Computer Graphics and Visualization

• Bibiliographies and Papers
• Computer Graphics Organizations
• Commercial Sites
• Miscellaneous References

Bibiliographies and Papers

Annotated bibliography of scientific visualization URLs.

SIGGRAPH Bibliography with Forms interface (official) and without forms (unofficial).

Annotated Bibliography of Lateiner Dataspace Volume Visualization Technical Reports

Stereoscopic volume visualization

Overview describing Volume Visualization

Parallel Volume Rendering paper (not Web-based, requires Post-Script Viewer).

Articles on Function Representation in Geometric Modeling at the Shape Modeling Lab., The University of Aizu, Japan.

Computer Graphics Organizations

Brown Computer Graphics Group home page.

California Institute of the Arts Computer Animation Lab

Center for Air Sea Technology: Oceanographic modeling and visualization.

Center for Innovative Computer Application (CICA); computer graphics, visualization.

Center for Geometry Analysis Numerics and Graphics (GANG) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Computer Graphics Group at Charles University, Computer Science Dept.

Computer Graphics Research Group at the University of Sheffield, UK.

CRS4 - Scientific Visualization Group at the Science and Technology Park of Sardinia. Includes information on i3D 3D Web Browser.

ETH Z¸rich Computer Graphics Research Group

Eurographics the European Association of Computer Graphics.

Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota.

Georgia Tech: Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center

Imperial College: (UK) HCI group's Visualization projects.

Institute for Molecular Virology at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, with animations, interactive models, and high-resolution, color-coded images of 3-D virus structures

Institute of Simulation and Graphics University of Magdeburg, Germany

ITTI Gravigs project: teaching packs on computer graphics and scientific vizualisation

IRIS Explorer Center for IRIS users.

ISA: Image, Synthesis and Analysis center at the University of Nancy, France. (English and French)

Institute for Simulation & Training at the University of Central Florida contains information on their VR projects

Institute of Computer Graphics at the Vienna University of Technology.

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium: Computer Graphics Research Group (English and Dutch).

KISMET: software project at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany (in English). Images and documents on VR, scientific / medical visualization, and robotics.

Laboratory of Eidomatics at Dept. Information Sciences, Milano, Italy. (information ranges from ray-tracing to fractal compression)

Lateiner Dataspace's research papers on Ray-Traced Volume Visualization.

LS VII Computer Graphics group at the University of Dortmund, Germany - includes a page of graphics pointers.

University of Manchester's Computer Graphics Unit's research and software .

Multimedia Communications Research Lab(MCRLab)at the University of Ottawa. (Information on image / video processing techniques)

NASA JSC's GRAF Lab contains an abundance of pointers to Virtual Reality sites.

New York University (NYU): Scientific Visualization at the ACF.

NSF/ARPA Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Visualization.

Rechenzentrum Universitaet Stuttgart (RUS) Visualization Projects: includes papers, annotated links.

Shastra distributed collaborative visualization homepage at Purdue University.

SIGGRAPH: ACM SIGGRAPH's home page.

Scientific Visualzation Thrust at Mississippi State University.

Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory home page, also see Modelling course notes with demos.

Sydney VisLab: Sydney Regional Scientific Visualisation Laboratory

Syntim project at INRIA in France (French / English)

UCSC - Perceptual Science Laboratory: information on facial animation and a visual page of computer graphics links.

University of California at Berkeley Computer Graphics projects.

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill): Graphics Groups homepage.

University of Reims - France: Computer graphics unit's research on Volume Rendering, 3D Animation and 3D Image Processing (French / English)

Visualization at the Cornell University Theory Center

Commercial Sites:

3-D drawings that work for you: Traditional line art or full color 3-D renderings service; Manuals, Full drafting support, Advertising, Product renderings.

ACS Design & Telematics Centre: Graphic & WWW design, Multimedia and CD services.

AdGraphx: Multimedia and 3D animation / imaging services.

ANAtech: division of Intergraph, makers of Large Format Scanners for GIS, CAD/CAM and Mapping.

Autodesk: Makers of Autocad, 3DStudio, and other 3D Graphics software (includes job offerings).

Biomechanics, Inc. An R&D Company specializing in capturing, analyzing and manipulating three-dimensional motion.

Black Belt Systems, Inc. Image Manipulation Software for many platforms.

Celefex: Commercial Computer Graphics studio.

Center for Electronic Art

Coryphaeus: Visual simulation software for SGI workstations.

CPI Image Library Public domain images made available to the Internet by Megalon Publishing.

Digiteyes Multimedia TypeArt Library: Mac & PC original, type 1 & truetype fonts and info on typography.

Equinox: Computer Graphics Services for Businesses.

Dynamic Imaging: 3D imaging and animation for Web, Film and other media.

Eye Produce CD-Rom: royalty free pictures and photographs.

GIG-Online: 3D animation, rendering & visualization software (3DGO, GIGPIX, etc.)

IBM Visualization Data Explorer home page.

