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A listing of various image and texture resource sites in alphabetical order.
*[http://www.textureworld.com/ 3D Texture Libraries and Backgrounds from TextureW…'

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A listing of various image and texture resource sites in alphabetical order.
*[http://www.textureworld.com/ 3D Texture Libraries and Backgrounds from TextureWorld]
:Thousands of professional, high-quality, photorealisitc seamless textures for game developers and architects and more.

*[http://www.3dcafe.com/ 3DCafe]
:Free and pay-for resources for 3D artists

*[http://www.3drender.com/ 3dRender.com]
:Online Magazine with 3D Articles and tutorials

*[http://www.grsites.com/textures/ Absolute Background Textures Archive]
:2800+ Free Tiling Background Textures

*[http://www.absolutecross.com/ Absolute Cross]
:The One-Stop Spot for Free Online Graphics, Tips, Tools & Resources. Seemless tilable textures available from the Downloads link.

*[http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form Area Map Search Form]
:USGS Mapping Information

*[http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Astronomical Data Center]
:Catalog of Star charts and all things star related

*[http://fineart.sk/ Body References for 3D artists]
:Human Anatomy Pictures for Artists.

*[http://www.castlesontheweb.com/ Castle Image Archive]
:Everything castle related, including images of castles.

*[http://www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html Charles Poynton - Color technology]
:Answers to "Frequently Asked Questions" about Gamma and Color in video, computer graphics, and print.

*[http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/tilings/TilingSoftware.html Computer Software for Tiling Images]
:Site contains a list of several software programs specifically for tiling images.

*[http://www.ozones.com/backgrounds/ Doc Browns Background images/textures]
:Tiled textures

*[http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html Download Planet Earth]
:Site contains links to DEM (digital elevation maps) of the entire globe in various resolutions.

*[http://www.boogaholler.com/freeweb/freeweb.html Free Art Textures]
:Small collection but good

*[http://www.ecn.net.au/~iain/htextures/intro.html Iain's Textures]
:A series of tiled images

*[http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/fleming/imagemaps.htm Image_maps]
:From:3D Photorealism Toolkit - Images designed to tile.

*[http://www.imageafter.com/ Imageafter ** Free Images and Textures Database]
:Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

*[ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/images/ Images FTP Free]
:Many catagories including Raytracing

*[http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov/maps/ Maps of the Solar Sysuem]
:Welcome to the solar system surface map database, a NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass on the cosmos. Select your planetary system of choice and download maps, or browse the surface features of your favorite planet or satellite!

*[http://www.marlinstudios.com/ Marlin Studios]
:Professional CDs$of seamless textures and lots of free samples.

*[http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/h-mich.htm Michelangelo]
:Italian sculpters links

*[http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/top.html Nebulae Page]
:Offers pictures of Nebula for background applications

*[http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/dreid/658/index.html NTMY's Digital Home]
:Some images, made with Povray 3.0. Mostly Starships and things of that kind . A small number of textures can be downloaded.

*[http://thor.prohosting.com/~phillean/wood/wood.htm Phillean Wood Textures]
:A great collection of wood texture maps.

*[http://www.photovault.com/ Photovault Stock Photos]
:Images of Pollen, Plant Pics, Photos, and Flowers. This is a very comprehensive photo data base and well worth the time exploring.

*[http://www.evildrganymede.net/art/maps.htm Planetary Maps & POV-Ray Models]
:Evil Dr Ganymede's planetary maps site where you can download maps of other planets for use in 3D raytracing software such as POVRay, Lightwave, and 3DStudio. There's also a dowloadable model of the voyager space craft and other POV-Ray stuff.

*[http://www.art.net/~jeremy/photo/public_texture_frameset.html Public Textures]
:Photographic images that may be used as 3D textures in your scenes. All high resolution. 350+ images.

*[http://www.ofoto.com/ Put your 3D images on photographic prints]
:This site is geared towards 'developing' digital images or photos. But what can be done is to submit your 3D rendered scene as a JPEG file and they will print it on photographic quality 4x6 prints. If you sign up soon, the first 100 4X6 prints are free.

*[http://www.renfield-imaging.50megs.com/ Renfield Imaging]
:A growing gallery of the Web's most intriguing seamless textures. All images free for download. New images monthly.

*[http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/ Rob's Granite Page]
:Some images of rock

*[http://www.gam-robert.com/links.htm Stone texture library]
:Tiles and stone vendor with an incredible library of textures (marble, granite etc.)

*[http://www.terrametrics.com/ TerraMetrics]
:Commercial Images for Topo maps/HF's Samples only

*[http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/textures/aindex.html Texture Land]
:Abnormal Textures

*[http://sunhe.jinr.dubna.su/textbin/normal/textures.pl Texture Land !]
:Normal Textures

*[http://texlib.povray.org/ Texture Library]
:POV-Ray v3.0-Textures

*[http://www.mortalspaces.com/illuminations/textureproject/ Texture Project]
:Here is a site of free lo-res and high-res manmade and natural textures.

*[http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/abbey/78/texindex.html Texture Shoppe]
:About a dozen textures

*[http://www.nepthys.com/textures/ Texture Station]
:Tiling backgrounds, textures, desktop wallpaper

*[http://www.planethalflife.com/studio/ Texture Studio]
:Free textures. Just give credit. 19.1 Mb zipped. Bmp mostly and some jpg + tutorial to make textures with photoshop. All high quality textures with some very interesting patterns.

*[ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/sci/virtual-reality/graphics/texture/ Textures]
:University collection - Many stones and brick textures

*[http://www.elektrobar.com/lux/textures.html Textures]
:Texture, Maps, Materials, Bumps (skin)

*[http://www.dreamsandmagic.com/textures.htm Textures]
:General Collection - some good

*[http://www.afterlife.de/ Textures]
:Human and Monster textures

*[http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/ Textures Archive]
:A large collection of Textures catagorized for easy selection.

