Software Map

Y.A.P.R.M. (Yet Another POV-Ray Modeller) is a powerful modeller designed to seamlessly interact with the POV-Ray ray tracing renderer.

Teddy is an OpenGL-based 3D graphics library written in C++. Its main features are simple scene graph and windowing system-enabling multiple cameras, camera windows, and scenes. It focuses on easy and flexible manipulation of models and model materials in the scene graph. It contains a number of primitive objects like sphere, box, and cone, and it can load LightWave object and scene files.

The Interreality project is a collection of Open Source, Free Software projects based on the Virtual Object System (VOS) platform. The goal is to develop a free and open platform for multi-user 3D virtual reality games, applications, and interactive, collaborative 3D virtual spaces. VOS is a powerful and generic network object framework designed to support a variety of high-performance applications. It is the basis for Ter'Angreal, a general-purpose browser application for entering and participating in 3D worlds.

Convex 3D is a convertor, extractor, and viewer for such popular 3D formats as 3DS, Wavefront OBJ, and Lightwave 3D. It is written in C++ and uses a modular design. The package includes a standalone conversion tool (console) and GUI application (Qt and OpenGL are required) for viewing and more. It is not meant to be a modeler, but it can be a powerful tool to hack into 3D files made by 3rd party modelers.

SharpConstruct is an OpenGL graphics application that supports real-time sculpting of polygon meshes. The process is similar to painting on a canvas in a traditional 2D image program, but with an added dimension. Depth is simply brushed onto the model, offering an easy way to create highly detailed meshes.

Particle animation software with GL preview and Renderman output. Create, animate, and render particle systems and simple 3D scenes. Built-in shader broswer/tweaker.

HeeksCAD is a CAD application. It can import solid models from STEP and IGES files, draw construction geometry and lines and arcs, create new primitive solids, or make solids by extruding a sketch or by making a lofted solid between sketches. Solids can be modified using blending or boolean operations. Models can be saved as IGES, STEP, and STL. The 2D geometry can be plotted with a printer or to HPGL. DXF files can be imported and exported; lines, arcs, spline, ellipses, and polylines are supported. SVG import has similar capabilities. It is possible to make Add-In modules. The HeeksCNC project provides a CAM add-in, and HeeksPython provides a Python console.

Coindesigner is a RAD (rapid application development) system for building 3D applications using openInventor. It allows to create simple 3D scenarios just using drag and drop, and requires no programming experience.

JPatch is an amazing 3D Modeling/Animation tool designed to model and animate "organic" shapes such as humans, animals, aliens, etc. It is a bezier-spline modeler and works with so-called "Coon's patches", the same patches that are used by the popular Windows freeware modellers sPatch and Hamapatch and the commercial program Animation Master (they are called Hash patches there). JPatch is written entirely in Java.