Open Source Python 3D Rendering Software

Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs. It infers the geometry of a scene from a set of unordered photographies or videos. Photography is the projection of a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, losing depth information. The goal of photogrammetry is to reverse this process. The dense modeling of the scene is the result yielded by chaining two computer vision-based pipelines, “Structure-from-Motion” (SfM) and “Multi View Stereo” (MVS). Fusion of Multi-bracketing LDR images into HDR. Alignment of panorama images. Support for fisheye optics. Automatically estimate fisheye circle or manually edit it. Take advantage of motorized-head file. Easy to integrate in your Renderfarm System. Add specific rules to select the most suitable machines regarding CPU, RAM, GPU requirements of each Node.

K-3D is the free (as in freedom) 3d modeling, animation, and rendering system.

Armory is an open-source 3D engine focused on portability, minimal footprint and performance. The renderer is fully scriptable with deferred and forward paths supported out of the box. Armory provides a full Blender integration add-on, turning it into a complete game development tool. The result is a unified workflow from start to finish. Powered by Armory engine, ArmorPaint is a stand-alone software designed for physically-based texture painting. Drag & drop your 3D models and start painting. Receive instant visual feedback in the viewport as you paint. Powered by Armory engine, ArmorLab is stand-alone software designed for AI-powered texture authoring. Generate PBR materials by drag & dropping your photos. In development! Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration. The engine is currently available in a form of early preview.

Kokua is an open source metaverse viewer project based on the Second Life Viewer source. Disclaimer: This software is not provided or supported by Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. The goal of Kokua is to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer through community involvement, thoughtful design, modern development methods, and a pro-change atmosphere.

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.

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/

PyOpenGL is the binding layer between Python and OpenGL.

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...

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.

House3D is a large-scale virtual 3D simulation environment designed to support research in embodied AI, reinforcement learning, and vision-language navigation. It provides more than 45,000 richly annotated indoor scenes sourced from the SUNCG dataset, covering diverse architectural layouts such as studios, multi-floor homes, and spaces with detailed furnishings and room types. Each environment includes fully labeled 3D objects, allowing agents to perceive and interact with their surroundings through multiple sensory modalities including RGB images, depth maps, semantic segmentation masks, and top-down maps. The simulator is optimized for high-performance rendering, achieving thousands of frames per second to enable efficient large-scale training of RL agents. House3D has served as the foundation for several influential research projects such as RoomNav (for concept-based navigation) and Embodied Question Answering (EQA).

This project is not currently being supported but feel free to use it as an example. delta3d is a robust simulation platform built using open standards and open source software. It features full toolchain development supporting a wide variety of free and commercial software.

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.

The Python Computer Graphics Kit is a collection of Python modules that contain the basic types and functions to be able to create 3D computer graphics images (focusing on Pixar's RenderMan interface).

This project is no longer active. See vpython.org.

InnerWorld is a landscape builder for Blender, the 3D modeling tool. Using a graph editor terrains can be generated from Blenders noise functions and from external sources. Objects can automatically placed dependent of the terrains geometry.

PoJamas aims to provide a Python and tools for loading, processing, and producing .cr2, pz3 (crz, pzz) files compatible with the SmithMicro (e-frontier) Poser character animation application. PoJamas is composed of: - Python library - Python Wavefront (.obj) 3D viewer based on GLFW - LibreOffice/Python Application (to ease the library and the viewer usage) As of 2020, the project is ported in Python3 As of 2021 this project proposes a 3D viewer for Wavefront files (pypos3dv) PyPosPosLO v0.15 (and above) provides the means to easily create Poser Mechanical Character. Results can be seen here: https://sharecg.com/v/94509/view/11/Poser/Hawker-Tempest-Character-v2

MayaVi is a free, cross platform, easy to use scientific data visualizer. It provides a GUI to ease the visualization process, is written in Python and uses the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for the graphics.

Imprudence is an open source metaverse viewer project based on the Second Life Viewer source. The goal of Imprudence is to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer through community involvement, thoughtful design, modern development methods, and a pro-change atmosphere.

DirectPython 11 is a C++ extension to the Python programming language which provides access to the Direct3D 11 API.

Kokua is an open source metaverse viewer project based on the Second Life Viewer source. Disclaimer: This software is not provided or supported by Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. The goal of Kokua is to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer through community involvement, thoughtful design, modern development methods, and a pro-change atmosphere.

V-Ray integration to Blender

The Zombie engine is an open source game engine and framework based in The Nebula Device 2, the open source engine from Radon Labs. Developed by Tragnarion Studios, it is mainly oriented towards the creation of multiplayer PC action games.

Free 3D Acropolis is a model 3D in hight resolution of the Acropolis of Athens shortly after its construction.

A Maya plug-in for importing Massive simulations.

Pierre-Yves, August 2016