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- 3D Parametric Modeller - A modeller used to create 3D graphics for the web or content for presentations, that is capable of telling a story or relating a scientific concept in 3D. By Stransim Software.
www.stransim.com/model.htm
- 3dom - A 3D solid object modeler designed to be independent of the rendered back-end. Features include constructive solid modeling, reality-based material representation, and a flexible plugin system, scripting through Python bindings and a constraint-solving engine.
threedom.sourceforge.net/
- 3DStyler - Free 3D modeling and rendering software. This release should be treated as beta version (contains some bugs and does not contain help).
xorsol.pl/3dstyler
- AC3D 3d Modeler - The modeler allows both novice users and experts to construct models in 3d quickly and easily on Windows and Linux. The powerful but intuitive interface makes usage much easier than other 3d software. Generates: VRML, POVRay, BMRT and many other formats.
www.ac3d.org
- Adept Development - Kribi 3D Engine the pure software Kribi Renderer.
www.adeptdevelopment.com/default.htm
- Adobe Dimensions 3.0 - Powerful 3D rendering tool for production-quality 3D artwork, offering the unique ability to create both vector and raster graphics. Wrap both vector art and raster images around any 3D shape and combine simple objects to create complex shapes. [Macintosh/Windows]
www.adobe.com/products/dimensions/main.html
- Amethyst ShadowFX - A sun and shadow modeling program for architects and town planners. Shadow profiles can be quickly and easily generated without the need to input complex 3D objects.
www.shadowfx.co.uk/shadowfx.htm
- Anim8or - A free 3D modeling and character animation program. Features include Create and modify 3D models with built-in primitives such as spheres, cylinders, and platonic solids. Import and modify .3DS (3D Studio), .LWO (Lightwave), and .OBJ (Wavefront) object files. Texture support for .BMP, .GIF, and .JPG format files. [Win NT4/9X/Win2K]
www.anim8or.com
- Art of Illusion - Free open source 3D modeling and rendering studio.
drizzle.stanford.edu/~peastman/aoi.html
- Behemot Graphics Editor - Model and render 3D objects and scenes. It runs on Windows95/NT, Linux and Mac. It can create and modify graphically b-rep, blob, NURBS models; object can be logically intersected or subtracted.
www.behemot.com
- Blueberry3D - An advanced Windows program that allows the designing and creation of virtual landscapes or automatically generates it from real map data. Program uses mathematical fractals to extend the data and create smaller details automatically.
www.blueberry3d.com
- CALIMAX Modeller - A 32-bit 3D modeling tool for Win NT and Win 95. The program has been written to primarily interface with the Persistance of Vision raytracer (POV-Ray version 2.x & 3.x).
www.calimax.de
- Caviar - Tutorials for Rhino3d covering general setup, the RIB-file, parameterization and texture maps, applying shaders to objects, smoother NURBS, texture control, and a gallery. Also BMRT benchmark and a few shaders.
home5.swipnet.se/~w-52046
- Connecticut Advanced Products, Inc. - DC Render a unique hybrid rendering software solution to generate photorealistic images. The Graphics-Library enables online rendering even with Phong-Rendering and shadow casting without the need for expensive graphics hardware.
www.capcad.com/dcrender/dcrender.htm
- CyberMotion 3D-Designer - A professional 3D-modeling plus raytracing and animation system. Features include a multi-window graphical user interface, 3D modeling and objects, materials assignments, preview functions, animation, particle systems, and raytracing.
www.3d-designer.com
- DMesh - A Windows 95 mesh creation and deformation tool for use with 3D modeling, rendering and animation software. Primary focus is the generation of smooth-surface mesh objects for use in humanoid and other organic modeling tasks. Uses a proprietary Musculature Definition Language.
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/4500/dmmain.htm
- Draw3D - Free 3D designing and modelling program for Windows 95/98/2000. Supports 3DS, spreadsheet and Draw3D compressed files, including a file previewer. Can extrude/sweep new objects, with B-spline curves. Old version includes full Visual Basic plus Assembly source code.
members.optusnet.com.au/~gorbash/Draw3D/Draw3D.html
- Easymodel - 3D modeler to create 3D scenes and export them to 3DS, DXF, VRML1, and VRML2 file formats, as well as import objects. Features a toolbox, and the ability to display the front, side, top, and survey views.
www.jthesing.com/easymodel/easymain.htm
- EditPoly - 3d polygon and polyline editor.
www.mygnus.com
- Escultor 2.0 - A free low polygon 3D editor with an independent texture management.
www.geocities.com/miguel_pineda
- Extreme Wave 3D - An ambitious project to create a feature rich, extensible 3D modeling environment. Currently emphasizes povray export for scene rendering, but support for other formats are planned. Program will eventually include a native ray tracer as well.
www.tiger-marmalade.com/~james/ewave
- Form-Z RenderZone RadioZity - A 3D rendering application to generate photo-realistic models and 3D images, based on the LightWorks rendering engine. Seven levels of rendering: flat, Gouraud, Phong, preview z-buffer, full z-buffer, preview ray-trace, and full ray-trace.
