todd

Links, links, links

This is part one of a lengthy post. As the title implies, this is the links portion of the CTIN 548 post:

-World Building-

Codex Seraphinianus: http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html
Everyone who has talked to me in the last year probably wants me to stop talking about this book by now. I still rank this as one of the most intriguing books I've ever heard of, in concept, exectution, and implication. A surreal encyclopedia of an alien planet (though oddly similar to ours) written in an as yet undeciphered language. There isn't too much on this site, but there's more here than anywhere else I've found on the 'net, plus it has a few decent links to Serafini's other work.

http://www.hut.fi/~vesanto/world.build.html
Focus of role-playing game stuff, but has a lot of good links to externals sites as well.

http://www.io.com/~eighner/world_builder/world_builder_index.html
A link to a few other links, plus a long checklist.

-Technical Stuff-

http://www.gamedev.org/yabbse/
http://nehe.gamedev.net/
OpenGL Tutorials, among other things. I think it was michael Steffen who posted this earlier, but nehe especially is a great site that I've been using.

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/opengl/redblue/
Anaglyphs in OpenGL. I like anaglyphs.

http://www.rainbowsymphony.com/3dlinkz.html
3D (Stereo, not polygon) links page

http://www.3dluvr.com/
3D (polygon, not stereo) page

http://www.spin-studios.com/articles/
A few more game development articles and applications

-Aesthetics-

http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/
At one point I was specifically looking for creepy woodcuts. Found 'em.

http://theimaginaryworld.com/rayart.html
At one point I was specifically looking for creepy art from 50's animated commercials. Found 'em. Seriously...they give me the willies.

http://image.ox.ac.uk/
Facsimilies of old manuscripts

All the links I have of "sprite" databases that had graphics from old video games are defunct, although there are still a few around...

Whew...I've got more, but I need to get to my semester proposals. Those'll be up in a short while...