Open Source Linux 3D Rendering Software - Page 3

The Retribution Engine is designed for first person shooter games on Windows PCs using OpenGL and OpenAL. It is supplied with a range of games and levels and includes fully featured level and model editors. On Linux the game and tools work fine using wine/bottles and the game can also be imported into Steam client and runs on proton experimental.

OGRE-Next is the next-generation iteration of the OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine), a powerful open-source 3D rendering engine designed for real-time applications, games, simulations, and visualizations. It focuses on high-performance rendering pipelines, especially Vulkan and modern OpenGL, offering tools for photorealistic and stylized rendering. OGRE-Next is modular and flexible, providing a developer-friendly environment with scene management, lighting, shadowing, and post-processing features. With improved performance and a focus on modern graphics APIs, it's ideal for developers building next-gen 3D engines or simulations.

Radiance is a free, highly accurate ray-tracing software system for UNIX computers. It is a suite of programs designed for the analysis and visualization of lighting in design. Radiance is superior to simpler lighting calculation and rendering tools in that there are no limitations on the geometry or the materials that may be simulated. Scene geometry, materials, luminaires, time, date and sky conditions (for daylight calculations) are specified; spectral radiance (ie. luminance + color), irradiance (illuminance + color) and glare indices are calculated. Simulation results may be displayed as color images, numerical values and contour plots. Radiance is useful for architects and engineers in predicting illumination, visual quality and appearance of innovative design spaces; and for researchers in evaluating new lighting and daylighting technologies.

The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is a scientific, LGPL-ed library for bio- and cheminformatics and computational chemistry written in Java. The main home page of the CDK is now at: http://cdk.github.io

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.

Sh is a predecessor to the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform, a metaprogramming language for programmable GPUs. It is the result of research at the University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab.

G3D is a commercial-grade C++ 3D engine. It is used in commercial games, research papers, military simulators, and university courses. G3D supports real-time rendering, off-line rendering like ray tracing, and general purpose computation on GPUs. As of January 16, 2018, SourceForge is again the home of the active repository for G3D.

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

The direct rendering infrastructure (DRI) allows is a means of safely and efficiently accessing graphics hardware while still interacting with the X environment.

SaVi - simulate Starlink, Iridium, Globalstar, O3b, GPS, Galileo and other satellite constellations, modify them, or design your own. Requires Tcl/Tk and Unix libraries; 3D viewing option requires Geomview running on X Window.

AllegroGL is a small library intended to allow Allegro applications to use OpenGL in Unix, Windows, Mac OS X and DOS.

Renderer for flam3 cosmic recursive fractal flames implemented on GPU. Requires a CUDA-capable graphics card.

Earth3D is a program to display the earth as a 3D globe (including heightfields) in real-time. One can zoom until cities become visible. It uses huge datasets that are loaded on demand over the internet. It is possible to embed dynamic data into the view

WorldWind Java is an open-source virtual globe SDK developed by NASA that allows developers to embed a 3D Earth visualization into Java applications. It renders detailed global terrain and satellite imagery, and supports real-time geographic data overlays, making it ideal for applications in geospatial analysis, education, simulation, and scientific visualization. With its flexible API and plugin system, WorldWind Java is a powerful platform for building interactive geospatial applications that need accurate globe rendering and data integration.

Tulip is an information visualization framework dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data. Tulip aims to provide the developer/user with a complete library/software, supporting the design of interactive information visualization

Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, and MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL and features GLSL shaders, CG shaders, deferred rendering, dynamic shadows, bullet based physics library, terrain engine, skeleton based animation meshes, exporter for Blender, portals, etc...

Arbaro is an implementation of the tree generating algorithm described in Jason Weber & Joseph Penn: Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees

A graph-based procedural texture editor to create 2d seamless textures for real-time rendering applications.

The so3DTools aims to provide many different helper class, examples and tutorial in C++ for OGRE3D. It aims to make understand how to use some advanced features in OGRE 3D. It is LGPL. At 2011/03/28, the project contains 20 tutorials + Ogre.chm.

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer source tarball. This release of POVRay is intended for building on Linux or Apple Sierra OS. It fixes a couple compile time obstructions. It does not require MacPorts (but Apple X-Code is required of course). On mac it will have image output but no gui pop-up window. Please see http://www.povray.org for other/official releases. To build do the iconic: # ./configure # make # make install

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/

ClutterFlow is a CoverFlow clone for the Banshee media player. ClutterFlow uses the Clutter toolkit to harness the OpenGL powers. For more info: http://gitorious.org/banshee-community-extensions/pages/ClutterFlow

QuteMol is a real time, high quality molecular visualizer that offers an array of innovative visual effects. QuteMol aims at improving the clarity of rendered images and at offering a better understanding of the molecular 3D shape and spatial structure.

OpenGLEAN: A GLUT family member gone lean.

Structure Synth generates 3D structures by specifying a design grammar. Even simple systems may generate surprising and complex structures. Structure Synth offers a graphical environment with multiple tabs, syntax highlighting, and OpenGL preview.