Resources

Pixar Texture Collection

In ~dave/data/Pixar/ is a copy of the Pixar texture library. This is a collection of 77 images of things such as bricks, wood, fabrics, water, and clouds, designed for use as textures. They are 512 x 512 RGB TIFF images, and can tile repeatedly in both directions.

Other Texture Resources

Sites on the web with free texture collections include:

• ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/sci/virtual-reality/graphics/texture/
• http://www.mayang.com/textures/
• http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/textures.asp
• http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/patterns/patterns.htm
• http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/textures/texture1a.asp
• http://www.noctua-graphics.de/english/freetex_e.htm
• http://www.ender-design.com/rg/backidx.html
• http://www.amazing3d.com/services/textures.html - free samples from a commercial collection
• http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/ - maps of the planets
• http://www.oken3d.com/links/freetextures.html - directory of links

Some other sources of images that may be useful:

• http://www.stamphistory.net/allpics/
• http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
• http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/
• http://www.geocities.com/ginis/

Sounds

We have a copy of a 10+ CD sound effects library, that can be checked out from the equipment window. Sounds can be grabbed from CDs on the Linux machines using the command cdda2wav.

www.3dcafe.com also has a collection of free sound effects for download.

Models

Some sets of free models in OBJ format are in ~dave/data/models/. My libwave library may be used for rendering them in OpenGL programs (although the library may need a bit of updating).

Other free models can be found on the web at places such as www.3dcafe.com, www.amazing3d.com, and www.3dsite.com, in various formats.

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