Open Source 3D Modeling Software

Development of low cost computer controlled manufacturing equipment and software for use in schools.

Libsmog is a flexible 3D game engine written in C++. It has been designed from the ground up to provide a dynamic, performance oriented, flexible, multi-player, easy to implement audio and visual experience.

Quan is designed to model physical quantities in C++ programs. Advantages include automated dimensional analysis checking, automatic unit conversions, self documentation of code.

A robotic DIY styrofoam cutter consisting of one rotational and two translational axes. It cuts a variety of shapes out of styrofoam-like materials using a hot wire. This project documents the necessary hardware and software parts. Don't miss the follow-up project at http://raumschaum.org Its goal is to further develop hardware and software into an user friendly application.

Command line application that enables you to create wide range of domes, vaults, tubes or egg-like shapes from triangular desks. The arch is always in the shape of catenary that makes it possible to design and build extremely tough models or buildings suitable for underground/underwater architecture. The program has two outputs. The first is OBJ file you can import to 3D modelling software, such as Autocad or Blender. The second output is CSV file you can open in OOCalc or Excel and use as plans for actual construction. The application is written in Tcl and released under WTFPL.

PEDSIM is a microscopic pedestrian crowd simulation system. The PEDSIM library allows you to use pedestrian dynamics in your own software. Based on pure C++ without additional packages, it runs virtually on every operating system. The PEDSIM Demo Application gives you a quick overview of the capabilities, and is a starting point for your own experiments. PEDSIM is suitable for use in crowd simulations (e.g. indoor evacuation simulation, large scale outdoor simulations), where one is interested in output like pedestrian density or evacuation time. Also, the quality of the individual agent's trajectory is high enough for creating massive pedestrian crowds in movies. Since libpedsim is easy to use and extend, it is a good starting point for science projects.