• The comp.graphics.algorithms newsgroup.

OpenGL

• OpenGL.org - discussion boards, ARB
• The OpenGL Web Site - at SGI. Many links in all categories. (Broken)
• Supposedly useful stuff for OpenGL Games Developers - Invaluable. (Broken)

• Reference

  • OpenGL - Documents - at SGI: White papers, overview, man pages, the official 1.1 spec, Extensions, OpenGL on Windows user's guide, OpenGL on SGIs, and Books on OpenGL
  • OpenGL Game Programming Faq - hosted on 3dGameDev.com - which has other OpenGL Game development information
  • The EFnet #OpenGL FAQ
  • SGI - OpenGL Technical Information

• Extensions

  • OpenGL Extensions
  • OpenGL Extensions Registry
  • Druid's GL Journal - check out extension support tables
  • S3TC: OpenGL Extensions
  • OpenGL - getting high performance using Compiled Vertex Arrays (CVA)
  • Hard to find extensions

• Techniques and Effects

  • Lighting and Shading Techniques for Interactive Applications and Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL - In August, these courses were presented at the 1999 SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles, California.
  • NVIDIA Developer info
  • Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL
  • Nicholas Anderson's Projects - Terrain rendering under OpenGL, under GPL
  • Nate Robins - OpenGL - Has articles such as Fast Soft Shadow Generation
  • SIGGRAPH '97 Course Notes - Overlays and Underlays

• Tutorials

  • OpenGL Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company): Table of Contents
  • Nate Robins OpenGL Tutors - interative tutorial programs
  • Ryan's OpenGL Page - has dynamic linking code and good Win32 samples.
  • Nate Miller: Main Page, OpenGL Tutor
  • Angus Dorbie's Performer Pages
  • Lucian Wischik: Programming - OpenGL source for dealing with pixel formats, also has some DirectDraw/DIB code and C++Builder
  • glGameDeveloper - Windows OpenGL tutorials plus other game related info
  • NeHe OpenGL tutorials

• Downloads

  • GLUT - HTML Documentation
  • OpenGL: Advanced Rendering Demo Programs - demonstrates techniques from SigGraph96 using OpenGL
  • OpenGL - binary of alt.software inc.'s Mesa-3.0 DirectX 6 Driver

• Text

  • An OpenGL-based API for texture mapped text - by Mark Kilgard
  • GLTT - "allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in any OpenGL application"
  • broken?
  • glTexFont

• GLSetup Home Page (Alternate)
• Chris Hecker's Home Page - OpenGL, Physics, Texture mapping, and Game Developer Magazine articles
• Avoiding 16 Common OpenGL Pitfalls
• OpenGL Win32 Tutorial
• Multipipe Direct Rendering Infrastructure Q & A
• SGI - OpenGL: The industry's foundation for high-performance graphics
• Mahesh Venkitachalam's Home Page
• Michael's OpenGL Page
• The Space Invaders 3D Homepage - A game in progress, includes OpenGL/Windows info
• Will Code For Food - by the author of the OpenGL SuperBible
• Linux/OpenGL Base (Draft) - on standardizing how to compile OpenGL programs on Linux
• A Simple Scene Graph API for OpenGL.
• Siggraph '99 Courses - "Lighting and Shading Techniques for Interactive Applications" and "Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL"

Journals, Books, and Magazines

• SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings
• Table of Contents of SIGGRAPH Proceedings
• Siggraph 98 Papers on the Web
• Graphics Gems Repository
• The journal of graphics tools
• Game Developer Magazine Companion Source Page - Includes source for animation, physics, collision detection, particle systems

Graphics Gurus

• Seth Teller / Publications
• Paul Heckbert's Web Page
• Wim Sweldens' Homepage - Many papers on wavelets and multiresolution meshes
• Hin Jang: g f x
• Ask GrandMaster B. [OFTEN]
• Dave Eberly's Free Source Code Page - Source and explanation of:
  • approximating points with curves in 2D/3D
  • finding bounding volumes in 2D/3D
  • distance between point, line, triangle, etc. in 2D/3D
  • collision detection in 2D/3D
  • splines, arc length and curvature for polynomial curves in 2D/3D
  • perspective mapping quad to quad, projection of an ellipsoid
  • Numerical methods including: eigensystem solver for symmetric matrices, root finding, minimization, fast arctangent, other special functions
  • Also numerical integration, image analysis, point and matrix classes, clustering, morphing, normal compression, quaternion interpolation, ...
• Paul Bourke - Many pages including: sphere tesselation, the physics of a particle system, Bezier/Spline Curves/Patches, Distance between points/lines/planes, distributing points on a sphere, cool way to index hexagon map, Fourier method for fractal landscapes, random numbers