www.formz.com
- FreeForm Modeling System - SensAble's modeling system allows designers to model on the computer with their sense of touch. The system provides an physical, analog interface to create a valuable, digital asset.
www.sensable.com/freeform
- Game Studio - Repix Inc. - A modeling application to design wireframe, polygonal, and hybrid objects with special attributes, test, and save 3D models for real-time rendering.
www.repix.com
- Geometry Utility Library - GUL - Geometry Utility Library for construction, evaluation, manipulation and visualization of geometric objects, especially for parametric and implicit defined surfaces.
gul.sourceforge.net
- Gscape Real-time Procedural World Editor - A developing program for creating 3d terrain and environments and rendering them in real-time using procedural methods.
www.gscape.com
- gSculpt - An Opensource 3D modeling application based on Cybersculpt a 3D modeling application for the Atari ST range of computers. Creates models using translational and rotational sweeps of polylines.
gsculpt.sourceforge.net
- hamaPatch - Spline-based 3D modeling program for Windows 95, featuring shaded previews, export to many popular 3D formats, and the ability to perform test renders in POV-Ray or BMRT.
www.geocities.com/hamapatch/program
- Imageware - ModelMagic3D, an easy to use, interactive, 3D modeling package used to create OpenGL scenes rendered in real-time.
www.imagewaredev.com
- J-Cad - A polygon editing and modeler for Java. Includes file exporting (including AutoCAD DXF), mathematical modeler, export between formats including AutoCAD DXF, tool-box includes polygon reduction, surface relaxing, animation features included with JCad Pro. It functions as a standalone program or as a utility to integrate with other favorite 3D applications. Works under: Iris Silicon Graphics, Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, Solaris and Windows 98/NT/2000/XP.
www.digitalscores.com/jcsoftware
- Jarfish Design - ClayScape3D is a 3D-modeling program that allows the user to interactively sculpt virtual clay in real time. Is geared toward Macintosh 3D graphics enthusiasts requires Apple's OpenGL extensions.
www.jarfish.com
- Lemon Pro Maya Network Rendering Tools - The Lemon Pro Server application handles distributed network rendering of your (SGI and NT/2000) Maya projects on NT/2000 Render-Farms and Workstations. Free download of demo version.
martin.ice.org/lemon_pro.html
- Lightray3D - Modeling, animating and rendering tool for Windows 9x/ME. Downloads, contact information, gallery, screenshots, tutorial, and FAQs.
www.geocities.com/sxcreations/lightray3d.htm
- MARS - Modelling Animation and Rendering System for creating and animating 3D objects. It can transparently support any raytracer, and render on remote systems.
members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html
- Mental Ray Renderer - Leading raytracing rendering engine.
www.mental.com
- Micrografx Simply 3D - 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tool, includes 1,000 3D drag-and-drop objects, 800 quality textures, 50 lighting setups, 100 animations, and 80 deformations, as well as a 2D-to-3D wizard, morphing capabilities, and an output wizard.
www.micrografx.com/mgxproducts/simply3d.asp
- Micropcomputer Topography - 3DEM produce three dimensional terrain scenes, flyby animations and VRML worlds from freely available USGS DEM files. Senes can be saved in many formats. (Win95/98/NT)
visualizationsoftware.com/3dem
- Modular Ground for Active World - It converts real world mapping data into a set of rwx objects that can be placed in a world with a building bot or through propload. Textures can be added to these objects to create realistic terrain models.
andras.net/modular.html
- MS MacroSystem Software - Fast scientific 3D-visualization software optimized for Win real time render of regular meshes and scattered data. OpenGL based 3D Viewer for surface topography, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM, SPM), dimensional metrology.
www.msmacrosystem.nl/3Dsurf/About3Dview.html
- O'Toole Landscape Maker 2.1 - Landscape Maker is a utility program that will generate a complex three-dimensional surface from a Windows bitmap. The output is generated in the TrueSpace object (.cob) file format.
www.iwaynet.net/~kotoole
- Partica - Programmable real-time 3D graphics engine and 3D modeler for Windows programs. Also features a gallery, documents, reference manuals, and free download.
www.dexterity.com.hk/Products/Partica/home.htm
- PhotoModeler - Windows software package for measuring and modeling real-world objects and scenes through the use of photographs. Create 3D models from photos complete with points, lines, surfaces, and photo textures mapped on right from photos.
www.photomodeler.com
- PICARIO B.V. - The FACE software provides an environment to present products in all varieties quickly in a realistic life-like setting.
www.picario.com
- PlantStudio - Tool for creating pictures of 3D plants. It simulates herbaceous (non-woody) plants like wildflowers and cut flowers, vegetables, weeds, grasses, and herbs using a parameter-driven simulation of plant growth and structure.
