3D Texture Libraries and Backgrounds from TextureWorld![](/i/blue3.gif)
Thousands of professional, high-quality, photorealisitc seamless textures for game developers and architects and more.
3DCafe![](/i/blue2.gif)
Free and pay-for resources for 3D artists
3dRender.com![](/i/blue2.gif)
Online Magazine with 3D Articles and tutorials
Absolute Background Textures Archive![](/i/blue2.gif)
2800+ Free Tiling Background Textures
Absolute Cross![](/i/blue1.gif)
The One-Stop Spot for Free Online Graphics, Tips, Tools & Resources. Seemless tilable textures available from the Downloads link.
Area Map Search Form![](/i/blue1.gif)
USGS Mapping Information
Astronomical Data Center![](/i/blue1.gif)
Catalog of Star charts and all things star related
Body References for 3D artists![](/i/blue1.gif)
Human Anatomy Pictures for Artists.
Castle Image Archive![](/i/blue1.gif)
Everything castle related, including images of castles.
Charles Poynton - Color technology![](/i/blue1.gif)
Answers to "Frequently Asked Questions" about Gamma and Color in video, computer graphics, and print.
Computer Software for Tiling Images![](/i/blue2.gif)
Site contains a list of several software programs specifically for tiling images.
Doc Browns Background images/textures![](/i/blue2.gif)
Tiled textures
Download Planet Earth![](/i/blue1.gif)
Site contains links to DEM (digital elevation maps) of the entire globe in various resolutions.
Free Art Textures![](/i/blue1.gif)
Small collection but good
Iain's Textures![](/i/blue3.gif)
A series of tiled images
Imageafter ** Free Images and Textures Database![](/i/blue1.gif)
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.
Images FTP Free![](/i/blue1.gif)
Many catagories including Raytracing
Image_maps![](/i/blue1.gif)
From:3D Photorealism Toolkit - Images designed to tile.
Maps of the Solar Sysuem![](/i/blue1.gif)
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!
Marlin Studios![](/i/blue1.gif)
Professional CDs$of seamless textures and lots of free samples.
Michelangelo![](/i/blue1.gif)
Italian sculpters links
Nebulae Page![](/i/blue1.gif)
Offers pictures of Nebula for background applications
NTMY's Digital Home![](/i/blue1.gif)
Some images, made with Povray 3.0. Mostly Starships and things of that kind . A small number of textures can be downloaded.
Phillean Wood Textures![](/i/blue1.gif)
A great collection of wood texture maps.
Photovault Stock Photos![](/i/blue1.gif)
Images of Pollen, Plant Pics, Photos, and Flowers. This is a very comprehensive photo data base and well worth the time exploring.
Planetary Maps & POV-Ray Models![](/i/blue1.gif)
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.
Public Textures![](/i/blue1.gif)
Photographic images that may be used as 3D textures in your scenes. All high resolution. 350+ images.
Put your 3D images on photographic prints![](/i/blue1.gif)
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.
Renfield Imaging![](/i/blue3.gif)
A growing gallery of the Web's most intriguing seamless textures. All images free for download. New images monthly.
Rob's Granite Page![](/i/blue1.gif)
Some images of rock
Stone texture library![](/i/blue1.gif)
Tiles and stone vendor with an incredible library of textures (marble, granite etc.)
TerraMetrics![](/i/blue1.gif)
Commercial Images for Topo maps/HF's Samples only
Texture Land![](/i/blue3.gif)
Abnormal Textures
Texture Land !![](/i/blue1.gif)
Normal Textures
Texture Library![](/i/blue1.gif)
POV-Ray v3.0-Textures
Texture Project![](/i/blue1.gif)
Here is a site of free lo-res and high-res manmade and natural textures.
Texture Shoppe![](/i/blue1.gif)
About a dozen textures
Texture Station![](/i/blue1.gif)
Tiling backgrounds, textures, desktop wallpaper
Texture Studio![](/i/blue1.gif)
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.
Textures![](/i/blue4.gif)
Human and Monster textures
Textures![](/i/blue1.gif)
General Collection - some good
Textures![](/i/blue1.gif)
Texture, Maps, Materials, Bumps (skin)
Textures![](/i/blue1.gif)
University collection - Many stones and brick textures
Textures Archive![](/i/blue5.gif)
A large collection of Textures catagorized for easy selection.
Textures FTP![](/i/blue1.gif)
Free - These are poorly identified but sampling showed nice surprises
The Graphics File Format Page![](/i/blue1.gif)
These pages contain specifications for various graphics file formats; along with a number of relevant graphics utilities, information, and URLs.
The Internet Ray Tracing Competition![](/i/blue1.gif)
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.
Travis Price Digital Craftsman![](/i/blue1.gif)
342 free photographic textures.
USGS us .DEM maps![](/i/blue1.gif)
Dem maps scaled at 1:1,000,000
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