3D Resouces, Models, Meshes
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A Brief History of The Utah Teapot by SteveBaker (en)
One of the most famous objects in 3d computer graphics a simple round, partly concave
mathematical model of a teapot.
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Toucan.
Toucan Corporation, Tokyo, Japan: fishes, insects, plants in small res models
(the high res ones are on sale at turbosquid). Also some interesting galleries of raytraced
images and some VRML and some photo galleries. (jp, en)
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Turbo Squid (en).
A huge collection of free/fee models for download.
Turbo Squid offers a brokerage service for modelers and people looking for models.
They provide a high speed, searchable database of models with an intuitive user interface.
People who make models available can choose a "price" for obtaining the model.
In many cases, they make them available for free.
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The Free 3D Models in .3ds, .max and .c4d files (en).
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3D CAD Browser by 3Dclub UK. 3D model sharing (en).
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3D Model Sharing by Internet Business Systems, Inc. (IBSystems) (en).
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3D Models by Amazing 3D Graphics, Inc. with free 3d models (en).
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Free 3D Models Download Tradition of Japan
Pages with some free 3d models in classical Japanese Style.
Download as DXF, OBJ and 3DS.
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DMI car 3D models
Many good models of military vehicles, civil cars and racing cars.
Mostly .3ds, .lwo, some .c4d.
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www.sachform.de by Sachform Technology GbR, Jan & Ivo Haeusle (en, de).
A Professional Ressource for High Dynamic Range Imagery - HDRI (.hdr).
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Philo's Home Page by Philo (en).
Images for High Dynamic Range Imagery - HDRI, VR-object gallery, Lego robotics.
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Computer generated plants by Uni-Konstanz (en)
Links and examples on Computer generateed plants.
Also some free models in different formats.
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Bienenfisch Design. Textures, material collections, 3D models,
special effects and animations. Products fur 3d design, architectur,
visualizising, desktop publishing, printing, artwork, games, multimedia,
presentations, print media, video and public relation. (de)
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www.cgtextures.com Many free textures. (en)
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The-Blueprints.com by Onno van Braam (en).
A website with a huge collection of view drawings, templates and blueprints of many objects.
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Cinema 4D - Tutorials and Forums
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www.base80.com - the c4d base (de)
Tips & Tricks, Textures and Tutorials for Cinema4d and Xpresso.
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Cinema 4D for Beginners by Lachans (en) - beginners tuts for C4D.
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www.bonkers.de by Bjoern Marl (en)
A resource for users of CINEMA 4D users - Tutorials, Xpresso, Download, Tips & Tricks.
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Xpresso Anonymous
Xpresso Anonymous can be found here, which offers an
introduction to Xpresso and Thinking Particles.
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www.3d-meier.de by Jürgen Meier (de)
C4D tuts, plugins, texturen. Tutorials about engines and gears with Xpresso.
High Math! Thank you!
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"Jacks Secret Stash" by Jack alias Frank Willeke (de)
A site with many Cinema 4d tutorials, tips and tricks for Xpresso, objects and scenes.
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www.xpresso24.com (en, de, es, ne). A C4D portal.
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www.designnation.de (de)
Some tutorials for Cinema 4D.
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clouds.liquid-light.org by Yu Kei. (de, en)
Ein c4d tut on clouds, skies and landscapes.
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www.meshrooms.com by Siguard Larson (en)
- 3D-Modeling, Raytracing, Animation
A lot of Freestuff for Cinema4D.
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www.cinemax4d.de by Thomas Zeier (de,en)
Plugins for Cinema 4D, like Simple Maker, ePla and FlashEx (.com !)
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www.ruimac.com c4d plugins (.com !) (en)
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www.c4dcafe.com Cinema 4D Forum (en).
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www.c4dnetwork.com/network/ Basis, tips and tricks for Cinema 4D (de).
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en.wikipedia.org Wiki about Cinema 4D (en).
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www.tutorials.de Link list for C4D with forum. (de)
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Blender Tutorials
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www.blender.org With Blender Documentations.
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www.elysiun.com
- a " Independent Blender user site"
Links to Galleries, online-tutorials for "Blender", as well as download.
