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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...

This is the Utah Raster Toolkit distribution version 3.0 of June, 1990. ~~~ librle.a, image.rle file type support, animation, rletogif, converters, many utilities. RLE format supports a great number of raw inner formats for applications to use, known together as .rle (ie, "stored windowing") ~~~ The Utah Raster toolkit is a collection of programs and C routines for dealing with raster images commonly encountered in computer graphics. It provides the following major functions...

PHIGS is an API standard for rendering 3D computer graphics. During the 1990's OpenGL became a more popular 3D API for professionals, and it still is today. PHIGS remains to be widely used in the film industry. Open PHIGS uses OpenGL for rendering graphics rather than implementing it's own abstraction layer to the graphics hardware, or using the PHIGS Extension to X (PEX). The reason for doing so is that today every graphics card manufacturer provides their own OpenGL implementation, which...