Wojciech Jarosz

Computer Graphics Ph.D Student

Computer Graphics Resources

• HDR Environment Maps (Light Probes)

  • debevec.org - The classic Debevec light probes
  • aversis.be - Mirror ball photos in and around an apartment
  • gl.ict.usc.edu - High-res stitched light probes
  • hdri.3dweave.com - Low-res environment maps mostly from around Vienna
  • HDRI Challenge - Background image and matching lightprobe

• Geometry (3D Models)

  • 3dmodelfree.com - Hundreds of free models
  • The Mesh Compendium - Many free models created or modified by the Caltech Multi-Res Modeling Group
  • MGF Parser and Examples - Classic Radiance example scenes
  • Hayabusa Project Science Data Archive - 25143 Itokawa asteroid model
  • inTrace - Free green Beetle model, and more
  • Large Geometric Models Archive - at Georgia Tech
  • FastScan Samples - Hand-held laser scanner example models
  • The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository - The classics
  • The Digital Michelangelo Project - Need to apply for a license to download
  • Image-based 3D Model Archive - models created for Carlos Hernández Esteban's Ph.D. thesis
  • Powerplant Model - The 13M triangle powerplant model
  • Official Blender Model Repository - Many free models in Blender format
  • Sponza Atrium - The standard GI model in various formats
  • Sibenik Cathedral - Another common GI model
  • MIT CSAIL Textured Models Database - Scanned/textured models.

• Surface Reflectance

  • Reflectance Data at Cornell - Fitted BRDFs for various paints, etc
  • MERL BRDF Database - Wojciech Matusik's database of 100 measured materials
  • Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models - High-res measured anisotropic BRDFs
  • MERL/ETH Skin Reflectance Database - Fitted BRDF parameters for human skin
  • BTF Database Bonn - Bidirectional texture function database
  • CUReT - BDRF and BTF database

• Textures

  • Mayang's Free Texture Library - Hundreds of free high-res textures
  • CGTextures - Even more free hig-res textures
  • ImagerAfter Free Textures - Many textures, mostly photographic
  • TextureKing - and some more
  • Aversis - A few free textures

• Educational/Misc.

  • Global Illumination Compendium - Great reference of formulas and equation in global illumination
  • A Catalog of Radiation Heat Transfer Configuration Factors
  • NeHe Productions - great OpenGL tutorials
  • Ray Tracing News - Classic ray tracing newsletter
  • John Burkardt's Homepage - Hundreds of useful graphics-related programs with source code!
  • The Aggregate Magic Algorithms - Some useful bit-twiddling tricks
  • stereopsis - Some neat graphics tid-bits
  • Paul Bourke - Hundreds of graphics related articles with source code
  • Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics - "the web's most extensive mathematics resource."
  • Geometric Tools - Extensive source code for the book "3D Game Engine Design: A Practical Approach to Real-Time Computer Graphics".
  • Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective - A full undergraduate-level textbook about radiosity (out of print) and now freely available as a pdf.

• Bibliography Resources

  There are several search engines available which index graphics related papers.
  • SIGGRAPH's Bibliography Database
  • Citeseer - Scientific Literature Digital Library. Additionally includes paper abstracts, citations, bibtex entries, and links to pdfs.
  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - Large database with bibtex entries for more than 2 million references.
  • GraphicsPapers.com - Paul Nettle's reference database. Attempts to give links which are relevant to the paper (and may contain the paper itself).
  • The ACM Portal - Full text of very article published by ACM. Also includes bibtex entries.
  Several researchers have also made available specialized computer graphics related bibtex files which can be downloaded for off-line use.
  • RADBIB and GITHESIS - Radiosity bibliography compiled by Ian Ashdown and Eric Haines.
  • Ray Tracing Bibliography - Compiled by Eric Haines and Paul Heckbert (fairly dated).
  • Computational Geometry Bibliographies - Maintained by Bill Jones, with over 8000 references.
  • Paul Heckbert has made a few bibliographies available, including the bib file from the Graphics Gems IV book.
  • Jim Arvo has made a few bibliographies available (over 2500 entries) for computer graphics, vision and related fields (check the software section).

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Other Links

• Computing

  • UCSD Graphics Lab
  • Slashdot
  • KDE News
  • KDE-Look
  • KDE-Apps
  • FedoraNews
  • C/C++ Users Journal

• Family & Friends

  • Krzysztof Jarosz - Father. Distinguished Research Professor & Chair at the Math Department at SIUE.
  • Dorota Jarosz - Mother. Statistical Researcher at AT&T.
  • Gaja Jarosz - Sister. Assistent Professor at the Department of Linguistics at Yale.
  • Henrik Wann Jensen - Advisor at UCSD.
  • Matthias Zwicker - Advisor at UCSD.
  • John C. Hart - Advisor at UIUC.
  • Michael Garland - Advisor at UIUC.
  • Neel Joshi
  • Iman Mostafavi
  • Arash Keshmirian
  • KellyandWojtek.com - Our wedding website.
  • Justin Burke
  • Matt Tong