Last update: 13 April 1998
Rendering Packages
Rayshade
- Rayshade User's Guide [Australia]
- Rayshade Images Archive [Australia]
- Notes on Rayshade [Australia]
- Mirror of various Rayshade FTP sites (wuarchive) [U.S.A.]
- FTP site (Princeton) [U.S.A.]
- Standard images with and without inlined icons [U.S.A.]
- More Documentation... [U.S.A.]
- User's Guide [U.S.A.]
- The Rayshade Home Page (New Address) [U.S.A.]
POV-Ray
- POV home page utilities, pictures, tutorials (utilitaires et plugins POV) [FRANCE]
- TreeDesigner, Win32 modeller for creating trees/plants, exports to POV and Moray (POVRay, Moray) [Sweden]
- The Pov-Ray Nexus [US]
- Form (Lparser with preview) [UK]
- Distributed POVRay scripts written in Perl. (There is a script which will utilize both CPU's in a dual CPU machine, and two more scripts which work together to function like PVMPovray to make use of other machines on a network. Ne
ther of these require any changes to be made to the POVRay source.) [USA]
- Rhino 3d NURBS based modellor (Now exports to POV and UDO!) [USA]
- POV-Ray Tips, Tricks, and Techniques has 50 ways to improve your raytracings. [USA]
- POV-Ray Tips, Tricks, and Techniques has 50 ways to improve your raytracings. [USA]
- The PovRay Links (Growing collection of PovRay links and utils.) [USA]
- Vue d'Esprit now exports to POV ! (Generate superb landscapes and import them into POV...) [US]
- Modeller for PoV-Ray (New and FREE) [Germany]
- Free modeller for PoV-Ray (New) [Germany]
- VirtualWorlds for OS/2 POVRay modeller for OS/2 (POVRay) [USA]
- http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Ray.Tracing (POVRay) [Switzerland]
- The POVLAB modeller support site (3D modeller) [France]
- The Official Moray Homepage. (New URL!) [USA]
- POV-Ray en Castellano [Spain]
- Include file animation tool for POV-Ray Dave G's Animation System [Canada]
- Gautam N. Lad's POV-Ray Page (Many POV-Ray links!) [Canada]
- ForeSpace - PoV-modeller for OS/2, look at ForeSpace's site (ForeSpace modeller) [Australia]
- The Home Page for 3dto3d and pov2mdl. (Tools for Moray 2.0) [Germany]
- The Official Moray Home Page. [USA]
- The POVLAB modeller support site (3D modeller) [France]
- POV-Ray Texture of the Week (An origional texture for POV-Ray each week) [Australia]
- PVMPOV is a robust, parallel version of POV-Ray 2.2 using PVM. [Canada]
- Breeze Designer 2.0 modeller for POV-Ray (with VRML & RenderMAN export) [USA]
- Rolands POV Pages (POVRAY 3.0 Whats new) [Belgium]
- POV-Ray CD-ROM now on-line. (POV-Ray's official site) [U.S.A.]
- POV-Ray manual HTMLised (78 example images with source!) []
- POV-Ray Texture Of The Week (a new texture for Pov-Ray every week) [Australia]
- English mirror of FTP.POVRAY.ORG (POVRay) [U.K.]
- POVAFX 1.0, POV-Ray with (simple) atmospheric FX (POV-Ray) [USA]
- An improvement of POV-Ray 2.2 to work in parallel. POV-Pvm. Fast!!!. (POV-Ray now works in parallel!!!) [Finland]
- POV3-WaTCH! Pov 3.0 is coming..here is your source of pre-release info! (POVRay) [USA]
- Official European Mirror [U.K.]
- The official POV-Ray Home Page. [USA]
- The Official PovZine [[U.S.A]]
- Jeff Hauswirth's PoVSB Windows Modeler. [United States]
- The Other POV-Ray Home Page (Macintosh) [Netherlands]
- An animation tool (D/Animator) [U.S.A.]
- Mirror of various POV-Ray FTP sites (wuarchive) [U.S.A.]
- Mirror of the FTP site (Contains extra files) [Germany]
- Official FTP site (possibly down) [Aus]
- The FTP archive of all things POVable. [Canada]
- POV Ray manual in html form [U.S.A.]
- The POV Ray Home Pages (possibly down) [U.S.A.]
- The Official POV Ray FTP site (also cdrom.com mirror) [U.S.A.]
Radiance
- Architecture Uses (Radiosity rendered buildings) [N.Z.]
- Radiance WWW Service (Also a parallel implementation) [U.S.A.]
- Radiance WWW Server [Swiss]
RTrace
- Mirror of various RTrace FTP sites (wuarchive) [U.S.A.]
- RTrace's SCN input format [U.S.A.]
- A script file converter (Scn2Sff) and other tools [Portugal]
- Various images... Normal, Tests, Molecular, Medical and Stereo. [Portugal]
- Documentation and user guide [Portugal]
- Home Directory for RTrace (Includes binaries for most platforms) [Portugal]
Substance Project
- The FTP site for the project [U.S.A.]
- Mail the project... [U.S.A.]
