Bookmarks for Ken
- POV-TAG - The POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group
- Established by the POV-Team (the current
authors of the Persistence of Vision
Raytracer) in late 1999, the TAG is made
up of selected members of the POV-Ray
user community. The purpose of the TAG is
to aid the POV-Team in supporting users of
POV-Ray around the world, using the
collective knowledge of the group to answer
users' POV-Ray questions and to bring
POV-Ray related matters to the attention of
the POV-Team as required.
3D Animation Utilities
- avi2mpg1 - avi to mpeg-1 encoder
- Avi2mpg1 is a freeware Windows '95/NT
.avi to mpeg-1 .mpg file encoder. It is not a
GUI app, rather it runs at the command
prompt. This program does have sound
capabilities.
- Avi Creator
- Create AVI files from Bitmaps and cons
instantly. You can now modify the scale/rate
of your AVIs. Very simple and free to use.
- AVIEDIT
- Tiny program to edit and build AVI's.
Requires Video for Windows.
- AVI to Mpeg1
- conversion/encoders freeware
- Mainvision
- MainVision is a powerful commercial media
compositing, vector animation and special
effects software used to create broadcast
quality video in off-line mode. This 32-bit
Windows application lets you compose
video, stills, sound and vector objects in
professional motion graphics.
Site offers are free demo version.
- bmp2avi
- It's a program to transform BMP files
generated by POV-Ray to a noncompressed AVI file. The main goal is the "interlace"
option. Use "Field_Render=On" and
"Odd_Field=On". Then use BMP2AVI to
correctly transform in an AVI file suitable for
Premiere or other program. This program is
intented (specially) for high resolution
rendering for real video broadcast output.
- Bumper
- Will allow you to preview a series of images before compiling as animation
- CMPEG Windows GUI Front End
- This new program offers Windows users a
GUI front end for the ever popular Cmpeg
animation encoder. The final version is now
available for download.
- Cutter
- Linux animation utility with AVI, RAW and PPM input and DivX :-) output.
- DISPLAY
- Alternative download site for Display
- DTA v3.0 Final Version
- This is the newly released version of
DTA 3.0 (Dave's Targa Animator) 12/99.
- DDClip
- Multitrack real-time audio and video editor adds sound to AVI's
- Fast Movie Processor AVIS animation
- Ligos Technology MPEG-2 encoders
- Commercial MPEG encoding and video
compression for digital video recording and
multimedia in a software solution.
- MainConcept
- Shareware animation program with advanced capabilities
- Mkavi.zip
- An avi animation utility for dos and unix/linux
- MOV2AVI
- Converts MOV files into AVI files.
- Movie2MPEG
- QuickTime Movie (.mov) to MPEG1
converter for Macintosh.
- Movie Utils
- At the Info Mac Hyper-archive, too many to
list here.
- MPEG.ORG
- The ultimate source for Mpeg information.
You can find the CMPEG program here
- Mpeg2 Encoder and Decoder
- Works only with .ppm image files
- Mpeg2 Encoder and Decoder
- Works only with .ppm image files
- Mpeg2 encoder w/codec
- Mpeg2 software
- MPEG_Join
- Camel's MPEGJoin is a small utility to join
MPEG files. It's a very simple program and
all it does is join MPG files but it does this
very well if used correctly..
- MPEG Plaza - Software
- Mpeg software for encoding and playing
mpeg files.
- ppm2fli_2.0d and Unflick
- ppm2fli generates FLI animation files form a
series of images. Unflick is a utility to extract
images from a FLI animation. The programs
are written for UNIX like machines.
- PVR-MPEG1 for Dos
- QuickTime
- QuickTime 3.0 upgrade allows you to render
QuickTime movies directly with POV. Also
plays the new MPEG codec and plays AVI's
as well. Upgrade to QT Pro for converting
PICT and JPEG images into QuickTime
movies. For the Mac OS
- Smacker/Bink Tools
- Free tool for making Bink (.bik) animations,
converting between animation formats (.bik,
.avi, .mpg) and between still formats (.bmp,
.gif, .jpg etc.) and other things.
