BRL-CAD

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.

Project Samples

Stryker ICV w/ Slat Armor rendered with ADRT/RISE

Mike Muuss working with BRL-CAD on the PDP-11/70

Small bicycle wheel. Model downloadable from "Geometry"

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License

BSD License, GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Desktop Operating Systems, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, BSD, Mac, Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Science/Research, Education, Manufacturing, Advanced End Users, Developers, Other Audience

User Interface

X Window System (X11), OpenGL, Framebuffer, Web-based, Non-interactive (Daemon), Command-line, Tk

Programming Language

Unix Shell, C++, C, PHP, Tcl, Java

Database Environment

Other API, Other file-based DBMS

Registered

2004-03-23

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