Others
- Animation Factory / Mirage 3D Raytracer (Information on a Raytracer which is able to handle Lights of any shape with correct shadows/shading and Caustics...) [Germany]
- Lasr - lars' adaptive stochastic ray tracer. [Sweden]
- RayChase, A small recursive random raytracer wich generates nice pictures all by itself ! [usa]
- DragonRay is a ray tracer currently being developed that is similar to POV. (Also has parallel platform support.) [USA]
- The RAY++ Homepage (modular raytracer, C++) [Germany]
- Vue d'Esprit now animates and exports to POV ! (Free animation module to animate fantastic fractal landscapes. Must be seen !) [US]
- Imago by Axar Technologies (Powerful, inexpensive, 3d graphics software) [Canada]
- CIDLib C++ Class Libraries Frameworks for NT and VC++ (w/ OO fractal and ray tracing engines) [USA]
- The Vera Raytracer Project. (realistic and non-realistic rendering) [Norway]
- Behemot Graphic Editor (New name for older RT Editor) [Italy]
- Java, web page interactive Quadric Surface Imaging Raytracer (with multicoordinate system GUI) [USA]
- lightwave [Russia]
- Lightwave 3D (Lightwave 3D) [U.S.]
- Vue d'Esprit (This fantastic landscape generator is now available in English. Take a look at those pictures, and/or download a demo version) [USA]
- Fractal Designs Ray Dream Studio (Win/mac modeling/rendering package) [USA]
- The most bang for the buck IMAGINE from Impulse, Inc (Demos, Support, Free stuff) [USA]
- Rendering/Modeling for the PC and MAC Ray Dream Studio (DXF input/output, VRML support) [USA]
- Vue d'Esprit homepage (Virtual landscape generator) [USA]
- Numerical Design - rPlus (Commercial ray-tracing and radiosity rendering toolkit) [U.S.A.]
- The Rendezvous is a new page that should grow fast to Help where I can. (Travel, Games, Clubs,) [USA]
- FUN, INFORMATIVE, PROFITABLE [USA]
- The HELIOS Radiosity Renderer (C++ source included) [Canada]
- Reflector (Magzine from the REFLECTIONS-User Club (in german)) [Germoney]
- Home of Impulse Inc. Makers of Imagine 3D (Free Stuff Too!) [USA]
- The LUXART & LUMINANCE Home Page (written in French) [France]
- RayFont, an experimental raytracer for MS-Windows 95/NT. Multi-threaded, distributed, etc. (Under development.) [USA]
- William's Ray Tracer-- beta test my new ray-tracer! (Primitive ray-tracer) [USA]
- LightWorks Rendering Toolkit (Commercial ray-tracing and radiosity rendering toolkit) [USA]
- PiRT home page [Belgium]
- NeoN Graphix Demo (Others) [U.S.A.]
- Asymetrix Web 3D (Commercial, but inexpensive) [U.S.A.]
- VORT ray tracer home page (VORT ray tracer and images) [Australia]
- 3D things Macintosh Animation and 3D Modeling on the Mac (Book & Other Wisdom) [USA]
- The RayTracing Kernel GX/GENERIC (HyperOctree/BSP/ABVH in C++) [Germany]
- Visit the RayLab home-page! (New freeware tracer) [Sweden]
- RayStorm Home Page (Fast octree based raytracer) [Germany]
- RT raytracing Home Page . (New site for the freeware program) [Italy]
- Specular Infini-D (a great 3D package!) [USA]
- The MakeMPEG for 3DS page [Australia]
- GOOD (a highly extensible (C++)framework for interactive 3D graphics) [Germany]
- (The Terraformers' Guild-KPT Bryce info & graphics) [Canada]
- RT raytracing Home Page . (new) [Italy]
- Vector Reality for Windows 95/NT/3.1 [U.S.A]
- John Stone's Parallel Raytracing Software (JPG, MPEG, Docs etc) [U.S.A.]
- Animation Master (Hash inc Home Page) [U.S.A.]
- Truespace (MS Windows Raytracer) [U.S.A.]
- PolyRay documentation; HTML+ format; 180Kb (PolyRay) [Germany]
- BMRT Home Page (RenderMan-compliant raytracing/radiosity) [U.S.A.]
- Illumen 3D Pages (Commercial) [U.S.A.]
- The MTV raytracer: Documentation, Source Code and Sample Scripts [U.K.]
- GhostRay's Home Page (Sources, Pictures et al.) [U.K.]
- Ray23c Home Page (Pictures, MPEGs) [Slovenia]
- XRAY Home Page [Germany]
- Franck Diard's Photon4D ray tracer [France]
- Alias Sketch! (Commercial) [U.S.A.]
- The BMRT ray tracer (renders RenderMan files; also Radiosity) [U.S.A.]
- The Vivid ray-tracer [U.S.A.]
- The RT ray tracer [U.S.A.]
- Bernard Kwok's Radiosity program (Uses RTrace as a postprocessor) [Portugal]
bCAD
- Rob Coldwell's bCAD Appreciation Page (Try bCAD for yourself!) [UK]
- bCAD Official home page. (Updated weekly) [Russia]
- The bCAD site (bCAD ) [US]
Real 3D
- Real 3D Homepage (New Powerful Package) [USA]
- Real 3D Tutorials and RPL Info [Finland]
- REAL 3D in Europe (Online tutorials and more!) [UK]
- Real 3D Homepage (New Powerful Package) [USA]
Zen Grafik 3D Modeler
- Download Demo 3.1 (zendemo.zip 1.2MB) [br]
- Download your demo copy now! (zendemo.exe 1.2 MB) [Brasil]
- New Solid Modeler and Renderer for Win95 (Easy 3D Solid Modeling and Rendering) [Brasil]
- the PortRAY Ray-tracer page (LINUX Ray-Tracer) [U.K.]
- Laser 2.0 Raytracer in Java (Free) [USA]
- http://www.ndl.com (Professional Ray Tracing Toolkit) [USA]