DrPetter
Peter
Taron3D Resources
For anyone stumbling across this..
This is a work in progress. In a nutshell, it will be over ten years worth of Links to 3D related content.
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3D resources
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3D resources\3D Communities
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3D World – The Magazine For 3D Artists
http://www.3dworldmag.com/
3DM3.com – World’s Computer Graphics Community
http://www.3dm3.com/
Akta’s Way – Blog
http://www.aktasway.com/blog/
CG Channel
http://www.cgchannel.com/
cgCoach.com
http://www.cgcoach.com/beta/index.php
Computer Arts – Home
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/home
Creature Spot
http://www.creaturespot.com/
HDRI 3D
http://www.hdri3d.com/index.php
cghub
http://cghub.com/
Subdivision Modeling
http://www.subdivisionmodeling.com/forums/index.php
Taron – Gallery of works in 3D, 2D and music
http://www.taron.de/
The Sculptors Corner home page
http://www.thesculptorscorner.com/
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3D resources\3D Models
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3D artists free models
http://artist-3d.com/index.htm
3D Model Download,Free 3D Models Download
http://www.3dmodelfree.com/
3DXtras.com
http://www.3dxtras.com/index.asp
Aim@Shape Project – Shape Repository
http://shapes.aim-at-shape.net/index.php
ARC 3D Webservice
http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~visit3d/webservice/v2/
Artist 3D
http://artist-3d.com/
Blender Model Repository
http://e2-productions.com/repository/index.php
Blendswap.com
http://www.blendswap.com/
Buy 3D Models – Your CG Marketplace
http://buy3d.net/
Content Paradise
http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/home.php?poser6install
Free 3D Models
http://www.huntfor.com/3d/links.htm
GraphicLab
http://www.graphiclab.eu/
Great Buildings Online
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/models/models.html
Great Buildings
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
LineDstudio.com – Your source for 3d visualization
http://www.linedstudio.com/
Mr. Furnature
http://www.mr-cad.com/Free-3D-Models-c-19-1.html
wirecase
http://www.wirecase.com/home_s-100_v-100-1.html
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3D resources\3D Tools
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2d3 Welcome to 2d3, the virtual interchangeable with the real
http://www.2d3.com/
3D canvas
http://www.amabilis.com/
3D-Coat
http://www.3d-coat.com/
3D Tree Generator
http://www.tree-generator.com/
8monkey Labs
http://www.8monkeylabs.com/archives/171
8monkey Labs
http://www.8monkeylabs.com/
Aartform Curvy 3D
http://www.curvy3d.com/
An Ivy Generator
http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/
ArtRage Home
http://www.artrage.com/index.html
Blacksmith3D
http://www.blacksmith3d.com/
BlenderPeople0.8
http://www.harkyman.com/bp.html
BRL-CAD Open Source Solid Modeling
http://brlcad.org/
CB Model Pro – Easy 3D Modeling
http://www.cbmodelpro.com/
CrazyBump
http://www.crazybump.com/
Delftship Site – Home
http://www.delftship.net/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
DoGA English Page
http://www.doga.co.jp/english/
EQUINOX-3D
http://www.equinox3d.com/
Freestyle
http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/
Arcus
http://freshmeat.net/projects/arcus/
GemCad for Windows
http://www.gemcad.com/
Hash Inc., Creators of Animation Master
http://www.hash.com/
headus UVLayout
http://www.uvlayout.com/
Home – Art of Illusion
http://www.artofillusion.org/
Home – Side Effects Software Inc.
