Avalon Avalon is the popular 3-D internet archive site at ftp.cdrom.com, formerly at chinalake.navy.mil
Get demo and trial versions of commercial Software including: • Bubble3D v2.0 DEMO • Real3D, windows based graphics/animation package • Real Light 2.1, complete demo package • Caligari's TrueSpace, a functional demo • Vector Reality version 1.1 and Version 1.2 • Softimage demos • Morph Packages • Renderer Packages • Computer Graphics Resource Listing
Enjoy lots of resources for graphics programmers and artists including: • Hundreds of Texture Images and 3-D objects (These files are in Macintosh and PC format and for many of them, you need your own object viewer) • File Format Information and conversion utilities • Programmer's guide to object formats, including Drawing Interchange and File, Wavefront .obj, OFF, POL 3D (PostScript), Imagine 2.0, Neutral File Format, 3D Studio, Chunk Type 18 (FLI_PSTAMP), Animation Pro Cel Files • Source code and Tools for 3-D wireframe graphics, both in binary an Csource forms. • Applications and Programs, including POV Raytracer • Radiance models • Strata StudioPro models • Video card hardware programming source code and techniques • Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Included graphic formats: • 3D Studio • Alias Sketch • TPoly • AOFF • ArchiCAD • AutoCAD dxf • DKB raytracer • IGES • Raw • Extended NFF • SGI Inventor • Wavefront objects & textures • Povray V2.2 • Amiga LightWave • Povray V2.2 Scene • Neutral File Format (used by SPD) • Neutral File Format (used by WTK) • NURBS (spline surfaces) • Many more!