Visibility and Occulsion

• Triage Masks: PDF, Paper Viewer - Very cool heirarchal coverage buffer by Ned Greene
• Hiearchical Polygon Tiling with Coverage Masks - presentation on the same by Ned Greene
• The SpanArray as a Solution for Polygon Rasterization and Hidden Surface Removal
• The BSP Tree FAQ
• CGDC Quake Talk by Michael Abrash
• Portal Engines - by Mark Feldman
• NCSTRL - Look for papers such as Seth Teller's Visibility Computations in Densely Occluded Polyhedral Environments and Thomas Funkhouser's Database and Display Algorithms for Interactive Visualization of Architectural Models.
• Gamasutra - Occlusion Culling Algorithms
• 3D Visibility: Analytical Study and Applications
• Dirty Punk's Line Dualities: Plucker Space and You

Height Fields and Terrain

• Continuous LOD Terrain Renderer
• Continuous LOD Terrain Renderer
• terraVox - an experimental voxel landscape engine - Used to be OpenVL
• Longbow Digital Arts - Seumas's Programming Page
• Terrain Generation Techniques
• More wacky fractal landscapes! - many different modules
• Virtual Geographic Information System Project - Height fields with continuous level of detail
• Generating Random Fractal Terrain
• Generating Terrain
• Terragen
• Terrain Bibliography
• BwanaVision: A Software Image Generation System Sypporting Dynamic Terrain
• Heightfield demo by Marc Peter
• Generating fractal planets - techniques and source
• ROAM Home Page - A paper on dynamically adapting terrain meshes
• Peter Lindstrom's Home Page - Dynamic level-of-detail using quad trees, etc.
• Torben AEgidius Mogensen's Home Page - includes source to a fractal planet generator
• Terraform Home Page - Height field editor
• Terrain Simplification (Terra/Scape) - inludes simplification software with source, and a few papers on the subject
• Outcast Tech Presentation - the techniques used in their software terrain engine
• Tanzanite Software - Terrain and plant generation, including procedural textures
• Computer Graphics Research Group at the Institute of Scientific Computing at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.:
  • M. H. Gross, O. G. Staadt, R. Gatti: Efficient Triangular Surface Approximations using Wavelets and Quadtree Data Structures. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 2, No. 2, pp. 130-143, 1996.
    Available files: [abstract] [gnu-compressed Postscript] [gnu-compressed figures in Postscript]
  • M. H. Gross, R. Gatti, O. G. Staadt: Fast Multiresolution Surface Meshing. Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '95, pp. 135-142, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.
    Available files: [abstract] [gnu-compressed Postscript file] [gnu-compr. colorpage 1 in Postscript] [gnu-compr. colorpage 2 in Postscript]
• Misc notes and links at the Virtual Terrain Project - on washed ashore
• Real-Time Generation of Continuous Levels of Detail for Height Fields
• Runtime Regular-Grid Approaches on the Virtual Terrain Project
• TopoVista
• Fast and Accuracte Terrain Rendering
• Continuous LOD Terrain Meshing Using Adaptive Quadtrees by Thatcher Ulrich
• Thatcher's home page - also indie game development mailing list
• Paper Downloads on Bolt Action Software - Check out the materials from GDC 2000
• ROAMing Geometry - project main page

Real-Time Shadowing

• Fast Shadow Algorithm
• Realistic, Hardware-accelerated Shading and Lighting
• DirtyPunk's Lighting and Shadow Description
• Shadow Generation Algorithms
• Robust Shadow Volumes - using stencil and Z-fail

Level-Of-Detail and Surface Simplification

• Surface Simplification Using Quadric Error Metrics
• Broken: On-the-fly continuous level of detail generation for polygonal meshes
• Introduction to parametric surfaces
• Adding Extreme Detail To Polygons
• Multiresolution Modeling - including height field simplification
• Environment-Mapped Cell Texture Representations - on using imposters for distant geometry
• Delphi3D - Rapid OpenGL Development - Level of Detail

