Links to miscellaneous resources that will be helpful will appear here during the course of the semester.

Ray Tracing Resources

• Gotsman, Elber, Barequet, Karni, Sheffer have beautiful examples and nice summary notes on ray tracing
• http://fuzzyphoton.tripod.com/rtref.htm - recommended for its discussion of bounding volume hierarchies.
• http://www.openrt.de/Applications/volumert.php - recommended for links to paper in ray tracing symposium.
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060805-7430.html - discussion of real-time ray tracing.
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/1999/AGraphHCI/SMAG/node2.html - discussion of polygon/ray intersections.
• http://fuzzyphoton.tripod.com/ - implementations advice.
• http://www.groovyvis.com/other/raytracing/index.html - tutorial.
• http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/modelling_rendering/aliasing/ - anti-aliasing.
• http://softsurfer.com/Archive/algorithm_0105/algorithm_0105.htm - more complex but faster ray\triangle.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kd_tree - optimizing data structures for ray tracers.
• http://math.ucsd.edu/~sbuss/MathCG/RayTrace/raytrace_3.0_intro.html - example ray tracer, including a .obj parser.
• http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/nickamy/raytracer/raytracer.htm - uses OpenGL for optimization.
• http://www.devmaster.net/articles/raytracing_series/part1.php - good simple ray tracer in C++ (no copying!).