The best graphic programming sites on the net!

Graphics Programming!

Companies

Caldera Graphics - Creators of imaging tools, image database management systems, peripheral drivers (scanners, printers, CD and recorders) for Unix and Linux platforms.

Fenton F/X - Developers of custom graphics software for GIS, animation, desktop video and the web.

Matrox Imaging: Scientific and Industrial Imaging - Designer and manufacturer of PC-based hardware and software for machine vision, image analysis, medical imaging and video surveillance.

SkyLine Tools - Imaging and multimedia components for application development.

Libaries

AlphaMask Graphics Library - Portable vector graphics library, high end graphics engine for license to desktop applications and embedded systems.

Gabe's 2D Graphics Libraries List - A list of free and commercial graphics libraries, handling primarily 2D graphics.

Libart - A library for high-performance 2D vector and bitmap graphics

little cms (lcms) - lcms is a free, open source, CMM engine. It provides fast transforms between ICC profiles. Source code is also included.

OpenGUI - High-level, cross-platform C/C++ graphics and windowing library built on a fast x86 assembler graphics kernel. [Open Source, LGPL]

OpenPTC - This library provides cross platform low level graphics access.

Solace - A free graphics library still in development.

TDGraphics - allows programmers to write graphics programs transparently run on Unix (X, DGA, GGI) or Windows (DirectX), as fast as possible, while providing a very simple C++ interface.

VeCAD DLL - A commercial 2D vector graphics library, which allows you to add CAD and GIS capabilities to your applications.

Personal Pages

Absolute Brenda - Malaysian living in Finland shares a gallery of 2 and 3D images.

Abstrus - Shows a wide variety of digital art and design. Several styles represented.

ArTyx - A gallery of artwork made in photoshop by Ross Lace. Also has a few poems he has composed.

ASM Creations - Art from the heart. Graphic art from contemporary to wild life by Alraz and Sweet Magic.

At End - Digital image galleries, and links.

Behrnes, Walter - 3d animation, digital and traditional painting, and poetry.

Boz BomB Gallery - 2D and 3D digital images, photos, sketches, and links.

Cavalry ZaaZ's Playground - Digital manipulation, photo composites, and poetry.

Chasm - Gallery of award-winning Photoshop post-processed fractal images.

Chui_Yee - Graphic work to be shared made with Freehand and Photoshop.

Computer Art - Personal computer graphic work made by Greg Wee in Malaysia.

Darkest Dreams - Offers gothic horror, occult, and futuristic dark sci-fi image galleries.

Dawn Hudson - British artist creating cartoon style graphics and illustrations.

DDD - Includes cover, abstract 3d, and experimental art.

Deaddreamer.com - Image galleries rendered in a variety of 3D programs, and Photoshop.

3DFlux.net - Gallery of many forms of digital media, including 3D/2D images, Flash movies/games, and skins.

Digital Influx - A collection of Photoshop graphics and wallpapers, tutorials, and articles.

Digital Mastery Photoshop Gallery - Various Photoshop artwork, tips and tutorials.

Digital Scribble - Ron's digital image and photography galleries.

DigitalWorlds - Karin Kuhlmann shows facets of digital arts in 3D-images, photo-paintings, fractals, abstract paintings, and flower pictures. In English and German.

Don Wong - Digital portfolio.

Duncan Land - The digital and traditional art and animation of Duncan Beck.

EagleWing Galleries - Contain Paint Shop Pro, Terragen, and Vista Pro generated images, and photography.

Eternity - Personal hotspot and personal gallery of Hee Sung Shin.

EtL GfX - 3D Studio Max images, scanned drawings, wallpapers, and startup/shutdown screens.

Fantasy Dimension - Fantasy/sci-fi stories and a small art gallery. There are a few animated gifs.

A Fractal Art and 3D Store - Fractal and 3D image galleries by Kim McNally.

Funbaby - Brandon Palace offers fantasy and horror art, hand-drawn with a Wacom tablet, Photoshop, and Painter.

Graphix Designs - Computer graphics made with Bryce, Photoshop, sPatch, and Paint Shop Pro.

Hypersight Design - Robin Rundkvist's Photoshop rendered image gallery, and Kaleidoscope scheme downloads.

Infinitee Designs - 3D graphics, 2D illustrations, Web Design, sci-fi, fantasy, rock, T-shirts, futuristic, and psychedelic art by Ralph Hawke Manis.

Jasonbenj - Art, animation, design, photo and more.

Jubei Dezign - Gallery and free wallpapers for use for your desktop.

The Kid's PSP Gallery - A collection of Paint Shop Pro rendered images by Tim Sumrall.

Kirsten's Graphics Unlimited - Graphic design site by a designer with some experience in Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark Xpress as well as photography.

