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Archive-name: auto/comp.graphics.visualization/Radiosity-Package-Available

In case there is any interest, I have placed a simple public-domain 
radiosity package that I wrote for my masters thesis.

AVAILABLE AT:

The package is available at the following anonymous ftp site:

	nexus.yorku.ca in /pub/reports/Radiosity_code.tar.Z

This site will be changed to ftp.yorku.ca in the near future.

THE PACKAGE:

The package contains C code for a progressive refinement solution
using the following algorithms:

	Wallace (Ray-traced form-factors), 
	Haines (Shaft Culling), using automatric hieriarchical 
	bounding creation (Salmon 87)
	Chen (Progressive refinement with jitter hemicubes)
	A partial implementation of Hanrahans BF-Refinement algorithm.
	
Additionally, there are model preprocessors for conversion from
QuickModel and OFF formats, with geometric contraints of Baum's
91 Siggraph paper partially included; and a scene walk through program
with simple Gouaraud shading.

The solution can be run stand-alone on any Unix box, but the walk-through
requires a SGI 4D.

Please feel free to gripe, fix, or (hopefully) improve :-) the package.
I intend to update the package with some new techniques from this years
papers, time providing.

DOCUMENTATION:

There is some basic documentation provided with the package, as well as
explantations of the algorithms used in my masters thesis, also posted
at the same site in /pub/reports/Radiosity_thesis.ps.Z

Anyways, hope this package is of some use.

(P.S. Just a plug for the graduate program at York: The York CS graduate 
program is new, but up and coming. For those interested, more thesis reports
should become available at the above site. Current there is, in addition,
Edith Li's "Shape from Rotation" thesis presented at this years Vision
Interface '92 conference in Vancouver.)

Cordially,

	Bernard Kwok
	g-kwok@cs.yorku.ca
	Department of Computer Science
	York University, Toronto, Canada.