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blender.jp Japanese Blender pages. (jp)
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en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D
A series of tutorials is also available at wikibooks.org. (en)
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Blender 3D Model Repository by Kator Legaz (en)
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LineDstudio Tutorials by Iosif Budulai (en).
The main goal of LineDstudio.com is to bring Blender and other open source software
to a larger scale of use on professional level and to provide quality learning content
for those who are in interior design or architectural industry.
It also offers collections of chairs, tables, trees, cars, materials and most of the
objects you need for your interior or architectural project to speed up the process.
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POV-Ray Descriptions, Tutorials, Sampel Files
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"POV-Ray Tutorials"
My own technical descriptions (en,de,fr,it).
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Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium
The raytracing pages show an excellent German description also about animations
and a students gallery. (de)
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Asti's "kleine POV-Ray-Seite"
A creativ teacher with a very nice gallery on various subjects, fascinating Lparser images,
interesting German tutorials.
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Martin Bork's Homepage Short POV-Ray Tutorial - a German Tutorial. (de)
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Povray-Guide - Universität Hamburg - MIN-Fakultät - Department Informatik
- A short German tutorial as pdf file. (de)
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Rune|vision - Rune Johannsen
Raytracing gallery, animations, blob tutorial, include-files. (en)
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An Introduction to POV-Ray by Dr. C.-K. Shene, Associate Professor -
Department of Computer Science - Michigan Technological University (en).
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Mike's POV-Ray Page by Mike Kost (en).
Gallery + Webwalk-Tutorials.
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Step by Step "Great Beginners Tutorial"
- a tutorial for POV-Ray by Anson Vogt(en)
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Height Field Tut by NN(en)
A PovRay Tutorial on height_fields.
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3d Art and Raytracing Gallery by Hildur Kolbrun Andresdottir (en).
With a interesting Pov-Ray radiosity tutorial.
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Japanese POV-Ray 3.5 Reference by Manabe (jp).
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Free 3D Graphics Workshop von by Suika (jp).
A Japanese introduction to POV-Ray.
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Prova POV-Ray! di Valentino Condoluci.
- un tutoriale di POV-Ray in Italiano. (it)
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POV-Ray Référence de Fabien Mosen.
- la documentation de POV-Ray en français. (fr)
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POV-Monde - le site francophone des utilisateurs de POV-Ray
by Fabien Mosen, Rodolphe Gelaude, Martial Rameaux, Luis Gomes.
See: "didacticiels", read: isosurfaces pour les nuls "Tentative de tutorial tutoyant" sur
les isosurfaces, en présupposant que le lecteur est nul en maths - a trial of a teaching toutorial about
isosurfaces, admitting that the reader is a zero in mathematics. (fr)
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Didacticiel pour POV-ray par Alexandra Chwetzoff. (fr)
Un POV-Ray cours en français, un didacticiel pour POV-ray.
Un cours simple, facile, illustré. Plein d'exemples et d'astuces.
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Didacticiel pour POV-Ray by Miaou (fr)
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POV-Ray pour faire des plans par Anne Pacalet. (fr)
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Support de formation Pov-Ray par Jean-Michel Grimaldi.
Le support d'une formation Pov-Ray à l'École Centrale Paris. (fr)
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Tutoriel Hamapatch et Blender par Ferdinand.
Avec une galerie. (fr)
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Introduction à POV-Ray par Pierre Schwartz (fr).
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PSTricks - Caustique - Simulation avec POV-Ray by Manuel Luque (fr).
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ALEXV 3D by Alejandro Omar Chocano Vásquez (es)
Buenos tutoriales sobre Povray y Blender y una bonita galería de imágenes.
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www.povray.pl by Adam Druzd (pl)
POV-Ray gallery, tutorials, forum.
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raytracer.hu by Gaf (hu)
A Hungarian POV-Ray site with gallery and tutorials.
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www.raytracer.de - Martin Melcher
A German descriptions about raytracing technics (with a self writen program simular to POV-Ray)
- also with a little gallery.