IBM 3D Interaction Accelerator Real-time browser for very large 3D models

Imspace Systems: Software for managing / publishing images, movies and sounds on CD-ROM or online.

Insight Studios: 3D-Modeling/Animation services for the professional media community.

LOOK! C++ visualization and debugging system from OST.

MacToPicMac to Host connectivity with graphical terminal capabilities.

Mathart.com: Physcial visualization of computer rendered abstractions.

Math Vision Inc.: Mathematical visualization software, includes links to their Technical Journal.

Model Masters, L.L.C.: Geometric Database libraries and file conversion utilities.

Metro Link Inc. WEB site has information about their family of Mission-Critical Proven, X Window System and Multimedia/Imaging software for UNIX or UNIX like operating systems.

Motion Pixels: Video compression / decompression software.

Muse On Line Creative Source: Search, preview, and pay online for licensing thousands of images.

Natpix Catalog of animation software for SGI, Mac and Sun workstations.

Natural Graphics: Developer of Scenery Animator, which renders fly-through animations of natural landscapes.

NCC: Publishes an Image Processing Tools CD-ROM.

NewTek's Home Page (Information on Video Toaster, Lightwave 3d, etc.)

NMAA: National Multimedia Association of America

OZ Inc.: Computer Graphics and motion capture technology.

Parallel Performance Group, Inc.: Solid Modelling, Visualization, Architectural CADD, CAD for Mechanical Design Automation, Volume Visualization, Medical Imaging and Animation.

Photomodeler Home Page, software that converts photos into 3D models

Picture Syndicate: Media and Industrial Design Company.

Radiance Software 3D Modelling software for SGI workstations.

ReZ.n8 Productions Developmental computer graphics, animation and special effects for the entertainment and advertising industries.

Silicon Graphics: Official Silicon Surf Web Site (3D Workstations / Software)

Specular: makers of 2D & 3D graphics apps for the Mac.

SSESCO (Supercomputer Systems Engineering and Services Company): 3D Visualizations targetting enviornmental modeling.

Tangent Design: creates graphics optimized for the Web.

Threespace A Computer Animation, Motion Capture, and Interactive Entertainment Company

Vector Reality: a 3D Modeler and Renderer for Windows 95/NT/3.1. A working demo is available online.

Vox-L Inc.: Information on volume visualization software and Stereoscopic Virtual Reality workstations - try the online demo of their Windows 95 version.

Wavefront Technologies: 2/3D graphics software used to create animations for education, entertainment and communication.

Wild Tiles! Art Textures and Backgrounds CD ROM.

WinViz A multi-dimensional tool based on parallel coordinates designed specifically for non-technical individuals (includes a version built as a Lotus 123 add-on)

Woolford Marketing: Online Marketing & Advertising firm, specializing in web design & graphics.

YBI: Your Business Internet, Web oriented graphics services collective (includes BrainBug Graphics)

Zero Gravity Inc.: 3D computer animation, graphics, and digital effects, for film & video.

Miscellaneous References

3DSite: daily updated site for 3d graphics.

Advanced Research Corporation is up from 1000 to 1400 Eastern Time only, and contains some mpeg and gif files (over a 9600 link).

Animation Master Unofficial (Hobbyist) home page. Contains information, objects, textures for Animation Master Software.

"Connect: Academic Computing and Networking at NYU," includes Sci-Vis activities (not Web-based, requires Acrobat to view images)

DIGI-RE-DU: Computerized photo scanning and retouching service.

Digital Filtering in Nuclear Medicine

Digital Photography by Stephen R. Brown.

Disturbing Patterns: Collection of original web textures & desktop patterns.

FAST - Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (Flow Visualization Software).

Fractally generated works of art by Dr. Paul Margerison.

Graphics without Greek Novice level tutorials on Ray Tracing and SIRDS.

The Human Factor is a commercial site with links to assorted downloadable movies and pictures.

Image archive including 3-D and SIRDS images at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory archive.

Leo's Gold Lion Products: Commercial site, Computerized Gold Leaf products / sevices.

Mark Mandrell: Freelance computer graphics artist.

Measuring and Modelling in 3D: Information on measuing and modelling 3D objects using a variety of techniques.

MMail: Commercial site, MIME multimedia mail software for SUN systems.

On The Way: Original art by Stanley Tomshinsky.

Peripheral Systems Laboratory New technologies for advanced display, printing devices, phototypesetters and information servers.

Photojournalism on the Web: Michigan Press Photographers Association.

Prototype web-grapher produces gifs of local webs

RADIANCE software information, a ray-tracing lighting simulation application authored at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

RenderMan Repository Unofficial site dedicated to RenderMan 3D graphics tool.

StepWise contains information on the OpenStep and NextStep GUI's.

Teo Spiller's computer art gallery (Slovenian - no English vers. available).

Thant's Animations Indexcontains links to sites on the Web which serve Animations and Movies.

Urban Interactive 3D software models, animated backgrounds and countdowns.

Virtual Reality Development Software Toolkit for Unix, developed at the University of Alberta.

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