www.kurtz-fernhout.com/PlantStudio/index.htm
- PolyTrans - Okino Computer Graphics, Inc. - A powerful and accurate 3d model, scene, NURBS, animation translator. Complete scene conversion in a single integrated software package. Creates "Render Ready" models. Extensive conversion options to choose from.
www.okino.com/conv/conv.htm
- Polywog - A free, simple 3D-modeling program creates and edits 3D polygonal objects. Versions available for Win95/NT or Amiga.
www.washedashore.com/projects/wog/polywog.html
- Public PSI - Open Source graphics development non-polygonal graphics developed by Tom Barbalet and the Nervana Project, now in the public domain.
www.geocities.com/publicpsi
- Quick3D - Complete 3D file format viewing and converting solution, with the ability to freely convert between all supported 3D file format types (currently 20). OpenGL hardware support. Vertex scaling function. [Win 95/98/ME/2000/NT 4.0]
www.quick3d.org
- RayImpact Project Site - 3D rendering software project. Support internal scanline rendering (flat, gouraud and phong), Opengl rendering.
www.rayimpact.com
- Real2Virtual - A tool for generating 3D VRML models from digital-camera-images, graphical-images, or from free-hand line drawings. Complex 24-bit color texture-mapped models can be created.
www.real2virtual.co.uk/frame.htm?modspec.htm
- Renderology - Resource for 3D models, textures, gallery, and links. Tutorials for Ray Dream, Rhino, Painter 3D and Carrara. New home of Terrain Forge.
www.renderology.com/default.asp
- Rhinoceros - Nurbs Modeling For Windows - Rhino can create, edit, analyze, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids in Windows. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino also has support for polygon meshes.
www.rhino3d.com
- RhinoMan - A user interface plugin for Rhino3d for exporting to BMRT. Designed to provide a complete graphical user interface for using BMRT, never have to open DOS boxes or type in commands at a prompt.
rhinoman.renderology.com
- Sced - Constraint Based Scene Design - A modeling program that makes use of geometric constraints to edit objects in a virtual world, the scenes created can be exported to a variety of rendering programs, including POVray, Radiance, and Rayshade.
www.cs.wisc.edu/~schenney/sced/sced.html
- SGI - IRIS Performer 2.3 for Linux - A high-performance 3D rendering toolkit for developers of real-time, interactive graphics applications.
www.sgi.com/software/performer/linux.html
- Siren: A Simple-Image Renderer - A scanline renderer, supports most of the basic RenderMan features, renders simple scenes in real time for motion preview, by J. Scott Iverson. Runs under MS-DOS.
home.earthlink.net/~jiverson782/Siren.html
- SiTex Graphics - AIR is a 3D graphics renderer for Windows: it produces images of scenes exported from modeling and animation programs.
www.sitexgraphics.com
- SoftCAD 3D - 3D architectural modeler for quickly creating preliminary designs. Available in various versions, all offer 3D modeling, 3D-object libraries, ray traced rendering with textures, and OpenGL navigation. For Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000.
www.softcad.com/index.asp
- solidThinking - NURBS and polygonal modeling, Subdivision Surfaces, Construction History, full OpenGL support, the advanced modeling tools, all industry leading rendering techniques, data exchange with most popular CAD and animation programs, available on both Windows and Macintosh.
www.solidthinking.com
- Studio PON - Digital Clay is 3D modeling and visualization software for Windows. Features 20 types of auto distortion filters, 3-D paint function and the capability to export models in most 3-D file formats.
www.studio-pon.com
- StyleSkin - An advanced graphics rendering package which renders 3D interface skins from simple templates.
www.pollensoftware.com/styleskin
- Surface 3D - Freeware program for creating stereograms from Relief Maps or 3D models. Includes a drawing program, with the option of creating animations and has PlugIn support.
www.traxxdale.de
- SurRender Umbra - Commercial visibility determination library for dynamic 3D scenes. Product can be plugged into any rendering or game engine.
surrender3d.com/umbra
- Synthesized Landscapes - Information and examples of raytraced fractal landscapes using POV-Ray plus the fBm landscape generator Gforge.
beale.best.vwh.net/land
- The Official Marubori Website - Freeware 3D modeling tools supports subdivision surfaces and multiresolution editing. It runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000. Additional features include interactive UV-coord assignment, model import/export, and export for third party rendered.
www.marubori.net
- VRS The Virtual Rendering System - A computer graphics software library for constructing interactive 3D applications. Provides a large collection of 3D rendering components that facilitate implementing 3D graphics applications and experimenting with graphics algorithms. Distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
www.mamvrs.de
- World Builder - Digital Element - A high-end stand-alone 3D-landscape generator that offers support of both dual processors and network rendering and integrates with leading 3D graphics packages like 3d Studio Max, Maya and Lightwave.
www.digi-element.com
- Zolos Canadian Distributor - Form·Z is a 3D rendering software and surface 3D modeler. It can exchange over twenty different file formats including AutoCAD and Adobe Illustrator.
www.zolos.com
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