http://www.sidefx.com/
joealter
http://www.joealter.com/
Ink9000
http://inkulator.sourceforge.net/
insight3d – opensource image based 3d modeling software
http://insight3d.sourceforge.net/
JPatch homepage
http://www.jpatch.com/
K-3D
http://www.k-3d.org/
Luxology
http://www.luxology.com/
maxon
http://www.maxon.net/
MeshLab
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
MeshMixer
http://meshmixer.com/index.html
Mirye Software
http://www.mirye.net/
Nevercenter.com
http://www.nevercenter.com/
NormalMapCompressor
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/directx/NormalMapCompressor.aspx
Ocean Sim
http://www.savetheoceansim.com/blog/
OpenFX
http://www.openfx.org/index.html
Oxygen Light – Bohemia Interactive Community
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Oxygen_Light
pixplant Great 3D Textures, Quickly
http://www.pixplant.com/
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software Solutions
http://www.ptc.com/index.htm
Shadermap
http://shadermap.renderingsystems.com/
ShapeShop
http://www.shapeshop3d.com/index.html
Spiral Graphics – Genetica Seamless Texture Editor
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/gen2tour/index.htm
Sweet Home 3D
http://www.sweethome3d.com/index.jsp
TreeGenerator
http://www.treegenerator.com/
UNFOLD3D
http://www.polygonal-design.fr/e_unfold/index.php
Unwrella
http://www.unwrella.com/
Voxelogic
http://www.voxelogic.com/
xNormal FAQ
http://www.xnormal.net/Faq.aspx
[w]tech engine – Mod DB
http://www.moddb.com/engines/wtech
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3D resources\Elevation data (SRTM)
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Elevation Products – USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) EROS, Sioux Falls, SD
http://eros.usgs.gov/products/elevation/
Virtual Terrain Project
http://vterrain.org/
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3D resources\Gaming resources
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3D Game Programming Gamespace 3D Game Design Tools Download
http://www.gamediscovery.com/game-design/3d-game-programming-gamespace-3d-game-design-tools.asp
Blender Games – Home
http://blender-games.webs.com/
BSoD-Introduction to the Game Engine – BlenderWiki
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_the_Game_Engine#An_overview_of_the_tutorial.2C_and_skills_required
Crystal Space 3D
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Main_Page
Virtual Universe
http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtualuniverse/
Game Content Resources – GPWiki
http://gpwiki.org/index.php/Game_Content_Resources
Myst Online
http://mystonline.com/en/
UDK – Unreal Development Kit – Epic Games
http://www.udk.com/
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3D resources\Manufacturing
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3D Creation Lab
http://www.3dcreationlab.co.uk/
3D Systems
http://www.3dsystems.com/default.asp
Big Blue Saw
http://www.bigbluesaw.com/
BlendCam.py
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blendcam/
CarveWright.com
http://www.carvewright.com/2010CWweb/index.htm
DE – Desktop Engineering
http://www.deskeng.com/
Desktop Factory Our Product
http://www.desktopfactory.com/our_product/
EOS Electro Optical Systems
http://www.eos.info/en/home.html
i.materialise
http://i.materialise.com/blender
MakerBot Industries – Robots That Make Things.
http://www.makerbot.com/
Materialise
http://www.materialise.com/materialise/view/en/65854-Homepage.html
Metal Casting
http://www.metalcastingzone.com/
Moddler
http://www.moddler.com/
Oregon – Emerge Tech
http://www.emerge-inc.com/index.php
Ownage Manufacturing
http://www.ownage.com/
Ponoko – Buy Make and Sell Almost Anything
http://www.ponoko.com/
PyCAM
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pycam
Quality Transmission Components
http://www.qtcgears.com/
Rapid Prototyping info
http://wwv.rapidprototypingonline.com:8567/
Rapidform
http://www.rapidform.com/
Shapeways
http://www.shapeways.com/
Splinescan
http://www.splinescan.co.uk/index.php
Stratasys Inc.