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Animations with POV-Ray
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Tim Niklas - Nolight
A interesting POV-Ray gallery of 3d images and also some animations. (en)
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Ellissoide by xlatangente. See also: Meravigliose curve in 3D
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Making of a Rose by Robert Alzinger. (en, de)
An interesting and instructive video, made as a POV-Ray animation.
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Shel T. Randall Portfolio by Shel T. Randall (en).
About physics, teaching, computers - 3D computer graphics and 3D animation, many of them made with POV-Ray.
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8860 Technic car
Animation of virtual Lego modells made with POV-Ray by Mark Olie.
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Tom Longtin - 3D Modeling, Visualization and Illustration
Mechanical modells, tensegrity structures, space frames, 3Dpuzzles, knots, loops, tubes, gears, mobius,
Hilbert Cubes - images and animations, VRML. (en)
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Steve Krass - 3D Gallery
- A gallery of images of facinating Lego models (cars, tractors, engeneering etc.) and animations made with POV-Ray. (en)
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Lego technic puppy - Miguel Agullo
A gallery of animations, walking animation include file. (en)
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Animation & Dance by Dr. Wolfgang Beuck. (en, de, es, fr, it)
- The Virtual Amateur Dancing School - an interesting application of amimations made with POV-Ray.
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Ray Tracing Animation and Streaming Video (en) by Ralph Roberts - Creativity.inc.
Animations made with POV-Ray (i. e. a nice animation of my "castle in the desert")
and also a ray tracing gallery.
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La Page de l'Oncle Dom -> Art - par "Oncle Dom" (fr).
Seemless background gifs, gifs animés, Fonds d'écran, Op art.
POV-Ray Videos:-
Saint Peter's church, Leuven / Löwen / Louvain, Belgium – what it should look like -
an animation created in Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray)
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Rangierfahrten im Bahnhof - Shunting in the station eine PovRay-Animation
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Cyclum - Povray Demo Animation
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Antigravity - using PovRay to illustrate how a proposed idea for an antigravity machine might work.
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Truncated Octahedron / Hexagonal Prism / Triangular Prism
An animation made with POV-Ray di Daniel Wyllie L. Rodriguez
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Riders in the storm
a POV-Ray Animation Video. Alexandre Grings - corso di Prof. Dr. Alexandre Cardosono
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O Foguete (V1) - Rocket Start a POV-Ray Animation Video.
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O Foguete (V2) - Rocket Start a POV-Ray Animation Video.
Esse video é prévia de uma animação feita para o AnimaSanta 2008,
um festival anual de animações feito pelos alunos dos cursos de graduação em
Ciência da Computação da Uni-Santanna em são paulo.
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Animacao de carros a POV-Ray Animation Video.
Animacao de carros em povray Leandro Cesar Prates - Uni-Santana Ciências da Computação.
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3D train animation - full a POV-Ray Animation Video.
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POV-Ray-Projekt 2011 von Erek Leepin,
ein Video einer POV-Ray Animation.
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Honda CBX-1000 Motorcycle Engine in POV-Ray + VideoMach,
a video made with POV-Ray + VideoMach.
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Hammond organs,
videos made with POV-Ray by 'treelimb' Jim
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POV-Ray - include files, macros, objects
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POV-Ray Object-Collection of lib.povray.org
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Pov-Objects collection by Micha Riser
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Gilles Tran - Oyonale - 3D art and graphic experiments
See 'POV-Ray objects'. (en,fr)
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Jaime Vives - The Persistance of Ignorance
See 'Techniques/Tools & Objects'. (en,es)
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POV-Ray Objects - My own collection of ready-made objects for POV-Ray (en,es)
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"Povray Include files page" by Chris Colefax. (en)
A great source of interesting macros like i.e. Lens Effects, Spline Macro File, Compressed Mesh and Hair Growth.
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Christoph Hormann's page(en)
"Raytracing", "ISO_CSG" some include files and descriptions, also a little gallery,
many interesting tutorials and include files (see: "programming").
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Mike Williams - Mike’s Litttle Homepage .
A really useful
Isosurface Tutorial (source files for download), also a POSER to POV 3.5 Tutorial and a little gallery of
some raytraced images - computer generated artwork! (en)
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MacMegaPov - Unofficial Macintosh compiles.