Kobalto Design Lab - Experimental 2D and 3D graphics, and photography. Javascript and Flash enabled browser required.

Ryan's Art Site - Graphics, personal information and graphic stuff to download.

Sablehawk.com - A collection of digital and natural media drawings, paintings, and illustrations. You'll also find poetry and prose here.

Screaming Art - Art gallery, tutorials, contest, forum, and links.

Sean Jamieson - Jam Gallery: digital art, airbrushing, cartoons.

Shienar - Computer artwork created with Photoshop, and pencil drawings by Cody Zilverberg.

silisus.com - Photoshop graphics, tutorials, and links.

SynArts - Digital and traditional design and illustration, both 2D and 3D computer graphics.

Unraveled - Contains mostly abstract, non-objective and optical artwork.

Virre Art Zone - 3D and 2D images by Virre.

Zkraut1 Graphics - Showcasing origial 3D graphics, and Flash movies

Graphics Programming!

Websites!

flipCode - Find article, coding techniques, news, and interviews relating to Graphics and (more generally) to Game programming.

GLPRO - GLPRO is a commercial fully-featured programming language which has advanced image, audio and font controls, including native MP3 support, image warping, rotating, tinting and filtering, plus embedded anti-aliased fonts.

A Human's Eye View: Motion Blur and Frameless Rendering - "This paper explores this motion blur and its relationship to: camera open shutter time, current computer graphics motion-blur implementations, temporally anti-aliased images, and the Human Visual System's (HVS) motion smear quality." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.

optimum - A website about the Linux Demo Scene. You can find code examples of a number of graphics effects.

PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia - PCGPE is a compilation of numerous aspects of game programming in MS-DOS.

Swap-Meet - Swap-Meet is an interactive 3D community, composed primarily of NeMo Dev or Creation users.

Win95 Game Programmer's Encyclopedia - Win95GPE is a resource with code for windows graphics, palettes, dibs, and more.

YaHP - Examples in C and Pascal on portal engine rendering, raytracing, and loading .3ds files.

Directories

All Graphics - Links to the best graphics including animations, banners, buttons, backgrounds.

Animations-Galore - Collection of categorized categories of 3-d animated images all images are rated, and have previews. Links to other clip art sites.

Barry's Clipart Server - Free resource for all types of clip art categorized into numerous categories. Also a message board, postcards and color chooser.

Clipart Only by Warp3 - 2000 free clipart images in a large number of categories.

321clipart.com - Over 10,000 free web graphics, featuring over 600 banner blanks all custom designed. 30 categories of free images.

Clipart.com - Directory that points to free graphics and commercial graphics.

Critters - Offers links to sites that feature animal-related clip art, backgrounds, animations and other web graphics.

Free Clip Art Island - Large collection of original free clipart sorted into over 300 categories. Designed with the novice in mind.

Free Clipart - Indexing of links to free clipart images, graphics, animations, icons, lines, clip art, banners, borders, buttons, animations, bars and backgrounds in many different categories.

A11 Free Clipart Network - Thousands of free images in categories of animated gifs, backgrounds, bullets, buttons, clipart, icons, lines, and letters.

Free Graphics - Searchable database of links to free graphics sites.

Free Graphics and Graphic Tools - Free clipart, animation, backgrounds, bullets, bars, borders, icons, logos, banners, holidays and more.

Free Graphics Directory - Database of free graphics sites showing what they offer and ratings for each site.

Freeimages Collections - Source for all-original, royalty-free images on the web.

Graphics Links - Several graphics sites on the net are assembled with descriptions, ratings, and popularity.

Graphics Start4all - Graphics page of the global virtual Internet Site.

The Hassle Free Clip Art Guide - A guide of the best free clip art sites on the net for bars, buttons, backgrounds and animation.

Hyper-Galaxy - Free service that gathers backgrounds all over the internet

NetRats Links - Links to sites that contain backgrounds, buttons, icons, graphics, and clipart.

100 Top Clip Art Sites - View this week's top 100 clip art sites arranged by editors into a comprehensive clip art guide and search engine.

Top-Clipart - A directory that has links to the best clipart and graphics sites on the internet.

UFO Net Resources - Listing of free resources for webmasters and page builders. Also a dll download section for your missing dynamic link library files.

Web Clip Art - A clip art resource site with over 60 categories of topic-specific clip art links.

WebGraphicsZone - Hundreds of free graphics for web pages, including bullets, buttons, backgrounds, clip art, photos, GIF and JPG images.

Webmaster Station - Links to hundreds of free clip art, GIFs, fonts, webpage tools, and animation sites.

WebSources Free Web Graphics - 1000's of free mostly original clipart images in 266 categories including animated GIFs and web graphics. Newly re-designed search feature and graphics database.

Personal Pages

The Lab - Processed and commented photographic objets-trouvés.

Light Trails - Graphics by Shaun G. plus art and comentary on art. All the images created or edited on the site are made using Corel Photo Paint.

Marcus Art - A small simple site made for the purpose of showing his works made with Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.

Mas-yago.net - A portfolio of photo manipulations, and composites.

Maylink - Digital art, illustration, photography, animation, and poetry.

MaZtudios - 3D art, illistration, and animation.

Melanie Jordan - Computer graphics and digital photography.

The Merry Cat - Original artwork turned into e-cards. Also the artist offers free web graphics, backgrounds, buttons.

Metacreative Trend - Contains fan-art from games such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Chross, and Xenogears, and also includes some original art.

Mt. McKinley Productions - Digital and scanned drawing and painting, and 3D character models.

Musings - A display of Java applets, created using David Griffith's Lake Applet and Anfy.

Node 8 - Photoshop rendered graphics, ranging from desktop wallpapers, to pictures, textures, and skins. Also some poetry, and programming.

Paul Duquesnoy - Illustrations using Photoshop & Lightwave 3D.

The Penguins Joker - 2D and 3D renderings created with Blender and the Gimp.

Photoshop Gallery - Pure Photoshop images, photo manipulations, and Bryce artwork.

Pixelalley.com - Jinny Brown's image galleries created mostly with Painter and Bryce, as well as Painter tutorials.

Pixelcatalyst - Showcases images produced mainly with Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Poser. Forum, and comprehensive graphics links are also available.

QuagVision - Terragen and Bryce generated images, photography and links.

Robi's - Web portfolio: 3d models, animations, drawings, logos.

Algorithms and Data Structures

FAQSYS - A wealth of programming links, including 3D/2D math, fractals, optimization, compression, video cards, graphics file formats.

Algorithm's Computer Graphics and Simulation Hot-list - A weekly updated collection tutorials for beginners, how-to resources, theoretical resources and Non-product content-oriented links for computer graphics and simulation resources.

BSP Tree FAQ - How to manipulate and use binary space partition (BSP) trees.

comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions - Basic computations frequently needed in graphics.

3D Coding Blackhole - A tutorial series discussing several aspects of 3D graphics programming, in C. Topics include mathematical background, transformations, polygon filling, clipping, hidden surface removal, texture mapping, and shading.

2D special effects - A master thesis about various 2D special effects, with example movies.

DDJ, July 1995: BSP Trees - Implementing and Using BSP Trees: Fast 3-D sorting

Exaflop - Articles of interest to computer graphics.

Faster 3D Graphics by Not Drawing What Is Not Seen - Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.

Geometry - Various links and info on geometry, including several algorithms.

Graphics Gems Repository - The official site for source code, errata, and addenda to the Graphics Gems book series.

Hugues Hoppe's Homepage - A collection of research graphics articles.

Implicit Surfaces - 3D modeling using implicit surfaces blended based on a CSG tree. Publications on the theory, picture gallery, and links.

Ken Turkowski's Contributions in Computer Graphics - Antialiasing, color spaces, testure mapping, shading, geometry, image registration, numerical computation, open source articles.

Levels of Detail and Polygonal Simplification - "This paper covers the techniques of Polygonal Simplification in order to produce Levels of Detail (LODs). The problem of creating LODs is a complex one: how can simpler versions of a model be created? How can the approximation error be measured? How can the visual degradation be estimated? Can all this be done automatically? After exposing the basic aims and principles of polygonal simplification, we compare recent algorithms and state their various qualities and weaknesses. " Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.

Map Projection - Very basic grey page with some useful links on map projection.

Map Projection Overview - Everything you always wanted to know about map projections, and then some.

Portal Technique for Real-time 3D Engines - This document describes how you can render a set of 3D polygons using the portal technique.

PseudoGrey - PseudoGrey algorithm allows accurate encoding and decoding of 1786 levels of grey within a 24-bit image; text overview, sample images, and a Java test program can be found at this site.

Ray Tracing News - An infrequent newsletter on ray tracing and general computer-graphics research and resources.

Ray Tracing News Index - Hand-built topic index to some of the articles.

Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes (ROAM) - A paper describing a method for continuously maintaining view-dependent triangular meshes to achieve desired frame rates.

Representing a Camera in a 3D Real-time Engine - This article describes how you can use a 3x3 matrix and a vector to represent a camera in a 3D viewing system.

Shadow Generation Algorithms - This page gives a link to a (compressed postscript) paper on a shadow generation algorithm.

STEEL's Programming Resource Page - A website with information, explanations, and source code about 3D graphics.

Stylized Depiction - Survey of non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) for computer graphics and animation: painterly rendering, toon shading, painterly image processing, and simulation of traditional artistic media.

VDSlib: A View-Dependent Simplification Package - Public domain package for view-dependent simplification and rendering of polygonal environments.