A Java3D graphics tool that can be used to implement graphics applications for various purposes. Provides the user interface in which a three-dimensional objects can be manipulated with ease. The application also allows you to generate code from the scene in the Java language automatically, so that objects can be created and used to run graphical applications later.
Plethora is a NetBeans plugin that provides a designer and a code-generator for Looking Glass 3D (http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass) applications. You can download a live CD for LG3D from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lg3d-livecd
A utility to help create animations in POV-Ray, a free raytracer. In your POV-Ray code, insert variable names instead of numbers for any values which may change. An #include file is generated based on keyframes which will fill in those variabes.