Inverse Kinematics & Spacetime Constraints

• Sebastian Grassia's Inverse Kinematics Course Notes
• Introduction to Inverse Kinematics
• Inverse Kinematics
• LITERATURE SURVEY
• c/meschach
• Conjugate Gradients Made (Almost) Easy
• IK Anim
• Siggraph 98 - NeuroAnimator
• Spacetime Constraints
• Automatic Generation of Motion
• Constraint-Based Motion Adaptation
• Efficient Generation of Motion Transitions Using Spacetime Constraints
• Inverse Kinematics in Lightwave
• Literature Survey: Inverse Kinematics
• Michael F. Cohen - Recent Publications
• Mike Gleicher's Publications
• Joe Marks

Particle Systems

• Particle System API
• Fuller's Games -includes fire, water, tunnel, and plasma demos
• Tom Valesky's CS-752 Project Page -On using particle systems to simulate explosions. Not going to be around for long.
• Wheel of Time : Particle System Guide - describes the parameters to an implimentation of particle systems
• Particle system example

Animation

• Craig W. Reynolds - Flocking, Artificial Life, Steering Behaviors
• Animats technology
• GVU: Animation Lab
• Boids - flocking/swarming behavior
• Animation tips - software and advice for making animations
• The Character Animation FAQ
• What is Computer Animation?
• Orientation update for a rigid body
• Granny 3D Animation!

Texturing

• Fast D3D Texture management. - Lionhead Studios Discussion Board
• Fast Affine Texture Mapping
• Sphere mapping
• Using MMX Instructions for 3D Bilinear Texture Mapping
• Procedural Texture Page
• Paul Heckbert's Texture Mapping Bibliography
• Bob Pendleton on graphics - check the article on texture mapping math.
• The Midpoint Algorithm for High Speed Graphics - describes line/circle drawing and hyperbolic texture mapping
• Procedural Texture Page
• fxt1 texture compression
• Noise Machine: Perlin's Notes from GDC Hardcore
• High Resolution Textures - Tobias Huttner "We present a new approach for managing very high resolution textures on modern graphic workstations."

Local illumination

• Separable Approximations to BRDFs - Has movies, velvet teapot
• Other Lighting Models - From Siggraph99, on adding a Fresnel term using hardware texturemapping
• Realistic, Hardware-accelerated Shading and Lighting
• Waterloo/CGL/Image Synthesis/Papers - "Interactive Rendering with Arbitrary BRDFs using Separable Approximations" by Jan Kautz and Michael McCool and other texturing/lighting papers

Quicktime VR-alikes

• Quicktime VR
• Automatic Panoramic Image Merging
• Broken? Surround Video SDK - by Black Diamond and Microsoft (you have been warned)
• Wasabi Software - makers of SkyPaint 3D Panorama tool
• dynamic surround video

Triangulation

• QMG project
• Online Resources for Mesh Generation
• Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
• Broken: No Title
• hull - convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, alpha shapes
• Stripe Homepage - Create strips and fans from a triangulation
• The 3DTop Triangle-Strip detection algorithm - Open source, from 3DTop
• Triangle stripper source code

Color Quantization

• Color Image Quantization
• Ledalite Color Quantization Bibliography
• Colour Metric
• Xiaolin Wu's Page

Article Collections and Links Pages

• HyperGraph Table of Contents
• Technical Stuff - Several presentations from nVidia on advanced techniques
• Tom Hammersleys Graphics Programming Page
• Real-Time Rendering Resources - the web site for the book Real-Time Rendering; extensive link collection
• Steve's Computer Graphics Index
• Grafix3D - A fairly large indexed collection of papers
• Computer Graphics - links to laboratories and institutions across the world
• Chris's Chamber - Graphics articles
• The Gyroscope - Source to Texture mapping, BSP, some utilites
• Broken: Milo's 3d game design page - Info on 3D Accelerators, World Modeling, Color and Lighting, Texture Mapping, Mip Mapping, and Vector Math
• Zed3d - a 3d graphics programming reference
• Microsoft Research at SIGGRAPH '96 - Blue Screen Matting, The Lumigraph, Progressive Meshes, Talisman, Hierachical Image Caching for Accelarted Walkthroughs
• Broken: Graphic Programing - XYZZ Software Company
• Broken: Tom Hammersley Graphics Coding Webpage - Covers many topics
• The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page
• Hans Kopp's Graphics Page - Sphere mapping, bump mapping, displacement mapping, including source
• Computer Graphics Articles from MERL - On animation, volume graphics, etc.
• Kia's Tips and Tricks for Photoshop
• GraphicsPapers.com
• Graphics Programming and Algorithms

