Collection of links

Collection of links (approx alphabetical)

Autodesk - developers of Maya - COTS software capable of manipulating voxels
www.autodesk.com

BVH Bounding Volume Hierarchy paper
http://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/892/full.pdf?sequence=1

Circumcenter (related to Tetgen)
the center of a circle that the triangle in question circumscribes
can also be found by intersecting 3 lines of bisection
(from edge mid point to opposite triangle point)

Cura - 3D printing Software
https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura-software

FreeGLUT
http://freeglut.sourceforge.net
http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel/

freeGLUT for linux:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeglut/2.8.1-2

GLEW
http://glew.sourceforge.net

GLFW
alternative to GLUT
http://www.glfw.org/

GL Graphics Programming Examples
http://www.alecjacobson.com/

openGL interactive camera for MSVS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6RZRPo0O3k

Julia Language
http://julialang.org/

MEDIT .mesh visualization
broken link: http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/~frey/logiciels.

Mesh partitioning paper "inside/outside mesh partitioning with winding numbers..."
http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/winding-number/robust-inside-outside-segmentation-using-generalized-winding-numbers-siggraph-2013-jacobson-et-al.pdf

MIT ComputerGraphics Course
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-837-computer-graphics-fall-2012/index.htm

OpenGl
Installing openGL with MS Visual Studio
http://in2gpu.com/2014/10/15/setting-up-opengl-with-visual-studio/

openGL code examples
https://www.opengl.org/archives/resources/code/samples/simple/

openGL graphics pipeline Overview video
https://youtu.be/98SSgxDe-5A


openGL shader compliation
https://www.opengl.org/wiki/Shader_Compilation

Open VDB
http://www.openvdb.org/download/

installing open VDB on centOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFzVv_2TTg

Scratchapixel general 3D programming tutorials
1. including intro to raytracing
http://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/introduction-to-ray-tracing

Side FX - developers of Houdini (see also Autodesk - developers of Maya)
www.sidefx.com

Siggraph openVDB 2015 slideshows
http://www.openvdb.org/download/openvdb_introduction_2015.pdf
http://www.openvdb.org/download/openvdb_production_2015.pdf

STL
free stl software listing
http://www.3ders.org/3d-software/3d-software-list.html

• MeshLab - Open source software for processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. It also has an extremely fast slide function.
• Google SketchUp plugin - A plugin script to import and export STL files for Google SketchUp. Supports both binary and ASCII import and export.
• STL-viewer - Display and manipulate the contents of stereolithography or STL file.
• Netfabb Studio - a free Windows program for 3D printing to view, edit, analyze and repair STL files.

 
Telemetry, Definition of
http://www.sealtag.org/What%20Is%20Telemetry.html

Tetgen
http://wias-berlin.de/software/tetgen/

TetView Mesh Visalisation Software
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/examples/tetview/tetview.html

alternate tetgen mesh visualizationhttp://www.paraview.org

Tomographical Light Field Synthesis !
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2011/Wetzstein_SIG2011_Layered3D/

Virtual Box
https://www.virtualbox.org/

Voxel Defn - voxel comes from 'volmetric' + 'pixel'
smallet unit in a (hierarchical) Volume

WebGl
see Shader Toy for a nifty example of webGL
https://www.shadertoy.com/

Yum  -linux (redHat) package installation management
sudo apt-get install yum