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Article on Ray Tracing in the student magazine of the ACM.
www.acm.org
Internet Raytracing Competition
Regular awards for best raytraced still images and animations submitted by the public. Site includes most recent winners, voting on the current round, and the topic and rules for submitting to the next round.
www.irtc.org
A simple raytracer in development, it supports the basic features of a raytracer along with multi-threading. Many platforms are supported (Win32, Linux, and iPAQ).
www.yasrt.org
Test bed system for physically based photo-realistic image synthesis, mostly radiosity based. Unix based.
www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be
An object oriented library with API in C++ and Python for synthetic rendering, which provides a common environment and description language to treat light distribution in three dimensional spaces. Available for Linux and Windows.
www.lightflowtech.com
A raytracer trying to aid lighting designers and architects by predicting the light levels and appearance of a space prior to construction. It uses a hybrid approach of Monte Carlo and deterministic ray tracing. Available for Unix.
radsite.lbl.gov
The introduce of ray tracing. Also known as ray casting, determines the visibility of surfaces by tracing imaginary rays of light from the viewer's eye to the objects in the scene.
www.cc.gatech.edu
Ray tracing library written in c++ with python bindings. Source code, documentation, galleries, tutorials available. Binaries for Windows, seems to be portable to Unix platforms.
raytressi.free.fr
A C++ class library available as source code implementing a physically correct renderer. Working on Unix and Windows.
www.photon.at
Brassman's Modeller And Animation Links
Links to modelling and animation utilities, many for POV-ray on Windows and Unix.
www-personal.umich.edu
A Java ray-tracer running as a applet that wants to be simple and clean but nonetheless has some advanced features.
www.lapo.it
FuzzyPhoton - The Raytracing Repository
Information about raytracing in general, with a how-to section and an A-Z reference. Technical articles and a gallery of images renderd with the VRWorld4 raytracer developed by the author, and humour.
fuzzyphoton.tripod.com
Open Source Raytracer with a scene description language that provides constructs for programming like loops and functions. Its written in C++ and runs on Windows and Linux/Unix.
www.coolray.org
Lots of information on ray tracing. Updated once or twice a year.
www.acm.org
A realtime raytracing engine with downloadable benchmark, screenshots and information. Windows 95/98/me/2000.
www.realstorm.com