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This page (which is part of my Computer Graphis Resource pages) contains information about (1) tools & libraries for CG, and (2) Commercial CG products.

		General Information
		Graphic Utilities' Site & Version FAQ. Directory of Computational Geometry Software. 3D Engines List. VRML@ Graphics File Formats. Wotsit's Format, the complete programmer's resource on the net, has a section on 3D Graphics files.

		OpenGL
		SGI's OpenGL Center. GLUT. FreeGLUT, a free GLUT implementation. comp.graphics.api.opengl newsgroup. Gateway to OpenGL Info. OpenGL Developer Tools 97 On-Line. Jawed Karim Open GL developer Tools (including OpenGL 1.1 for Windows by Silicon Graphics). OpenGL GameDev List Materials. The Omniverous Biped's FAQ's by Steve Baker. The OpenGL SuperBible Home page, AKA "Will Code for Food"! OpenGL and Java: An Unofficial Binding of OpenGL to Java. This package is now maintained by Adam King. Another GL4Java, a Java interface to OpenGL by Sven Goethel. JGL, a pure java OpenGL implementation. OpenGL tips and examples: Avoiding 16 Common OpenGL Pitfalls. Way cool, way fast OpenGL rendering techniques, by Mark Kilgard. OpenGL-rendering of Underwater Caustics. "Programming with OpenGL: Advanced Techniques" Demo Programs. SIGGRAPH'99 Advanced Tutorial. Nate Robins' examples. GLE Tubing and Extrusion. GLTT : a library that allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in any OpenGL application.

		OpenGL Optimizer
		Witches Brew. info-optimizer mailing list archive. A Catia to Optimizer converter. Optimizer's Tesselator Bugs. A Wish List for what Farhenheit should do better than Optimizer.

		Other Libraries
		Open Inventor : SGI Inventor FAQ. comp.graphics.api.inventor Inventor Mentor and Inventor ToolMaker books by Josie Wernecke. Apprentice : an Open Inventor emulation library. Kahlua : a Java wrapper to Open Inventor. IRIS Performer: Angus Dorbies's Performer pages. VTK, the Visualization Toolkit. Java 3D API. The Java 3D Repository. In3D by Visible Decisions. PEXlib. OpenCascade.

		Software Tools
		cg@{C++.page}, a list of available C++ software. Graphics at WUArchive. Software for Graphics and Data Analysis. Computer Graphics related software packages. The Visualization Toolkit. The GOOD Project. The Oorange Project. Apple's QuickDraw 3D and QuickTime VR. Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit. Misc Tools : STRIPE, a software tool that converts a polygonal model into triangle strips. Meshfier, converting sets of triangles with shared edges into triangle strips. V-Collide, a Collision Detection library for Arbitrary Polygonal Objects in large environments. SOLID, Library for Interference Detection. Crossroads 3D, a Windows freeware 3D file format translator. Inventor 2.0 Converters to PovRay, Rayshade and Renderman.

		Misc
		News Groups : comp.graphics.api.misc comp.graphics.api.pexlib comp.graphics.apps.avs comp.graphics.apps.data-explorer comp.graphics.apps.freehand comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot comp.graphics.apps.lightwave comp.graphics.apps.pagemaker comp.graphics.apps.photoshop comp.graphics.apps.softimage comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics comp.sys.amiga.graphics comp.sys.mac.graphics UNC's Pixel-Planes/PixelFlow. The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository. Linear Programming FAQ. Nonlinear Programming FAQ. BSP Tree FAQ. Dave Everly's MAGIC, My Alternate Graphics and Image Code. GEL, an open source initiative for multi-user internet 3D.

		Commercial Information
		Computer Graphics System Development Corporation. IBM 3D Interaction Accelerator. MathWorks. Pixar. Silicon Graphics [Java] [USA] : Alias/Wavefront. Ion Visual Computing. Silicon Studio. GRAFICA Obscura. comp.graphics.apps.alias comp.graphics.apps.iris-explorer comp.graphics.apps.wavefront comp.sys.sgi.graphics CADCenter, makers of PDMS. Autodesk makers of Autocad. SENSE8 makers of WorldToolKit. MediaLab, a leading french company. Industrial Light & Magic *unofficial* web site.