- SoftByte Labs
- Download web files, site ripper, duplicate files, rename files, encrypt files, spam filtering, email monitoring
- TFM MPEG Scissors
- This Program was created for easy editing
of MPEG Files. It makes it easy to cut and
join multiple MPEG files. Windows 32 operating System (Win 95 / 98 / NT / 2000)
- TGA2AVI
- Animation Conversion Program Win95/NT
- Vid Edit
- The AVI editor. Build or edit. Insert many
formats.
- VideoMach
- VideoMach is a powerful audio/video
builder and converter. Use it to construct
video clips from still images, enhance your
recorded material or convert video, audio
and image files between many supported
formats. VideoMach is the successor to
Fast Movie Processor.
- Win Mpeg II Animation Encoder
- This program is a Win32 console application
that allows you to compile mpeg II
animations using .png image files as the
input file format. Freeware.
Compression Codecs
- Compression Works CODEC's
- Site contains several different codecs
available for download including both
audio and video.
- Intel Codec Installer [CODINSTL.EXE]
- Adds Codecs for the following:
Intel® PC Camera Pro Pack
Intel® PC Camera Pack
Intel® Create & Share Camera Pack
- LEAD Technologies video CODEC
- LEAD's Video Codec is a multimedia
compressor/decompressor.
- SlaveTrainer's I263 FAQ And Help Page
- Discusses the I.263 codec, how to install it,
trouble shooting proceedures, and where to
download it.
- Video broadcasting products
POV-Ray Utilities and Include Files
- Anim8 and Povtick
- POV-Ray animation utilities
- The Animation System
- New Version of The Animation System.
Now supports Waypoints. Kinda like
Keyframes, but different.
- AniTMT
- With the help of AniTMT you can create
and calculate computer animated films. Its
main intention is to provide a powerful script
language for doing that. It is supposed to
both enable you to code animations as
plain/text and to provide an interface for the
(further) development of software like GUI
modellers. Currently supports POV-Ray output.
- Autofly.inc
- Animation banking utility
- Buckyball Page
- Program creates POV-Ray file of Buckballs colliding used for POV-Ray animation
- Flag animation toolkit
- Dave G's POV-Ray Animation System
- Poet3-D Animation System
- Poet3-D is a freeware animation system
which supports character animation, a click
and drag interface, and real-time playback
and editing via the OpenGL library. This
system is designed to export to the Pov-Ray
raytracer.
- POV-Ray Animation System
- Theresa Willis' Walking Animation
- Varmint's POV-Ray Animator Home Page
3D Discussion Forums
- Artists Discussion Forum
- Come and spread your word on Computer
Arts and Animation. Speak with others about
New and Old tips and techniques on 3D
Computer Art using such tools as 3D Studio
Max, Maya, Softimage, etc... or just to talk
about 3D Computer Generated Art Period.
- eGroups : pov_ray
- An English discussion of the POV raytracer and images produced with it. All members of
this list are encouraged to submit their own
artwork to this group, provided the artwork is
produced with POV Ray or another
raytracer.
- IHT CG Discussion Forum
- 3DstudioMAX, Lightwave, Maya, Softimage and more; the best italian computer graphics forum.
- POV-Ray News Groups - news.povray.org
- These are the news groups hosted by the
developers of POV-Ray. There are several
different discussion topics including
animation, unofficial patches, programming,
general topics, unix, IRTC
competition, and a group for posting of
images for critique by other users. Once you
have added the server to your list you will
still need to subscribe to the individual
groups. Be sure to stop first in the
povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions
group for info on group posting guidlines
- The POV-Ray Newsgroups - Web Interface
- This is the web based access to the
POV-Ray news groups. This is an
invaluable resource for any and all POV-Ray
users.
- RenderMania
- A website dedicated to everything BMRT and RenderMan related.
- Renderosity.com
- The 3D artists community.
- TrueSpace 4-um
- A forum to discuss all aspects of using trueSpace, to get help on the program, and post their own work in the gallery forum for comments and suggestions.
