Chan Chi Hay's Computer Graphics

CHAN CHI HAY'S
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PAGE

"One may say the sky is small when one looks from the bottom of a well. Actually, the sky is not small, small is what one sees." ^*
This is an old Chinese maxim which applies well to computer graphics; what many people have seen does not describe how computer graphics have been done around the world.
Another Chinese maxim, which follows the first one, is:
"Summer bugs can never tell ice not because there is no ice but they can never see ice." ^*
Just like you cannot tell what SIRDS/SIS looks like if you cannot see them.
* Clip form Knowledge And Travel original in Chinese, translated in English by me.

So let us travel, not surf, computer graphics including surface modeling, ray tracing, single image stereogram, animation, virtual reality and fractal.

	Surface Modeling:
	You may like to see my works done by 3D Studio.

3D Studio R4 and the 3D Studio Max, powerful modeling tools developed by Knetix and published by Autodesk Inc.
Viewpoint DataLabs. The largest collection of 3D Models anywhere.
3D Studio Stuff form The Cheese Shop!
trueSpace3, recently released. 3D modeling (with ray tracing) tool runs in Windows by Caligari.

Ray Tracing:

The Ray Tracing Home Page.
The Official POV-Ray CDROM. Official Internet home for the popular FREEWARE ray tracer, POV-Ray.
Polyray. After you have visited this page, you may like to get a copy of it(426 Kb) or its utilities(146 Kb), documentation(88 Kb) and data file(415 Kb).

Single Image Stereogram, SIS (Single Image Random Dot Stereogram, SIRDS):

3-D and SIRDS images.
Great Document. Get a general understanding of stereograms. Choose the topic among Create, General or Misc you want.
KALI's World of Stereograms (SIRDS & SIS)
Want some software? It is now unavailable. I'll keep on to see where it has been moved. So now try Shareware.com for the software.
Magic Eye Stereograms, a lot of stereogram images.

Animation:

If you want some software that can help you to put inline animation on your page, download GIFCON.EXE, the GIF Construction Set that fully utilize and manipulate GIF format including multi-image (with full tag/flag setting), transparent and interlace.
Here are some examples:
- The animated star at GRAPHIC ARTISTS GUILD,
- the Animated Fractals,
- a small animated GIF at Kids' Space.
- and my animated image morphing from my face to my daughter's.
You must use Netscape 2.0 to view the inline animated GIFs on the Web or the GIF Construction Set itself.
GIFCON.EXE was published by Alchemy Mindworks Inc which publish Graphic Workshop for Windows (a powerful graphic utility that can display and extract frames from animations, read multiple image GIFs and support almost any raster formats).
If you appreciate Hollywood SFX such as The Terminator, you like morph. You try it yourself. Get a copy of WinMorph V1.6x and have fun. Or you may find other morph software at shareware.com.
How to combine a series of image to animation? DTA (Dave's TGA Animator) will help combining a series of image to a single FLI/FLC file. It reads TGA, GIF, IMG (file created by Stephen Coy's Vivid raytracer) and PCX files.

Virtual Reality:

Open Virtual Reality Testbed Home Page To facilitate the development of standard interfaces and testing methodologies to the many novel types of human interface devices which when integrated form a Virtual Reality system.
Division Ltd VR Hotlist
Liquid Image Corporation VR Products. they manufacture and retail a full range of VR peripherals including head mounted displays, positional trackers, data gloves, and 3D software

Virtual Reality - VRML(Virtual Reality Modeling Language):

VRML Repository is an impartial network resource for the dissemination of information relating to VRML.
P a p e r S o f t w a r e, maker of WebFX VRML software. With WebFX, runs under Windows 3.1x, many cool VRML pages will be open for you.
VRML Site Directory WEBFX'S DIRECTORY OF VRML WEB SITES.
Virtus Corporation. is the award-winning developer of virtual reality, 3-D modeling, and multimedia products including the Virtus Player, the premier 3-D model publishing utility, and Virtus Voyager, a free VRML browser for the Macintosh (68k and Power Macintosh) and Windows95 (Win3.1 not available).
Star Wars Rebel VRML Files and Star Wars Empire VRML Files, Brian describes his site as "a collection of Star Wars-related VRML worlds, including ships, robots, and scenes from the Star Wars trilogy."
(This is one of many links on Virtus Corporation Home Page. I need to point it out because it is worth to visit even though you don't have any VRML browser.)

Fractal:

fractint_info. Informations on Fractint, the most famous fractal generator and it is a freeware.
FRACTINT distribution. If you want to download Fractint, you can directly go to this page.
Spanky Welcome, the Spanky Fractal Database. This is a collection of fractals and fractal related material for free distribution on the net.
The Fractal Art Parade Douglas Cootey's works and his links.
Animated Fractals. Now it has get to its category. Thanks to the animations, everyone will understand Manelbrot Set well.
Fractal Frequently Asked Questions and Answers. Want to know more about fractal?

Gallery

Art Gallery 3D Graphics by Mark Dhand.

* As Knowledge And Travel said, don't be a country boy, you must have some knowledge before you go.

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