*[ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/images/textures/ Textures FTP]
:Free - These are poorly identified but sampling showed nice surprises

*[http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/ The Graphics File Format Page]
:These pages contain specifications for various graphics file formats; along with a number of relevant graphics utilities, information, and URLs.

*[http://www.irtc.org/ The Internet Ray Tracing Competition]
:The Internet Ray Tracing Competition is an open competition. Deadline for still image submission is every two months, for animations, every three months. Participants may use any 3D rendering program they choose. If you want to see the best there is in 3D rendering and raytracing this is the place to go.

*[http://www.digitalcraftsman.com/ Travis Price Digital Craftsman]
:342 free photographic textures.

*[http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/dem.html USGS us .DEM maps]
:Dem maps scaled at 1:1,000,000
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 :<p>Tiled textures</p>
-*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071020020017/http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html Download Planet Earth]
+*[http://www.reocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html Download Planet Earth]
 :<p>Site contains links to DEM (digital elevation maps) of the entire globe in various resolutions.</p>

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 <p class="Hint">A listing of various image and texture resource sites in alphabetical order.</p>
-*[http://www.textureworld.com/ 3D Texture Libraries and Backgrounds from TextureWorld]
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080702135359/www.textureworld.com/Texture_Libraries/Store/ 3D Texture Libraries and Backgrounds from TextureWorld]
 :<p>Thousands of professional, high-quality, photorealisitc seamless textures for game developers and architects and more.</p>
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 :<p>The One-Stop Spot for Free Online Graphics, Tips, Tools & Resources. Seemless tilable textures available from the Downloads link.</p>
-*[http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form Area Map Search Form]
+*[http://geonames.usgs.gov/ Area Map Search Form]
 :<p>USGS Mapping Information</p>
-*[http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Astronomical Data Center]
+*[http://www.astro.umd.edu/ Astronomical Data Center]
 :<p>Catalog of Star charts and all things star related</p>
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 :<p>Tiled textures</p>
-*[http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html Download Planet Earth]
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071020020017/http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html Download Planet Earth]
 :<p>Site contains links to DEM (digital elevation maps) of the entire globe in various resolutions.</p>
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 :<p>Small collection but good</p>
-*[http://www.ecn.net.au/~iain/htextures/intro.html Iain's Textures]
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080504160112/http://www.ecn.net.au/~iain/htextures/intro.html Iain's Textures]
 :<p>A series of tiled images</p>
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 :<p>Italian sculpters links</p>
-*[http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/top.html Nebulae Page]
+*[http://astro.nineplanets.org/twn/ Nebulae Page]
 :<p>Offers pictures of Nebula for background applications</p>
 *[http://thor.prohosting.com/~phillean/wood/wood.htm Phillean Wood Textures]
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 :<p>Evil Dr Ganymede's planetary maps site where you can download maps of other planets for use in 3D raytracing software such as POVRay, Lightwave, and 3DStudio. There's also a dowloadable model of the voyager space craft and other POV-Ray stuff.</p>
-*[http://www.art.net/~jeremy/photo/public_texture_frameset.html Public Textures]
+*[http://www.photographyblog.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=1065 Public Textures]
 :<p>Photographic images that may be used as 3D textures in your scenes. All high resolution. 350+ images.</p>
-*[http://www.ofoto.com/ Put your 3D images on photographic prints]
+*[http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/welcome.jsp Put your 3D images on photographic prints]
-:<p>This site is geared towards 'developing' digital images or photos.  But what can be done is to submit your 3D rendered scene as a JPEG file and they will print it on photographic quality 4x6 prints.  If you sign up soon, the first 100 4X6 prints are free.</p>
+:<p>Submit your 3D rendered scene as a JPEG file and they will print it on photographic quality 4x6 prints.</p>
 *[http://www.renfield-imaging.50megs.com/ Renfield Imaging]
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 :<p>Abnormal Textures</p>
-*[http://sunhe.jinr.dubna.su/textbin/normal/textures.pl Texture Land !]
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20060823000947/http://sunhe.jinr.dubna.su/textbin/normal/textures.pl Texture Land !]
 :<p>Normal Textures</p>
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 :<p>Here is a site of free lo-res and high-res manmade and natural textures.</p>
-*[http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/abbey/78/texindex.html Texture Shoppe]
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20060403010210/http://fortunecity.com/victorian/abbey/78/texindex.html Texture Shoppe]
-:<p>About a dozen textures</p>
+:<p>About a dozen textures, requires [http://www.programmersheaven.com/download/2006/download.aspx Texture Magic]</p>
 *[http://www.nepthys.com/textures/ Texture Station]
 :<p>Tiling backgrounds, textures, desktop wallpaper</p>
 *[ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/sci/virtual-reality/graphics/texture/ Textures]
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 :<p>Texture, Maps, Materials, Bumps (skin)</p>
-*[http://www.dreamsandmagic.com/textures.htm Textures]
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20030622175051/dreamsandmagic.com/cd2.htm Textures]
-:<p>General Collection - some good</p>
+:<p>Meshcraft Treasure Chest CD - some free samples</p>
 *[http://www.afterlife.de/ Textures]
 :<p>Human and Monster textures</p>
-*[http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/ Textures Archive]
+*[http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture_colour/ Textures Archive]
 :<p>A large collection of Textures catagorized for easy selection.</p>
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 :<p>342 free photographic textures.</p>
-*[http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/dem.html USGS us .DEM maps]
+*[http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/DEMs USGS us .DEM maps]
 :<p>Dem maps scaled at  1:1,000,000</p>
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