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Assistant Professor of
Computer Science
cwyman@cs.uiowa.edu
Office: 101J MacLean Hall
Phone: (319) 353-2549
Fax: (319) 335-3624

Mailing Address:
14 MacLean Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1419

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Useful Graphics Software and Utilities:

For OpenGL:GLEWthe OpenGL Extension Wrangler.
GLEEanother OpenGL utility for managing GL Extensions.
GL TutorsNate Robins' OpenGL and GLUT tutorials.
Redbookan electronic archive of the code in the OpenGL Programming Guide.
MovieMakerextremely crude code for capturing Windows OpenGL renders to video.
For Rendering:PBRTthe renderer from the textbook Physically Based Rendering.
LuxRendera GPL'd version of the PBRT renderer.
OptiXa GPU-based ray tracing API from NVIDIA. (Needs Quadro GPU!)
BARTscenes for benchmarking real-time ray tracing (and code to parse them).
Radiancean open source ray tracer started by Greg Ward.
For Models:Blenderan open source 3D modeler and "content creation suite."
SketchUpa simple 3D modeler with seamless access to Google's 3D Warehouse.
QSlima mesh simplifier written by Michael Garland.
PolyMendera utility to clean meshes and create watertight models, by Tao Ju.
GLMsimple C code to read many .obj models, by Nate Robins.
For Visualization:VTKthe visualization toolkit, on open source API controlled by Kitware.
For Algorithms:CGALthe computational geometry algorithms library.
MeshLaba library for reading, processing, and editing triangle meshes.
libNoisea library for generating noise.
For Video:DivXa MPEG4 codec used for videos accompanying paper submissions.
Xvidan open source codec that reads/writes MPEG4 videos.
MPlayeran open source video player and encoder.
For Vision:OpenCVa library implementing many computer vision algorithms.
Last Modified: Friday, February 13, 2009
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