Open Source C 3D Rendering Software

VirtualGL redirects 3D commands from a Unix/Linux OpenGL application onto a server-side GPU and converts the rendered 3D images into a video stream with which remote clients can interact to view and control the 3D application in real time.

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library is a simple tool that helps C/C++ developers initialize extensions and write portable applications. GLEW currently supports a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Darwin, Irix, and Solaris.

A free OpenGL utility toolkit, the open-sourced alternative to the GLUT library.

BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the desktop. It provides a simple API for creating windows, contexts and surfaces, receiving input and events.

The Pure Data (short Pd) project on SourceForge unifies the extensions (or externals) written for the Pure Data Graphical Computer Music System written by Miller Puckette with contributions from many others.

LPub3D is an Open Source WYSIWYG editing application for creating LEGO® style digital building instructions. LPub3D is developed and maintained by Trevor SANDY. It uses the LDraw™ parts library, the most comprehensive library of digital Open Source LEGO® bricks available (www.ldraw.org/ ) and reads the LDraw LDR and MPD model file formats. LPub3D is available for free under the GNU Public License v3 and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS Operating Systems. LPub3D is also available as a Linux 'no-install', multi-platform AppImage. Portions of LPub3D are based on LPUB© 2007-2009 Kevin Clague, LeoCAD© 2025 Leonardo Zide, LDView© 2025 Travis Cobbs & Peter Bartfai and additional third party components. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this application. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this application. © 2015-2025 Trevor SANDY

FreeWRL is an Open Source, cross platform VRML2 and X3D compliant browser, with script, SAI and EAI support. Platforms supported: Linux and other Unix-style platforms; Mac OS/X; Windows. Support for mobile platforms (iOS, Android, QNX) is under development.

Pixie is a photorealistic renderer that uses a RenderMan-like interface. Features include programmable shading, motion blur, depth of field, raytracing, scan-line rendering, occlusion culling, global illumination, caustics ...

GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK+. It provides additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK+, and GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.

An implementation of the OpenGL API.

NEWS: now gnu-ized, get it from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rayshade/ Rayshade is a 1990's raytracer, a great one back then. It has value in support of existing software and raytrace scene files, which ranges from legacy files to existing CAD software that can export 3D scenes Rayshade can build a scene for. Files Section has a patch allowing Rayshade to build in Linux more fully / less errors than the tiny redhat patch that can be found. The Utah Raster Toolkit is a "depends" - it needs to be installed before Rayshade builds so images can become viewable format. http://sourceforge.net/projects/rayshade/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/rayshade-math/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/utahrastertoolkit/ NOTE: Rayshade is unmaintained so no longer competitive to povray. And neither are competitive to RADIANCE. But see homepage or examples; Rayshade has good sides: great documentation and easier radiance style file format: but no GUI for design.

OpenGLChecker is a fast and smooth program that retrieves relevant information about your OpenGL implementation. It can also test your computer's performance with fully scripted benchmarks. This allows you to write your own benchmark scripts for testing your OpenGL performance.

now gnu-ized, gcc-4.7.4 or gcc-10.2.0 A raytracer does not require custom code for (shadows, mirrors) like GL: it uses physics to simulate light to make realistic images, leaving one to specify only what is in the scene. (at a cost of speed) Rayshade is a 1990's raytracer, a great one back then (and still useful). Rayshade has an excellent easy to read yet informative User's Guide that other's could not help but copy from. (html of guide is in rayshade-4.0-ftp-and-guide.tar.gz) Rayshade has no GUI but as a text language it's simple and elegant. --- The Utah Raster Toolkit 'liburt' is "optional" (see Files) and needed to see your output and adds alpha texures: see NEWS. (do NOT use URT with Rayshade-Mathematica, it likes raw rgb). export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DPOPEN -DUSE_CPP" [ -n "$WITH_URT" ] && { CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/usr/local/include -DURT" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib64" LIBS=" /usr/local/lib64/librle.a export LDFLAGS LIBS } sh ./configure

Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D clone of Space Invaders developed with the OpenGL API. The host language is C/C++, and the OS platform Windows. For Windows Vista/Seven, the program must be "Run as administrator". I'll do a fix if I have time. Thanks.

The Open-Source PyMOL repository has been moved to github: https://github.com/schrodinger/pymol-open-source We still use the pymol-users mailing list here on sourceforge. Please subscribe for community support: https://pymol.org/maillist (Note: SourceForge email newsletter and special offers are optional and can be unchecked) The PyMOL community wiki has its own home: https://pymolwiki.org/

Geomview is an interactive 3D viewing program for Unix. Geomview lets you view and manipulate three- and higher-dimensional objects, and can also be used as a display engine by other programs to animate objects. Geomview supports OpenGL and uses a Motif X interface.

Project closed ! Please use JOGL. http://jogamp.org OpenGL[tm] for Java[tm], formerly known as GL4Java, supports Java with a native OpenGL mapping. The OS native OpenGL functionality is avaiable from

UPDATE: Chromium is no longer updated or maintained. The project is frozen. Chromium is a flexible framework for scalable real-time rendering on clusters of workstations, derived from the Stanford WireGL project code base.

Teem is a set of C libraries for manipulation, measurement, and visualization of structured scientific data. Includes N-dimensional image I/O and processing, volume rendering, diffusion tensor processing, and more. Latest code via git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/teem/teem.git . Join us at https://discord.gg/xBBqZGXkF7

GLE is a library of C functions that draw extruded surfaces, including surfaces of revolution, sweeps, tubes, polycones, polycylinders and helicoids. GLE uses the OpenGL(R) API to perform the actual rendering.

Ayam is a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface.

Togl provides a platform independent Tk widget for using OpenGL rendering contexts.

Explore procedural worlds on your GPU. Worlds are defined by GLSL programs that map XYZ coordinates to the distance to the nearest surface. Design your own worlds, modify parameters in realtime and render hires videos of your recorded journey.

Spectrum3d is a software for Linux that displays the harmonics of the sound in 3D, either in real-time or from a preloaded file. It is multitouch and compatible with JACK. It uses OpenGL, SDL, Gstreamer, Gtk+ and (optionally) libjack.