3D Image and Texture Resources
- Area Map Search Form
- USGS Mapping Information
- Charles Poynton - Color technology
- Computer Software for Tiling Images
- Site contains a list of several software
programs specifically for tiling images.
- Converter's Paradise
- Graphic File Conversion programs
- Default RGB colour space - sRGB
- Draft and white paper on sRGB, the future web standard for images.
- The Graphics File Format Page
- Michelangelo
- Italian sculpters links
- Put your 3D images on photographic prints
- This site is geared towards 'developing'
digital images or photos. But what can be
done is to submit your 3D rendered scene
as a JPEG file and they will print it on
photographic quality 4x6 prints. If you sign
up soon, the first 100 4X6 prints are free.
Image Resources
- Astronomical Data Center
- Catalog of Star charts and all things star related
- Body References for 3D artists
- Castle Image Archive
- Download Planet Earth
- Site contains links to DEM (digital elevation
maps) of the entire globe in various
resolutions.
- Imageafter ** Free Images and Textures Database
- Images FTP Free
- Many catagories including Raytracing
- Image Link
- Map of island in cooks inlet Alaska
- The Internet Ray Tracing Competition
- The Internet Ray Tracing Competition is an
open competition. Deadline for still image
submission is every two months; for
animations, every three months. Participants
may use any 3D rendering program they
choose. If you want to see the best there is
in 3D rendering and raytracing this is the
place to go.
- Maps of the Solar System
- Welcome to the solar system surface map
database, a NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass
on the cosmos. Select your planetary system
of choice and download maps, or browse
the surface features of your favorite planet
or satellite!
- The Modelsheet Archive
- Welcome to the modelsheet archive. The
collection displayed here has been gathered
from sevral sites on the internet and from
many wonderfull people who are willing to
share their wealth. This is intended as
reference only for animators and aspiring
animators.
- Nebulae Page
- Offers pictures of Nebula for background applications
- Photovault Stock Photos
- Images of Pollen, Plant Pics, Photos, and Flowers. This is a very comprehensive
photo data base and well worth the time
exploring.
- USGS us .DEM maps
- Dem maps scaled at 1:1,000,000
- Xglobe/Xplanet Maps
- Each map set consists of a 200x100
"thumbnail" image, a 400x200 very low
resolution image, a 800x400 "standard"
resolution image, and a high resolution
image of up to 1600x800 pixels. There
are also super-hi-res images of up to
2400x1200 pixels. Most map sets avialable
here are copyright free.
Texture Resources
- 3DCAFE'S FREE TEXTURES
- 3D Texture Libraries and Backgrounds from TextureWorld
- Thousands of professional, high-quality, photorealisitc seamless textures for game developers and architects and more.
- Absolute Background Textures Archive
- 2800+ Free Tiling Background Textures
- Absolute Cross
- The One-Stop Spot for Free Online
Graphics, Tips, Tools & Resources.
Seemless tilable textures available.
- Doc Browns Background images/textures
- Free Art Textures
- Small collection but good
- Iain's Textures
- Image_maps
- From:3D Photorealism Toolkit
- Marlin Studios
- Professional CDs of seamless textures and lots of free samples.
- Mega Grafx ® Textures Library
- 10 Pages full of texture resources
- Phillean Wood Textures
- A great collection of wood texture maps.
- Planet Textures
- Public Textures
- Photographic images that may be used as
3D textures in your scenes. All high resolution. 350+ images.
- Renfield Imaging
- A growing gallery of the Web's most intriguing seamless textures. All images free for download. New images monthly.
- Rob's Granite Page
- Stone texture library
- Tiles and stone vendor with an incredible library of textures (marble, granite etc.)
- SMW Enterprise
- Publisher and Design Studio of uniquely ornamented, high-resolution textures all
totaly free.
- Technoweenie
- Textures, Bump Maps, and Materials
- TerraMetrics
- Commercial Images for Topo maps/HF's Samples only
- Textures
- General Collection - some good
- Textures
- Texture, Maps, Materials, Bumps (skin)
- Textures
- Free 125 - some good most poor quality
- Textures
- Free: Good assortment - nice collection of Grayscales - good for bumpmaps etc
- Textures
- By: Laboratoriet - 116 photorealistic texture maps.
