Other Reference Links

Web Sites

www.IRTC.org: The Internet Ray Tracing Competition is an open competition.

• History of the IRTC
• Rules for the Animation competition
• Topic Suggestion System
• Buy CDROM's of Past Contests submissions and source files.

Software Applications

www.POVRAY.org: The Persistence of Vision Ray tracing program.

• Download software
• Object Library
• POV-Links

www.stmuc.com/MORAY: 3d-Shape Modeling Tool for POVRay Software

• Download software
• Online Help
• Object Library

www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/cherryjam/utilities.html: : BMP2AVI conversion tool

• Download software
• Online Help
• Object Library

www.AVI2VCD.org: AVI2VCD conversion tool.

	Download software
	Online Help
	Object Library

Misc Other:

POVRAY Users:

	http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk/povrayusers/

	http://www.weirdhat.com/
	http://members.home.net/ejdeha/
	http://www.public.iastate.edu/~landover
	http://grimbert.cjb.net/
	www.hash.com/users/zachbg/
	www.anzovin.com
	www.eggington.net
	www.blender.nl
	http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434

Objects:

Meshes:

Utilities:

Here is a good free mpeg encoder that goes up to 640x480:
http://www.tmpgenc.com

This one also includes a free mpeg export plugin for Adobe Premiere:
http://members.home.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html

pvmpov ?

3D Studio MAX R3.1	ii
3ds Max 4.0

Animationshop
Animation Master v8.5L
avi2mpg  iiii
AVI2MPG1
AVI2MPG2 1.24 Beta 13, 
Avimpeg

BB_Avi2Mpg
BLENDER 1.80a
Blender 2.22  iiiii
bmp2avi

cmpeg (FrontEnd) http://stols.net
cmeg	iiiii
cmpeg -f2 -d0 -m0 320x240  
cmpeg -t1 ipb.ctl file%02d.tga
--------
dir /b /on *.tga > frames.lst

----ipb.ctl----
b 8 0 0 1 0
b 8 1 0 0 0
i 4
b 8 0 0 1 0
b 8 1 0 0 0
p 4 1 0
b 8 0 0 1 0
b 8 1 0 0 0
p 4 1 0
b 8 0 0 1 0
b 8 1 0 0 0
p 4 1 0

http://www.tmpgenc.com


Cubase, 
DTA ( Daves Targa Animator )  http://www.europa.com/~dearmad/dta.htm

Forester, 

ImageMagick
MegaPOV-Ray 3.1g for Windows.
Movie2MPEG

Paint Shop Pro
Photoshop
premiere	ii
Object Bender include file

Ray dream Studio
Smacker
Terragen, 
TMPGenc for MPEG-encoding
Truespace 4.0

Vegas pro.
VideoMach 2.5.6   (AVI To MPG)
video mach 2.6.1  ii
VirtualDub	ii

http://users4.50megs.com/enphilistor/irtc.htm
http://www.spiritone.com/~english/cyclopedia/
http://www.radgametools.com 
http://www.edgerton.org
http://hiviz.com/GALLERY/galleries.htm
http://www.puzzlecraft.com/cm/ClockMod.html
http://members.aol.com/inversez/index.html
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/
www.xingtech.com
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm#3DAnim
http://10best.raytrace.com/10best.html
www.3dluvr.com
http://www.gromada.com/index.html
http://www.wozzeck.net/images/gear-mess.html
http://www.rhein-ruhr.de/~schrammel/genesis.html
http://members.aol.com/persistenceofv/anims.htm
http://free.prohosting.com/~olana/povray/povray.html 
http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~matmjg/surfaces
http://www.is.kiruna.se/~cjo/
http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk/3d/blobs/blobs.html
http://www.outerarm.demon.co.uk/graphics/graphics_povray_objects.html