Other Techniques

• Geometric Modeling -- On-Line Notes - Splines and subdivision surfaces
• Alan Murta - A Generic Polygon Clipping Library
• 3Deep Developers' Corner - Gamma Correction
• Isometric Game Programming
• Riemersma dither - Error diffusion on a Hilbert curve
• Automatic Panoramic Image Merging
• realtime020100 - Normal Transforms
• The Physics of Lens Flares
• A Practical Analytic Model for Daylight

3d engines

• 3d Graphics Engines - a definitive list
• Crystal Space 3D Engine - 6DOF, portal based, free with C++ source. Also check here.
• The New Phantom Cyberspace 3D - Focus 3d engine, work in progress, includes source
• Egerter's Power Render - trial version available
• Blitz Engine
• SurRender - Real-Time 3D Surround GFX Render Engine
• The Mesa 3-D graphics library - Based on the OpenGL API
• Baltimore: A 3D Game Engine - free Doom rendering engine for noncommercial use.
• Plush 3D Page - free general purpose 3D rendering for noncommercial use.
• Panard Vision 3D Engine - Portable
• Genesis 3D Engine
• The Raydeal Homepage - Doom 3d source with support for height fields
• C++ vector and matrix algebra routines
• pixelbaSe - with scripting and AI

Free Textures and Models

• Textures
• Free Media Network
• E-Studioz
• Blade's Textures and Tiles - or see the old site
• Primordial Soup
• Lead Pipe Studios
• Objects - Free for noncommercial use. From TotalGL2
• Paul Bourke's Textures - free for noncommercial use
• Graphtallica - Free Textures for Game Designers and Artists
• Shareware United Association

Modellers

• sPatch
• Daylon Graphics - Leveller (tm) Heightfield Editor
• Headcase
• Clayworks homepage
• Blender, freeware 3D software
• Extreme Wave Home Page
• Mesh Maker Pro
• Animator Pro - A sprite editor
• Campaign Cartographer 2 for Windows 95 and NT - Map Making for RPG's
• Pixcon - freeware modeller with source
• Broken: Moroni 3D Editor
• How to use WorldCraft as a Modeller - includes source for parsing the outputted .map files
• ModelMagic3D - Creates OpenGL scenes
• CineGraphics - UView v2.1 - For assigning UVs for texture mapping
• 3dgraphics.com: Products - TrU-V, TrU-Viewer and MeshPaint 3D - For assigning UVs for texture mapping
• PrettyPoly Editor (PPE) - Portable Open Source Modeller
• Pierre Saunier, ppModeler
• SAL: Modelers
• 3D 1500

Musicians and Artists

• Rick Cheng Studio - Artist
• Music by Deeno - Computer Musician
• Shawn Swift's page
  Jerome Michael Horwath Productions offers royalty free professional sound effects and audio production elements for your free use in any professional, personal, or commercial audio project.

Raytrace

• POV-Ray
• Josh's Raytracing Page
• Dave G's Animation System Homepage
• The POV-Ray Include Files Page
• Broken: The Officially Unofficial POV-Ray 3.0 Utility Warehouse
• Creating Animations for the Web - PC
• POV-Ray 3.0 isosurface pactch
• Ray Tracing News Guide
• Andreas Hirczy: particle-system - C++ source, POV-Ray output

Image file formats

• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification, Tenth Draft
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Page
• Intel(R) JPEG Library Support
• The FLIC file format - Including extensions, by CompuPhase, makers of a FLIC library
• Wotsit's File Format Page
• Loki - Motion JPEG Library
• LightWave 3D Object File Format

Random Dot Stereograms

• Single Image Random Dot Stereograms - Those 3d pictures you have to unfocus your eyes to see.
• SIRDS from the Caltech Graphics Group

UNFILED Graphics Sites

• Beware of VIDEA - funny
• Graph Drawing Tools
• frenzy's codebase - Has some nice documents on 3d math (though I did notice a couple of mistakes so be warned), a demo with source, and a 911 byte intro
• Don's 3D Studio MAX R2 Page - The 3D Studio MAX R2 Display Architecture