- Textures
- Human and Monster textures
- Textures
- University collection - Many stones and brick textures
- Textures Archive
- A large collection of Textures catagorized
for easy selection.
- Textures FTP
- Free - These are poorly identified but sampling showed nice surprises
- Texture Gallery
- A free collection of cool and original
mapping textures
- Texture Land
- Abnormal Textures
- Texture Land !
- Normal Textures
- Texture Library
- POV-Ray v3.0-Textures
- Texture Project
- Here is a site of free lo-res and high-res
manmade and natural textures.
- Texture Shoppe
- Texture Station
- Tiling backgrounds, textures, desktop wallpaper
- Texture Studio
- Free textures. Just give credit. 19.1 Mb
zipped. Bmp mostly and some jpg +
tutorial to make textures with photoshop.
All high quality textures with some very
interesting patterns.
- Travis Price Digital Craftsman
- 342 free photographic textures.
- Toob's Tiled Textures
- 100% seamless tileable textures, free! Request hard-to-find textures here.
3D Link Sites
Cad Links
- AutoCad Links from CADsyst
- Shareware products for ACAD
- AutoCAD Rsrc Gid
- CAD,CAM,DATA EXCHANGE
- CAD Outpost
- 3D Design Software and Accessories
- Circuitmaker files
- Linux- CAD Shrine
- Information and links about 3D CAD/Modelling systems for UNIX Operating systems.
- OpenDWG Alliance
- The OpenDWG Alliance is an association of
CAD customers and vendors committed to
promoting Autodesk AutoCAD's DWG
drawing file format as an open, industry -
standard format for the exchange of CAD
drawings.
- Wolfram Research, Inc., Makers of Mathematica
- 3D Animation Workshop
- webreference.com --3d animation tutorials and resources
- 3d links
- Site contains many links to 3D resources
many of which are 3D model sites.
- 3dRender.com
- 3DSite
- General Source of 3D Info, links, tutorial, and models.
- Bob's omniVERSE Links Page
- Computer Graphics Bookmarks
- Has a very extensive listing of resources including links to siggraph papers
- Computer Graphics Links
- Contains links to University, Goverment, and Private Graphics researches
- Cutting edge 3D computer graphics
- Keeping you abreast of advances in the
field of 3d computer graphics.
- Daniel Skarda's Rendering and Graphics Links
- This is an extensive collection of links even
if a bit disorganized
- Discount Dons 3D Links - Large list
- DMOZ Open Directory of 3D Links
- Nice collection of links to 3D resources
including POV-Ray.
- Dreams and magic links
- A comprehensive source of links to 3D materials and activites
- Exstream Guide to 3d on the Web
- Comprehensive listing of links to 3D
resources.
- Favorite CG links
- Maintained by: Henrik Wann Jensen
- Favorite Links of Andrea and Friedrich Lohmueller
- Has a nice collection of links to POV-Ray
related sites. Also, take time to visit his
raytracing and photo gallery - nice stuff
- Find 3D - 3D Search Engine
- 3D search engine for 3d sites and 3d
models
- GraphicsMuse
- Graphics Resources for the Unix Desktop
- JuHu's Graphics and 3D Links
- Many outdated but a large # of links are listed
- Lannie's 3D Model World
- Site contains several resources for Bryce
and 3D graphics in general. Includes
links to free model sites, Poser resources,
texture and plugins links, plus others.
- Larry Gritz's Links Page
- Larry is the author of BMRT (Blue Moon
Rendering Tools) and also an employee
of Pixar who offers the commercial quality
Renderman suite of software and brought
you Toy Story to the big screen.
- Linux 3D Links
- Site contains and excellent section on
sites that offer 3D utilities for the Linux
platform. Many POV-Ray related resources
are listed. Site is in French only.
- MacOS 3D Web Directory
- A large list of 3D programs compatible with
the Macintosh OS.
- Macintosh POV-Ray Resources
- A detailed list of Macintosh POV utilities, although some of the links are getting a bit out of date.