http://www.stratasys.com/
THE RAPID PROTOTYPING HOME PAGE
http://home.utah.edu/~asn8200/rapid.html
V-Flash Desktop 3D Printing
http://www.modelin3d.com/
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3D resources\MoCap and Animation
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Animazoo
http://www.animazoo.com/
Animeeple – Create your own 3D animations
http://www.animeeple.com/
Blender Motion Kit
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jb.perin/BlenderMotionKit/doc/BlenderMotionKit.html
Cheap Motion Capture
http://motion.capture.free.fr/index.html
CMU Graphics Lab – motion capture library
http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/
Credo Interactive Inc – 3D character animation software products
http://www.credo-interactive.com/products/index.html
digilab – Voodoo
http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html
Dynamic Animation aNd Control and Environment
http://www.arishapiro.com/dance/
Free Motion Capture Data
http://freemotionfiles.blogspot.com/
GAMMA
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/
gfx.motion-capture
http://gfx-motion-capture.blogspot.com/
Home of SynthEyes Camera Tracking
http://www.ssontech.com/index.html
Icarus
http://www.colinlevy.com/tuts/IcarusTutorials/Icarus.php
libmv – Project Hosting on Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/libmv/
MIT – Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters
http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/autorig/
mocapdata.com
http://mocapdata.com/
MotView 0.8
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-2000/Students/gardner/motView/index.html
NaturalMotion
http://www.naturalmotion.com/index.htm
OptiTrack – Optical Motion Capture
http://www.naturalpoint.com/optitrack/
PFhoe.com
http://www.pfhoe.com/
The Pixel Farm®
http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/
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3D resources\Online worlds
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Alice.org
http://www.alice.org/
Forterra Systems
http://www.forterrainc.com/
Frenzoo
http://www.frenzoo.com/beta/
imvu
http://imvu.com/
Multiverse
http://www.multiverse.net/index.html
OpenSim
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
Scalable City by Sheldon Brown
http://www.scalablecity.net/
The WorldForge Project
http://worldforge.org/
There.com
http://www.there.com//
Twinity
http://www.twinity.com/en
vrNav2 – 3D scene navigator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vrnav/
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3D resources\Render engines
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Aqsis Renderer Freedom to Dream
http://www.aqsis.org/
Arion
http://randomcontrol.com/arion
Axiom
http://axiom3d.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Blender Rendering Engine Options at BlenderNation
http://www.blendernation.com/2006/03/10/blender-rendering-engine-options/
blenderRenders
http://www.blenderrenders.com/index.html
Caustic Graphics Realtime Raytracing
http://www.caustic.com/index.php
Corefarm – speed matters
http://www.corefarm.com/
dna research – home
http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php/home
Gelato
http://blogs.nvidia.com/gelato/
GPU-RT
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpurt/
Green Button
https://www.greenbutton.co.nz/
How To Building Your Own Render Farm
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/render-farm-node,2340.html
igneus
http://www.igneus.co.uk/
Kerkythea
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php
LuxRender
http://www.luxrender.net/
Mitsuba – physically based renderer
http://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/
Octane Render (GPU)
http://www.refractivesoftware.com/index.html
OGRE – Open Source 3D Graphics Engine
http://www.ogre3d.org/
Parthenon Renderer
http://www.bee-www.com/parthenon/
Pixie – Open Source RenderMan
http://www.renderpixie.com/
Pixie
http://www.renderpixie.com/
POV-Ray
http://www.povray.org/
RenderSpud
http://renderspud.blogspot.com/
ResPower
http://www.respower.com/
Sunflow
http://sunflow.sourceforge.net/
Toxic
http://www.toxicengine.org/
Thea Render
http://www.thearender.com/cms/
WinOSi
http://www.winosi.onlinehome.de/
yadra – yet another distributed rendering appl.
http://blendoli.googlepages.com/yadra
YafaRay
http://www.yafaray.org/
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3D resources\Textures and Materials
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3dtotal freetextures
http://freetextures.3dtotal.com/index.php
Allegorithmic MaPZone
http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/
Amazing Textures
http://amazingtextures.com/textures/
Blender Open Material Repository
http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php?p=7
brendonmurphy1 – Material Library’s
http://brendonmurphy1.googlepages.com/materiallibrary%27s
CrazyBump
http://www.crazybump.com/
Creative Elements
http://creativity103.com/index.htm
FREE STOCK IMAGES
http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/index.htm
Free Textures from TextureKing
http://www.textureking.com/
FreePhotos Stock Photo Images
http://www.turbophoto.com/FreePhotos.html
Meta’s Material Library (androcto)
http://sites.google.com/site/androcto/Home/meta-s-material-library
MTL Files – Material Definitions for OBJ Files
http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~burkardt/data/mtl/mtl.html
NewTek
http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/
openfootage
http://www.openfootage.net/
Texture Warehouse
http://www.texturewarehouse.com/gallery/
TextureArchive.com
http://www.texturearchive.com/
texturemate.com
http://texturemate.com/
Textures – brick
http://ozviz.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture_colour/brick/
The Area Textures
http://area.autodesk.com/downloads/textures
[CG Textures] – The worlds largest free texture site
http://www.cgtextures.com/
Blender Texture Disc
http://www.tellim.com/texture_cd/
Image After
http://www.imageafter.com/
Texture Bin 342
http://www.digitalcraftsman.com/textureBin/textureBin.htm
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3D resources\Web development
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3DMLW – 3D Markup Language for Web
http://www.3dmlw.com/
LiveGraphics3D
http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~kraus/LiveGraphics3D/
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