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- 3-D OBJECTS IN THE INTERNET
- ===========================
- (See also last item for a phone/modem site)
-
- Specifications for graphic formats can be found in:
-
- zamenhof.cs.rice.edu 128.42.1.75 in pub/graphics.formats
-
- The following info has been excerpted from the Computer Graphics Resource
- Listing (version of 10 June 1992), compiled by Nikolaos (Nick) C. Fotis
- (nfotis@theseas.ntua.gr).
- ========================================================================
-
- This is mainly a guide for computer graphics software.
- I would suggest reading the Comp. Graphics FAQ for image analysis stuff.
- It's entitled:
- (date) comp.graphics frequently asked questions.
-
- This article is posted to comp.graphics 3-4 times a
- month and is kept in the FTP sites
- cgcr.gsu.edu, tmp/graphics-resource-list
- nic.funet.fi, pub/graphics/misc/graphics-resource-list
- weedeater.math.yale.edu, pub/incoming/graphics-resource-list
- and
- gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au, /incoming/graphics-resource-list
-
- I have included my comments within braces '[' and ']'.
-
- Nikolaos Fotis
-
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-
- 1. ARCHIE
- ---------
-
- The Archie is a service system to locate FTP places for
- requested files. It's appreciated that you will use Archie
- before asking help in the newsgroups.
-
- Archie servers:
- archie.mcgill.ca or 132.206.2.3 (Canada)
- archie.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100 (Finland/Eur.)
- archie.au or 139.130.4.6 (Aussie/NZ)
- cs.huji.ac.il or 132.65.6.5 (Israel)
- archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.3.7 (UK/Ireland)
- archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 (USA [MD])
- archie.unl.edu (password: archie1) (USA [NE])
- archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.2 (USA [NY])
- archie.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15 (USA [NJ])
-
- Connect to Archie server with telnet and type "archie" as username.
- To get help type 'help'.
- You can get 'xarchie' or 'archie', which are clients that call Archie
- without the burden of a telnet session.
- 'Xarchie' is on the X11.R5 contrib tape, and 'archie' on comp.sources.misc,
- vol. 27.
-
- To get information on how to use Archie via e-mail, send mail with
- subject "help" to "archie" account at any of above sites.
-
- (Note to Janet/PSS users -- the United Kingdom archie site is
- accessible on the Janet host doc.ic.ac.uk [000005102000].
- Connect to it and specify "archie" as the host name and "archie" as
- the username.)
-
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-
- 7. Scene description languages
- ------------------------------
-
- NFF
- ---
- Neutral file format , by Eric Haines. Very simple, there are some
- procedural database generators in the SPD package, and many objects
- floating in various FTP sites. There's also a previewer written in
- HP Starbase from E.Haines. Also there's one written in VOGLE, so you can
- use any of the devices VOGLE can output on.
- (Check in sites carrying VOGLE, like gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au)
-
- OFF
- ---
- Object file format, from DEC's Randy Rost (rost@granite.dec.com).
- Available also through their mail server. To obtain help about using this
- service, send a message with a "Subject:" line containing only the word
- "help" and a null message body to: object-archive-server@decwrl.dec.com.
- [For FTP places to get it, see in the relevant place]. There's an OFF
- previewer for SGI 4D machines, called off-preview in
- godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au . There are previewers for xview and sunview,
- also on gondwana.
-
- TDDD
- ----
- It's a library of 3D objects with translators to/from OFF, NFF,
- Rayshade, Imagine or vort objects.
- Edited copy of the announcement follows (from Raytracing News, V4,#3):
-
- New Library of 3D Objects Available via FTP, by Steve Worley
- (worley@updike.sri.com)
-
- I have assembled a set of over 150 3D objects in a binary format
- called TDDD. These objects range from human figures to airplanes,
- from semi-trucks to lampposts. These objects are all freely
- distributable, and most have READMEs that describe them.
-
- In order to convert these objects to a human-readable format, a file
- with the specification of TDDD is included in the directory with the
- objects. There is also a shareware system called TTDDDLIB (officially
- on hubcap.clemson.edu) that will convert (ala PBM+) to/from various
- object formats : Imagine TTDDD (extension of TDDD?), OFF, NFF,
- Rayshade 4.0, or vort. Source included for Amiga/Unix as executables
- for the Amiga. Also outputs Framemaker MIF files and isometric views
- in Postscript.
-
- P3D
- ---
- From Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The P3D uses lisp with slight
- extensions to store three-dimensional models. A simple lisp
- interpreter is included with the P3D release, so there is no need to
- have access to any vendor's lisp to run this software.
-
- The mouse-driven user interfaces for Motif, Open Look, and Silicon
- Graphics GL, and the DrawP3D subroutine library for generating P3D
- without ever looking at the underlying Lisp.
-
- The P3D software currently supports nine renderers. They are:
- Painter - Painter's Algorithm, Dore, Silicon Graphics Inc. GL language,
- Generic Phigs, Sun Phigs+, DEC Phigs+, Rayshade, ART ray tracer (from
- VORT package) and Pixar RenderMan.
-
- The code is available via anonymous FTP from the machines
- ftp.psc.edu, directory pub/p3d, and nic.funet.fi, directory
- pub/graphics/programs/p3d.
-
- RenderMan
- ---------
- Pixar's RenderMan is not free - call Pixar for details.
-
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-
- 3. Computer graphics FTP site list, by Eric Haines
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- {Only sites apparently containing 3-D objects included here (O.G.)}.