- Mark Jeffers 3D Resource Page
- Mostly True Space Related
- POV-Ray.ORG Links Page
- This is the official povray.org links page hosted by the makers of POV-Ray. This
is a very comprehensive list of links related to POV-Ray and 3D graphics in general.
You are encouraged to contribute links to this site so that it's usefulness to others may grow. Contact linkmaster@povray.org to
contribute links.
- POV-Ray Site
- A Directory of Pov-Ray related sites and their content - French based
- POV-Ray
- POV-Ray Resources on the Net
- POV-Ray Webring
- A web ring dedicated to users of the program POV-Ray
- POV-Ray Ring Japan
- This is the main page of the POV-Ray Web
Ring in Japan.
- Procedural Texture Page
- Links to sources of info on Proceedural texturing
- Ray Tracing Link Page
- POV-Ray - Artists, Graphics, Modelling, etc. links
- Renderman Links Collection
- This link site, posted by DotCSoftware inc. is
a collection of every known renderman
compliant renderer made, from 1987 to the
present.
- Rob's Page
- Freeware, 3D Studio IPAS, POV-Ray, PwrBasic, Gifs, Links & ?
- Siggraph 98 Links
- Steiner Surfaces
- Large Links section to sites with info on parametric surfaces
- Thomas' PoV-Ray Corner
- Nice collection of links to POV-Ray users
sites.
- Ultimate 3D Objects
- Free Models Links list - Good reference source
- Web 3D VRML WRL Search Engine
- Perl based 3D search engine, shapemaker,
terrain maker engine, and shape object
library.
3D Magazines, Lists, and FAQ's
- ACM SIGGRAPH Online!
- A 3D Club
- Comp Gfx & Ani Artists. Montly modelling contest -membership free
- CPU-Benchmark with POVRAY
- This Web page contains a list of CPU
Benchmarks done with the raytracing
program POVRAY.
- DemoNews.com
- List of 3d program demos available on the web.
- IMP POV-Ray Internet Movie Project Homepage
- Pixar Home Page
- The Makers of Toy Story and the Renderman Program
- POVBENCH - The Official Home Page
- Ray Tracing News Guide
- Rendering software List - Paul T. Bourk's
- A comprehansive list of raytracing and rendering programs
- Rendering Times News
- Renderology
- Industrial 3D Modeling and Rendering
Resources
- Shawn Fumo's POV-Ray Utilities List
- 3 pages of POV-Ray related utilities and resources complete with descriptions and
contact information
- TOUECCANS Home
- Software reviews of both animated and non animated 2D/3D graphics programs
FAQ's
- Alt.binaries.pictures FAQ
- AVI FAQ
- AVI Graphics Format FAQ
- Comp.fonts FAQ
- Comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ
- Comp.graphics.animation FAQ
- Comp.graphics.misc FAQ
- Comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing FAQ
- Gamma FAQ and Color FAQ
- Graphics File Formats FAQ
- Graphic Utilities' Site & Version FAQ
- Internet FAQ Archives
- The Java 3D FAQ
- Java 3D(TM) API FAQ
- JPEG FAQ
- Medical Image Volume Visualization Software FAQ
- MPEG-FAQ: multimedia compression [1/9]
- MPEG-2 FAQ - Table of Contents
- OpenGL FAQ
- POV-Ray VFAQ
- This is must reading for all new users of the
program POV-Ray. This faq answers the
most commonly asked questions in the news
groups and was put together by many
experienced volunteers.
- Printing FAQ
- RenderMan FAQ
- Robotics FAQ
- Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ
- Sphere FAQ
- Stereogram / SIRDS / SIS FAQ
- Technical Illustration FAQ
- USENET FAQ's
Online Magazines
- 3D Artist Magazine Info
- 3DEZine home
- Online informational resource and
interactive forum for Web 3D- The
VirtuWorlds' 3DEZine! Tips, tutorials, and 3D articles
are just some of the highlights of this site.
- 3dRender.com
- A general interest 3D rendering information
site. Quality information and informative
articles available.
- 3D World Magazine
- News, features, reviews and discussion of everything 3D.
