Graphics links post

Its been a while since I've done a link post, (almost five months) so time to catch up! From the demoscene and WebGL world we have:

• Google released WebGL 3d graphs
• Moleman 2 demoscene documentary trailer, and the documentaries themselves.
• Jochen Wilhelmy (Digi/Alcatraz) gave a talk at Revision on Exporting 3D scenes from Maya to WebGL using clang and llvm with Inka3d.
• The Plasticator open source 64k demo tool
• In an attempt to out-do themselves, Farbrausch released the code to Werkkzeug4
• Nop Jiarathanakul has a collection of source code at github on raymarching distance fields in WebGL
• Sway4k WebGL demo
• Rocket synchronises music and events/parmateres with a number of interpolation modes.
• WebGL particle love hearts, very pretty.
• Martti Nurmikari's demoscene source code for Brainstorm demos
• Riccardo Gerosa wrote a nice post on raymarching ocean waves with WebGL
• It's worth visiting the WebCL website as it is being constantly updated with new examples from Samsung and Nokia.
• The Opera guide to WebGL
• Iñigo Quílez has a lovely video on making music with maths.

In games we have:

• Fabien Sanglard posted a code review of Another World with a nice explanation of the VM and graphics, well worth a read!
• AltDev posted AltDevConf videos, including videos on PowerVR, Dynamic GI, Behaviour Trees, C#, Influence AI, and more.
• Prince of Persia source code found, you can download the PoP code for Apple II.
• Angry Fish Studios has a visual post on representing tilemaps efficiently with bitmasks
• Gijs-Jan Roelofs posted code and an explanation on generating laser FX in OpenGL
• Angelo Pesce has an interesting post onnormal maps
• A short list of free 3d games models
• Haaf's 2d Game Engine has a Haaf's Game Engine unix port.
• Crytek presentations. Enough said.
• Insomniac games research page.
• The Valve handbook for new employees and Michael Abrash's post on working at Valve.
• On the lighter side, a bearded dragon playing the ant crusher game

In tools and research we have:

• A link collection of all the SIGGRAPH course notes
• PowerVR articles on everything from OpenRL (open ray tracing library) to PVR texture compression and parallax bumpmapping. A mini (PowerVR) version of ATI and nVidia's article and tools collection.
• GNU Plotting covers tips and tricks for generating graphs and plots with GNU plot.
• Autodesk's free photofly lets you create 3d models from photos.
• Insight3D is an open source image based modeling (3D models from photos) software package.
• openFrameworks is a cross-platform C++ toolkit for making realtime visual productions, interfacing to OpenGL, GLEW, FMOD, FreeType, Quicktime, etc.
• FXGen is an open source procedural texture generator.
• libnoise is an open source noise (e.g. perlin) generator.
• Robert Schneider maintains a list of mesh generation software for all your triangulation and surface, grid, tetrahedron generation needs.
• Cyril Crassin posted his thesis on GigaVoxels.
• 3D voxel sculpting with 3d-coat.
• Sculptris is 3D sculpting software, similar to Zbrush.
• AN IMAging Library supports a number of file formats, and also simple image operations such as distance transforms.
• Pedro Felzenszwalb has some image distance transform code
• Sander van Rossen's open source Winforms library for node/graph based user interfaces.

And other interesting things:

• The batman equation.
• An interesting timeline of 3D in movies
• Andy Sloane explains his Donut ascii renderer and provides the code for the curious.
• A short youtube presentation on how your eye works and blindspots
• Take the online color challenge, how well can you see hue?

I'll leave you with the winning 64k intro from Revision: