New information

• A new standard for XML 3D scene description.
• For the distributed message passing side, I highly recommend googling "java soap" and "java web services", though this may not be efficient enough for us.
• If we want to quickly be able to use 3d studio max scenes, I suggest making an "ASE" parser. Google "3dsmax ase" or check out: A quick intro to ASE.
• Alias|Wavefront OBJ object file format
• Common 3D Object intersections

Raytracer Information

• Jacco Bikker's Raytracing Tutorial Series. GO HERE FIRST. Also, read the entire series, please. The links to the next tutorial in the series are at the top right of the page.
• C3D.
• Siggraph Raytracing page.
• Hugo Elias' very helpful physics/graphics pages. More specifically:
  • Hugo Elias' page on global illumination (radiosity).

Scene Description Language

X3D Resources

• http://www.web3d.org/ The X3D homepage
• http://www.xj3d.org/ Open source Java implementation of X3D
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D X3D on Wikipedia

Other cool stuff related to syntax

• http://www.ozonehouse.com/ContextFree/