs.princeton.edu - Princeton 3D Model Search Engine (draw out a shape to search for)
- http://textures.forrest.cz - Texture Library (free textures & bump maps)
- http://www.scantips.com - A few scanning tips
- http://lspwww.epfl.ch/~victor/ - Victor Ostromoukhov's home page (papers on Computer Graphics, Digital Halftoning etc.)
- http://www.khoral.com - Khoros (image processing)
- http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/Analyzer/ - Image Analyzer (free image porcessing program for editing, enhancement and analysis)
- http://codecs.nm.ru - Video Codecs
- http://mayavi.sourceforge.net - The MayaVi Data Visualizer (a free scientific data visualizer written in Python with VTK & Tkinter)
- http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~harrism/ - Mark Harris' Real-Time Graphics Research (clouds, radiosity, simulation)
- http://www.reallyslick.com - Really Slick Screensavers (freeware OpenGL screensavers for Windows)
- http://www.fontifier.com - Fontifier (creates a custom TTF font from your scanned handwriting)
- http://www.ldraw.org - LDraw (an open standard for LEGO CAD programs that allow the user to create virtual LEGO models and scenes)
- http://www.picasa.com - Picasa (photo cataloging and search with simple editing features)
- http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ - Wax (a video compositing program with 2D & 3D special effects)
- http://graphviz.org - Graphviz (open source graph visualization software, can generate SVG, PDF, etc.)
- http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html - ArtRage (free natural media painting program for windows & mac)
- http://www.artweaver.de - Artweaver (a freeware program for creative painting)
- http://imageenlarger.sourceforge.net - SmillaEnlarger (a graphical tool to magnify bitmaps at high quality)
- http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/hypergraph.htm - HyperGraph (SIGGRAPH online books and papers)
- http://www6.plala.or.jp/nyk/index_en.html - PicGL & PicMv (graphic viewer and digital camera transfer tool)
- http://www.scene.org/awards.php - Demo Scene Awards
- http://mmk.f4.fhtw-berlin.de/?page_id=40/lang-pref/en/ - ImageSorter (an image browser that sorts images by color)
http://www.cpr.demon.nl/prog_plotf.html - ExposurePlot (freeware utility to analyze EXIF info in JPGs for usage of focal length, ISO, aperture and shutterspeed)- http://www.tuxpaint.org - Tux Paint (a GPL drawing program for children)
- http://www.clipartconnection.com - Free Clipart
- http://www.barrysclipart.com - Free Clipart
- http://www.openclipart.org - Open Clip Art Library (archive of free SVG clip art)
- http://www.wpclipart.com - WPClipart (public domain images for use in word processors)
- http://www.morguefile.com - morgueFile (free photos)
- http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/pivot.html - Pivot (makes simple stick-man animations)
- http://www.vaxxine.com/apenner/ - BezierDraw (a program to help produce geometrical designs)
- http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/products/index.html - Project Dogwaffle (a paintbox program with natural media tools)
- http://photobatch.stani.be - Phatch (cross-platform photo batch processor written in python)
- http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ - WhatTheFont (figures out the font from an uploaded image)
- http://windjview.sourceforge.net - WinDjView (a GPL, fast, compact and powerful DjVu viewer for Windows)
- http://cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/spiro.pl/spiro.html - Spiro (Java applet for drawing Spirographs)
- http://openfontlibrary.org - Open Font Library (free fonts that may be used, changed and shared freely)