Open Source Desktop Operating Systems 3D Rendering Software - Page 3

An extensible framework for distributed computing on P2P grids. We support peaceful free and open research and build an internet supercomputer. We render movies, solve Eternity puzzles, predict climate and improve a ~30 GHz cluster of clients.

This little tool reads various GO-formats (starting with SGF-parser) and will write a POV (Persistance of Vision) - file. The file can be rendered using POV, so the resulting image will be a high-res raytraced go-board.

GSL is aimed at providing a tool for rapid graphical programming. GSL is an object-oriented script language with graphical support. Its goal is to provide an easy way to specify worlds and at the same time enable the coding of behaviours of those worlds.

A high performance visualization tool for stars and particles able to run on Beowulfs. Rendering step is implemented separately and optimized for SSE, compatible with OpenGL. Navigation mechanism with quaternions. Ten color maps, sobel contour detect

Imagin Raytracer is a portable and multithreaded raytracer designed to run on all Posix systems. With its many features and its ease of use, it makes it possible to create quickly realistic images and animations.

Ivf++ is a small class library encapsulating OpenGL functionality. It comes with ~10 tutorials and a user's guide. See homepage for latest news and updates.

JellyMark is a next-generation OpenGL and CPU benchmarking program. Features: Realtime Physics simulation of non rigid body bouncing in a rotating cube. 100% Assembly optimized FPU spring calculation routine. Cube environment mapping for reflections.

A tool for visualizing regular polytopes in stereographic projection. Capabilities include: a large database of Coxeter polytopes, 6-axis motion control, animation, fly-though, stereo viewing, high-res capture, depth-blur, and many style options.

LittleFarm renders RenderMan .rib-Files over the network with some widely used renderers. It runs on irix, linux and win32.

Magneticle is a 3D OpenGL physical simulation that applies the Biot-Savart law to charged particles operating inside a magnetic field produced by a current-carrying wire modeled as an arbitrary space curve.

Take a 2D flat photo... and turn it into a w3D "wiggle stereogram"! INSTANTLY! Wiggle stereograms use animation to switch between the left and right view of a stereogram. Here we create a nice animation that slides back and forth, for a smooth wiggle 3D ("w3D") effect. First the image is broken down into planes. Each plane is given a depth distance. The image belonging to each plane is horizontally compressed enough that the "shadows" cast by the image belonging to the planes in front of it cover the "holes" in the plane. The whole thing is then animated in a gentle see-saw fashion to get the wiggle effect. Wiggle Stereography was invented by Jim Gasperini, who made them by hand.

This Minimal OpenGL Utility Library is a library similar to GLUT, only with fewer features! You can write window-system-independent OpenGL programs with even fewer lines of code than GLUT. Initial support for X11 and Win32. Examples.

software rendering generic 3D engine

Open Source Remote Sensing OSSIM project, pronounced "awesome", will leverage existing algorithms/tools/packages from the open source community in construction of the ultimate Remote Sensing/Image Processing/GIS package. osgPlanet extends OSSIM and Op

The Open Descent Foundation (ODF) is a community for developers, who want to help to create open source programs, tools, etc. for the famous games Descent1, -2 or -3. Everyone can join the ODF if he accepts the idea of writing open source programs.

PHIGS is an API standard for rendering 3D computer graphics. During the 1990's OpenGL became a more popular 3D API for professionals, and it still is today. PHIGS remains to be widely used in the film industry. Open PHIGS uses OpenGL for rendering graphics rather than implementing it's own abstraction layer to the graphics hardware, or using the PHIGS Extension to X (PEX). The reason for doing so is that today every graphics card manufacturer provides their own OpenGL implementation, which takes full advantage of the accelerated drawing capabilities in the hardware. PHIGS is a higher level API than OpenGL that works with a hierarchical scene graph. Models are built up in a Centralized Structure Store (CSS), a database containing the drawing primitives and their attributes (color, line style, etc.). CSSes cand be shared among a number of views, known under PHIGS as a workstation. PHIGS is defined by the ISO standards ISO/IEC 9592 & 9593. Open PHIGS provides a library for C.

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.

The OpenGL Class Library (GLCL) is intented to be a set of C++ classes, available through static and dynamic libraries, that will allow the developer to create OpenGL applications using C++ quickly.

High quality volume graphics on consumer PC hardware. This GPL project is a graphics application for the visualization of 3D volume data on uniform rectilinear grid, as they arise from tomographic measurement or numerical simulation in computational scie

Small OpenGL game based on the Cube FPS game & engine. Available for Windows.

Piranha is an open source OpenGL demoscene.

PyOSG is a python wrapper for the OpenSceneGraph. Version number corresponds to the version of OpenSceneGraph that PyOSG should work with (e.g. PyOSG 2.8 should work with OpenSceneGraph 2.8.x). Still in early stages, so email mday299 if any problems!

A plugin-based raytracer for educational and other use, supporting XML-format scenefiles, POVray and Polyray scenefiles. Other facilities it will offer include Lindermayer Systems, AVI/OGM (Ogg Vorbis)/Matroska animations and a Perl/PHP web interface

R.I.S.E. is a state of the art engine and framework for the simulation and realistic image synthesis of natural phenomenon based on physics, biology and chemistry.