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]


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