A little 3D/graphics coding links collection

[Hezad]

Well, the title is self-explaining so let's jump in the subject

• http://www.realtimerendering.com/intersections.html

A huge list of intersections calculating (very very useful for raytracers). There are several links for each intersection so even if there's a broken link, you should find what you want.

• http://raphaello.univ-fcomte.fr/Ig/Radiosite/Radiosite.htm

A complete radiosity tutorial (in french though).

• http://www.cgtextures.com/

You need textures ? I mean *good* textures ? Check this website !

• http://www.mandelbrot-dazibao.com/HSV/HSV.htm

An awesome tutorial about the HSV color space.

• http://www.easyrgb.com/index.php?X=MATH

ALL formulas to convert color spaces (a huge list of different color spaces).

• http://rel.betterwebber.com/index.php?action=contents&item=Tutorials

Relsoft's website's tutorials section (Heya rel ). You wanna code 3D software stuff ? Check it's 3D tutorials (Bottom of the page). And there are also a lot of very very cool tutorials.

• http://www.cescg.org/CESCG-2004/web/Zdrojewska-Dorota/

An article about fog rendering. A must-read if you wanna add fog to your 3D engine !

• http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/pubs/thesis_drdaniel2.pdf (PDF [big file])

A thesis of M. Daniel Vlasic about Fake Phong Shading. Contains a huge quantity of useful informations about general shading techniques too. A must-read !!

• http://igad.nhtv.nl/~bikker/articles/various/tut_lighting.htm

A small article about shading. Presents some ideas about light handling.

• http://www.royriggs.com/obj.html

A short description of the OBJ file format. Useful if you wanna write your OBJ importer.

• http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/obj/

A very (VERY) complete description of the OBJ file format.

• http://meshula.net/wordpress/?page_id=93

A reflexion about rendering engines.

• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article791.asp

A very short article about simplified Environment Mapping.

• http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20001110/oliveira_01.htm

"This article presents, in two parts, a detailed implementation of refractive texture mapping for a simple water wave simulation using directional sine waves applied to a flat polygonal mesh."

• http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/9784/vgophong.txt (txt)

Phong shading : "What I've tried to do is explain the factors of the phong lighting equation -- what parts do what, and why it works."

• http://www.devmaster.net/articles/shadow_volumes/

A very cool article about shadow volumes.

• http://graphics.cs.lth.se/research/shadows/

The shadows rendering home page ! A HUGE list of different resources about shadow rendering.

• http://www.devmaster.net/articles/shadow_techniques/

An article about the different shadow generation techniques.




Voilà

Final notes : Some of you may recognize some of those sites. I found some of those links here indeed. If you have some cool links about 3D/graphics coding you want to share, don't hesitate to post it here (but please use the same scheme : a list bracket for the link and a little description below for clarity)

[benny!]

K++ .. thanks a lot for this cool link-list and for taking the
time to comment each link!

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Very Nice.

Have a karmoid.

[Moroboshisan]

Nice and useful links here!

Boozin' on the web i get stumble upon this one: http://freecomputerbooks.com, maybe this one could be useful for some ppl here.

@Shockwave: feel free to remove the post if you think those books links sounds legally controversial. I just wanted to share knowledge with you all. (since I'm actually unable to get back anything out of my past coding skills, lack of time is not my friend!)

Cheers!

[Clyde]

Wow, wonderfull resources, over looked this the first time round. Cheers Hezad K++

[Moroboshisan]

I'm little sick these days, i didn't find any reference to "The Demo Effects Collection" ... not a real resource unless you need to do some coding for SDL enabled platforms...

http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net/

[benny!]

Interesting oldschoolish link!