-
-
- NORTH AMERICA (please look for things on your own continent first...):
- -------------
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]: /mirrors/unix-c/graphics - Rayshade ray
- tracer, MTV ray tracer, Vort ray tracer, FBM, PBMPLUS, popi, Utah
- raster toolkit. /mirrors/msdos/graphics - DKB ray tracer, FLI
- RayTracker demos. /graphics/graphics/radiosity - Radiance and Indian
- radiosity package. /archive/graphics/graphics - George Kyriazis'
- stuff, including bibs, Graphics Gems I & II code, TDDD, OFF, RTN,
- # Radiance, NFF, SIPP, etc etc.
- + George Kyriazis <kyriazis@rdrc.rpi.edu>
-
- zamenhof.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.75] : pub/graphics.formats - Various electronic
- documents about many object and image formats.
-
- ftp.ipl.rpi.edu [128.113.14.50]: sigma/erich - SPD images and Haines thesis
- images. pub/images - various 24 and 8 bit image stills and sequences.
- Kevin Martin <sigma@ipl.rpi.edu>
-
- 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>
-
- ftp.uu.net [192.48.96.2]: /graphics - *IRIT*, RT News back issues (not
- complete), NURBS models, other graphics related material.
- [ was uunet.uu.net ]
-
- cs.utah.edu [128.110.4.21]: /pub - Utah raster toolkit, *NURBS databases*.
- Jamie Painter <jamie@cs.utah.edu>
-
- gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]: /pub/DEC/off.tar.Z - *OFF models*,
- /pub/misc/graf-bib - *graphics bibliographies (incomplete)*.
- [ Note that the bibliography is so incomplete that it'll be out soon ! ]
- Also GPC Benchmark files (planned, but not checked).
- Randi Rost <rost@granite.dec.com>
-
- hubcap.clemson.edu [130.127.8.1]: /pub/amiga/incoming/imagine - stuff for the
- Amiga Imagine & Turbo Silver ray tracers. *TTDDDLIB* ask Glenn Lewis
- <glewis@pcocd2.intel.com>
-
- 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.
-
- cs.uoregon.edu [128.223.4.13]: /incoming - *TDDD models*, /pub - *Irit solids
- modeller*, *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.
-
- research.att.com [192.20.225.2]: /netlib/graphics - *SPD package*, ~/polyhedra -
- *polyhedra databases*. (If you don't have FTP, use the netlib
- automatic mail replier: UUCP - research!netlib, Internet -
- netlib@ornl.gov. Send one line message "send index" for more info,
- "send haines from graphics" to get the SPD)
-
-
- EUROPE:
- -------
-
- irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY ray tracer*, SPD, /NFF - many non-SPD
- NFF format scenes, RayShade data files (Americans: check
- ftp.ee.lbl.gov first). Didier Badouel <badouel@irisa.irisa.fr>
-
- jyu.fi [128.214.7.5]: /pub/graphics/ray-traces - many ray tracers, including
- VM_pRAY, DBW, DKB, MTV, QRT, RayShade, some RT News, NFF files. Jari
- Toivanen <toivanen@jyu.fi>
-
- asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17]: pub/RTrace - *RTrace*
- nffutils.tar.Z (NFF utilities for RTrace), medical data (CAT, etc.)
- converters to NFF, and other stuff.
- Antonio Costa (acc@asterix.inescn.pt)
-
- vega.hut.fi [128.214.3.82]: /graphics - RTN archive, ray tracers (MTV, QRT,
- others), NFF, some models
-
-
- DOWN UNDER:
- -----------
-
- gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.1.63]: pub - *VORT(ART) ray tracer*, *VOGLE*,
- Wilson's ray tracing abstracts, /pub/contrib/artscenes (ART scenes from
- Italy), pub/images/haines - Haines thesis images, Graphics Gems code,
- SPD, NFF & OFF databases, NFF and OFF previewers, plus some 8- and
- 24bit images and lots of other stuff.
- Bernie Kirby <bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au>
-
- 4. Mail servers
- ---------------
-
- a. DEC's FTPMAIL
-
- Send a one-line message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com WITHOUT a Subject: field,
- and having a line containing the word 'help'.
- You should get back a message detailing the relevant procedures you
- must follow in order to get the files you want.
-
- Note that the "reply" or "answer" command in your mailer will not work
- for this message or any other mail you receive from FTPMAIL. To send
- requests to FTPMAIL, send an original mail message, not a reply.
- Complaints should be sent to the ftpmail-request@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com
- address rather than to postmaster, since DECWRL's postmaster is not
- responsible for fixing ftpmail problems.
-
- c. Lightwave 3D mail based file-server
-
- A mail based file server for 3D objects, 24bit JPEG images, GIF images
- and image maps is now online for all those with Internet mail access.
- The server is the official archive site for the Lightwave 3D mail-list.
-
- The server resides on a BBS called "The Graphics BBS". The BBS is
- operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week at the phone number of +1
- 908/469-0049. It utilizes a Hayes V-Series 9600 V.42 modem. (soon to
- upgrade to a V.32 modem)
-
- If you would like to submit objects, scenes or images to the server,
- please pack, uuencode and then mail the files to the address:
- server@bobsbox.rent.com.
-
- For information on obtaining files from the server send a mail message
- to the address file-server@graphics.rent.com with the following in
- the body of the message:
- HELP
- /DIR
- And a help file describing how to use the server and a complete
- directory listing will be sent to you via mail.
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