A very systematic
isosurface manual (can also been downloaded as a zipped archive) - shows all
the build-in functions by good samples for the parameter. (en)
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Arbaro by Moritz Moeller, Wolfram Diestel (admin). (en)
A great tree generator written in Java also with export for POV-Ray.
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POV-Tree by Gena Obukhov (en)
A great tree generator for POV-Ray.
For use as blob tree with the TOMTREE macro of Tom Aust
or with export as POV-Ray mesh file.
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Xfrog4 and XfrogPlants by Greenworks Organic-Software
A software for modeling and animating Trees, Flowers, Bushes, Organic Architecture and Abstract Organic
Structures. (en)
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www.computerpflanzen.de
About synthetic plant models in computer graphic (en,de)
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POV-Person by Chris Bartlett. (en)
POV-Person includes definitions for body parts, clothing, hair and other objects
plus a set of macros for assembling those components into a representation of a
human figure that matches your specifications.
It is designed to allow people with little prior experience of POV-Ray to add a
person to a POV-Ray scene. The POV-Person library supports animation and the
generation of crowds of randomly defined people.
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Bonsai - b0n541.net
A small POV-Ray gallery with source codes and an arch macro. (en)
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How to Generate Images of Planets
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How to render high quality images of the Earth's surface a POV-Ray utility.
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Rendering Planets by Christoph Hormann.
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Planet texture maps collection at JHT's Planetary Pixel Emporium by James Hastings-Trew.
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Height field compressor (en)
by François Dispot. Creating grass covered areas in POV-Ray with adaptive coverage of a height field.
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World Machine (en)
by Stephen Schmitt, a student at the University of Washington in Seattle. World Machine is a freeware terrain heightfield generator.
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planetGenesis (en)
planetGenesis (pG) is a freeware Java program designed to produce models of planets and landscapes.
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Meme POV-Ray par Christophe Bouffartigue (fr)
Une site POV francophone (ou presque) - avec galerie, include file clothray.
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Greg's boids page by by Greg M. Johnson. (en)
The purpose of this web page is to offer some tips on how to use my boids algorithm
for making flocking particles.
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Ma home page à moi by Jerome M. Berger. (fr)
tutoriels et galeries 3d, Blender (Les Fluides pour les Nuls),
POV-Ray (Cloth Simulator, Linux).
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MegaPOV 1.0 by Nathan Kopp.
MegaPOV 1.0 is based on POV-Ray 3.5, it's an unofficial extensions of POV-Ray with things like some mechanics
simulation, the simulation of cloth and the atmospheric effect glow, etc. (en)
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Laboratoire POV-Ray by Louis Bellotto. (fr)
Gallery, Sample files, Macros : Télécharger(Download) Insert Menu Add-on Mac MegaPOV!
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The Unofficial POV-Ray 3.5 Insert Menu Bonus Pack by Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba.
Insert Menu Bonus Pack with all constants, functions, macros, colors, pigments,
textures, finishes and all other things declared in standard include files. (en)
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Christophe Bouffartigue: clothray(en)
A povray addon cloth patch "clothray" - a good patch to simulate cloth.
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POV-Ray Quickies POV-Ray tricks by Prof. Wolfgang Urban (de).
Materials for mathematic, physic, computer science, Höhere Internatsschule des Bundes Wien 3.
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POV-Ray by Takashi Nishimura, Yokohama National University.
Interesing Japanese POV-Ray samples. (jp)
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Tsutomu Higo - Gallery Cyberbust
One of the top galleries - a creative artist and a good POV-math-teacher!
The source codes for many images are showing the how-to-make this.
Also a special on
"Cyberbust POV-Ray Technique(en,jp)"
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Expanding POV-Ray World by Tantaka (jp).
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Okamoto's Homepage by Okamoto (jp).
A POV-Ray tutorial (jp), an interesting raytracing gallery and "The Mars Room "
- a gallery of raytraced parts of the Mars surface
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Ejemplos PovRay by NN (es).
Some POV-Ray sample files for beginners.
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Link Sites and Newsgroups on POV-Ray, Raytracing and 3D-Computer Graphics
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