Some Notes and Information Sources for ECE661.
 
 

On Graphics and Image Formats and Compression.

A great source for descriptions of Graphics File Formats.

Keith Rule's (author of 3D Graphics File Formats) Home Page

A thorough source of information on different Image Formats (from the Univ. of Indiana).

The PNG Home Page.

A repository for PNG Source Code and Libraries.

The Graphical File Format FAQ.
 
A Graphics Utility Site for Software: editors, viewers, etc..

Excellent source for Computational Geometry Algorithms and Utilities.

ZDNet's Source for Graphics, Desk-Top and Web Publishing Tools.

A link into Iterated Systems's Fractal Image Compression Gallery.

Some Ports of OpenGL to Java: (thanks to Niel Esary, Noel Llopis, and Arish Ali)

The platforms currently supported by this release are: Linux 2.x ( compiled with Mesa-2.3 ) and Windows95/NT (dynamically linked with SGI OpenGL ).Includes plenty of demonstration programs and example source code.

There are also some non-OpenGL libraries/toolkits for Java:

http://www.inworldvr.com/java3d/

Open Inventor sources

ftp://ftp.tgs.com/openinventor/intel/inv240/readme.1st

FAQ on Open Inventor:

New features of open Inventor

Live3D Information:

Netscape Live3D page
 

VRML Information

VRML Introduction

VRML FAQ

Paragraph's Home Spaces Samples

The Story of VRML

The VRML Repository

The MR Toolkit VR Software 

The VRML 1.0C Specification

a 3DSite: VRML

temple.wrl
 

Access to 'free' shareware on the Web:
The astounding TuCows repository.