Dan's Favorite Art Links: Graphics Utilities: Modelers, Scene Builders, and Renderers

Here are links to various 3D modeling programs, scene builders, rendering systems, and graphics utilities. Most of these are freeware or shareware.

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3D Graphics Gems: Reviews and examples of some of the more popular 3D utilities.
3D Tools: 3-D Wireframe and 3-D Anaglyph Software

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AC3D - 3D Graphics Modeler - HOME PAGE: AC3D is an inexpensive 3D object/scene modeler currently available for Windows 95/NT, SGI's, Suns and Linux. It is easy to use and powerful. I tried the demo version and found it to be a little bit buggy under Windows 95, but your results may vary.
Andrew's Computer Animation Page
AutoFly.inc: Automates flying objects in POV-Ray v3.1+

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Behemot Graphics Editor
Bergysoff: Bergy's Color Maker program and a POV-Ray include file for making coils
Blue Moon Rendering Tools Home Page
The Bolt3D Page: Bolt3D is a real-time 3D engine for the Win32 platform. It can do real-time gouraud, phong, texture-mapping and particle systems.
Brassman's Graphics Page: This site has a little of everything, but seems to be mainly graphics utilities and POV-Ray include files.
Breeze Designer: Breeze Designer is a 32-bit 3D modelling and design tool for Windows NT and Windows 95. The program has been written to primarily interface with the Persistance of Vision raytracer (POV-Ray version 2.0 & 3.0), there is also support to export to a number of other popular renderers including Pixars's RenderMan® and VRML viewers.

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The Converter's Paradise: Lots of utilities for converting from one file format to another.
Crossroads 3D: Crossroads 3D is a new Windows freeware application that can translate between several 3D file formats.

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Dave G's Animation System Homepage: This is the home of Dave G's Animation System (DGAS) for the Persistence of Vision Raytracer. DGAS is designed to add advanced animation features to your pov scenes, regardless of which platform you run POV-Ray on.
Digi-Art Home: 3D modeler for POV-Ray.
Dom's home -- The Site MAP: These pages are concerned with 3D modeling and the creation of 3D objects to be used to produce computer images.

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FLUX's Home: Home of the Raychase-II raytracer
freeware mpeg encoders

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Gautam N. Lad's Website: Ray tracing information and tools, art gallery, and lots of links to programming and graphics sites.

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jawRay: An experimental multiplatform raytracer written in C++
Joerg Schrammel's Home: This site features the Genesis Toolkit, a set of tools to create detailed color maps and to place POV-Ray objects onto a heightfield.
John Beale's Home Page: This is mostly raytraced images and some utilities for generating landscapes using height fields.

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Keith Rule's 3D home page: Information about the various 3D graphics file formats as well as utilities for converting from one to another.

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Leo 3D: Leo 3D is a real time 3D modelling application which enables you to create realistic 3D scenes using different rendering applications (such as Povray or BMRT for example). It also exports VRML files.

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Mallozzi's Software: A collection of graphics and ray tracing software
MetaCreations Corporation
Moonlight Creator Home: Moonlight Creator is a highly portable environment dedicated to virtual creation. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It currently supports 3D creation: modelling, illuminating and rendering 3D objects and scenes.
The Moray Homepage: Moray is a 3D modeler that runs under MS-DOS. They will be releasing a Windows version soon.
MPEG ...: MPEG encoders and compressors.
My own fractal-page: Download the Quaternion Generator, a tool for creating fractal images.

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NewHoo - Computers:Software

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The Official Leveller Home Page
Official POV-Ray Mac OS Info Page
The Officially Unofficial POV-Ray 3.0 Utility Warehouse: A site containing mainly include file utilities for the POV-Ray 3.0 raytracer.
Okino Computer Graphics
Organic Life on Your Desktop

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Page of Thomas Baier
The Pile: Lots of include files for POV-Ray
POV-RAY: This sight has lots of great ray traced 3D computer art. You can even download some excellent freeware software for creating your own pictures.
Pov-Ray - Spanish
POV-Ray 3 -- isosurface patch: POV3ISO: This sight offers a free patch to POV-Ray that allows you to invoke some special effects.
POV-Ray Utilities
POVLAB: A 3D graphic modeler for POV-Ray
POVLAB's Modeller Home Page: POVLAB is a full 3D graphic modeller,which models 3D objects for the photo-realistic © povteam Persistence Of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
The POVRay Include Files Page
PoVSB Home Page: PoVSB is a Windows 95/NT based modeler for the Persistence of Vision Raytracer. The goal of PoVSB is to allow users of PoV to quickly and easily design scenes in the Windows environment with true camera preview of the scene so no guess work is involved. PoVSB is continually being enhanced and new features added.
PVMPOV: PVMPOV you can render your POV-Ray images distributed to multiple machines of different type.

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Rayshade Homepage: Rayshade is an extensible system for creating ray-traced images. It is written in C, yacc, and lex, and runs on many different platforms.
RayTraced Evolution: A programable scenes-generator for Raytracers/Renderers
Rhino: NURBS modeling for Windows
Richard A. King Graphics: Graphic Design Programs & Images
Robert's FREEWARE only ! Page

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Shawn Fumo's POV-Ray Utilities List
ShellyLib Home Page: The Shell Laboratory is a utility for creating sea shells. You can manipulate basic sea shell shapes as well as create new ones.
Silicon Dream Ltd - Genesis 3D editor
SmokeGen.inc: A smoke generator for POV-Ray v3.1+
sPatch Home Page: sPatch is a 3D modeler that runs under Windows.
SpilinEditor: SpilinEditor is a graphical curve editor mainly designed for use with POV-Ray 3.0x.
Steve Wallace's POV Utility Review
Steve's Object Builder: Steve's Object Builder is a script based tool that can be used to make 3D objects for raytracing programs such as POV-Ray. The last time I checked, this was freeware.

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Targa averager
TeraLogic Texture Maker
Terrain Maker Home Page
TOG: Software Related Tools and Resources: "There is a wide variety of computer graphics related software packages available on the net. The resources we list here are ones we consider particularly useful to researchers."
TreeDesigner: Tree and plant modeler for Moray and POV-Ray