The Linux Graphics mini-HOWTO, available at
http://www.csn.net/~mjhammel/linux-graphics-howto.html and
through the Linux Documentation Project,
provides detailed information on where to get
the software mentioned in this article, as well as other resources available on the
net. Each tool listed has information on mailing lists, newsgroups, ftp sites
and web pages, if applicable. I'll cover just a sampling of this information
for some of the tools discussed so far:
The GIMP
type1inst
- Home Page
http://goblet.anu.edu.au/~m9305357/type1inst.html
POV-Ray
- FTP site
ftp://www.povray.org
- Home Page
http://www.povray.org/
XV
- FTP site
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv
OpenGL
- Home Page
http://www.digital.com:80/pub/doc/opengl/
- man pages
http://www.sgi.com/Technology/openGL/glspec/glspec.html
- specifications
http://www.sgi.com/Technology/openGL/glspec/glspec.html
XPaint and PMBPlus/NetPBM are both available from
Sunsite, as are most of the Linux distributions currently available.
There is a companion web site to the Linux Graphics mini-HOWTO:
the Unix Graphics Utilities page:
http://www.csn.net/~mjhammel/povray/povray.html
This page is
devoted to graphics tools for Unix systems in general, and
not Linux exclusively. The main focus of this page is POV-Ray,
and other 3D rendering tools, and
the utilities that have been written to work with them.
There are a few Usenet newsgroups that would be of interest to Linux:
- comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing - discussions about raytracing,
including POV-Ray
- comp.graphics.rendering.misc - general rendering discussions
- comp.graphics.algorithms - general discussions about graphics algorithms
- comp.graphics.api.opengl - discussions about OpenGL
There are not many newsgroups devoted to the use of particular tools
except for tools on other operating systems. I think this is a problem that
the Linux user
community will change as more users of Linux tools form their own user groups.
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