- Animation Artist Magazine
- The best animation resource on the Web!
- CadaLog
- The Auto Cad Magazine web and file library
- DemoNews
- Great source for information on 3D
- Digital Producer Magazine
- The premier resource for information on
Digital Video, Animation, Effects, Design,
Imaging and Technology.
- KeyFraming Magazine
3D Model Sites
- PartsWorks.com - Solidworks online parts library
- Online Mechanical Part Library for Solidworks
- Starship Modeler
- A plastic modeling resource that has
pictures and blueprints that can also be
valuable to the 3d modeler. Categories
include star trek and star wars as well as
babylon 5, 2001 and 2010, space 1999,
mecha, and real spacecraft. Don't miss it!
- Starship Schematic Database
- The best source for 5-view starship
(blueprints for Star Trek and Star Wars.
Soon to be added: Star Blazers (Yamato)
and B5!
- Thomas Models
- Thomas Models, your source for truly
authentic resin and vacu-form Trek type
model kits. Authenticity and ease of
assembly is our primary goal at Thomas
Models. We hope that you will find our
products of superior quality with special
attention to detail and craftsmanship.
3DS Models
- 3Dimension
- 70+ free models 3ds, dxf, lwo many excellent objects
- 3D Majik
- Small collection of free 3ds models most are pay for models
- 3D Models
- 6 Free - .3DS format - Book,Candles, Stero Cab, Hand ...
- 3DS and COB Models
- Football (.cob), Mech (.cob), Warrior bug
(.3ds), Futurecar (.3ds)
- Egypt3D
- 3d models, 3dtextures, 3d tutorials, 3d
plugins,3 d gallery, web3d, 3d hardware.
- Free 3D Fish Models
- Several and various fish models in .3ds
format.
- Night Crafts Lair
- 6 Free - 2 Sci-FI, 1 forklift, ...
- Nixon
- 3D Star Wars models 3ds and max formats
- Rocky3d
- A 3d website dedicated to offering quality,
useful 3d models. We offer high quality
custom modeling, laser scanning, 3d
digitizing, rapid prototyping and custom 3d
imagery and some FREE 3DS models.
- Turbo Squid
- 3DS models - some free, some for sale. Nice
little collection.
MAX, WRL, DXF, COB, OBJ, IOB
COB
- Free Poser and Bryce downloads
- RDS model page
- Most have .cob equivs available as well.
- Truespace Objects
- Most have .cob equivs available as well.
DXF
- AutoCAD
- 2D/3D DWG/DXF files
- C2 3D Models and Graphics.
- Site offers a few high quality DXF model
downloads including a modern Boing 747.
A $25 membership is required to access
the rest of the site but the sample area is
freely accessable.
- Evelio's Babylon 5 Page
- Assortment of Babylon-5 spaceship models
as images and as DXF and other 3-D
formats
- LoneWolf Design
- Free - 5 trees, 2 bushs, 1 bonzia all high Quality .DXF's
IOB
- FAWS
- 3D objects database - .IOB objects 449 Some high quality
Mixed Formats
- 3D1
- max/3ds and now POV-Ray objects - mostly bathroom fixtures/furniture
- Amature vrml stuff
- Couple of good models
- Hammer Visual Engineering
- VRML Samples
- VRML Repository
- Libraries of VRML Objects
- Zig Zag's S3D Models
- Simply 3D models. Has approximately 8
models for download
Large / Mixed Collections
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - 3D Modeling Archive
- Site contains models from the movie 2001.
The models are available in mixed format
though mainly in 3D Studio .MAX.
- 3D-ARK: 3D Art,3D Models,3D Articles,3D Tutorials,3D Links,3D Jobs
- 3D-Ave.
- Offer low cost 3d models for Poser and
custom modeling. A Free model is offered on
a monthly basis for download.
- 3D CAFE'S MODELS
- 3D CAFE'S HOMEPAGE
- 3D CAFE'S MODELS (PLANTS)
- 3D Furniture Models
- Nice collection of 3d furniture models in MAX and DXF format. Some free plus CDs
for sale.
- 3D Lapidary--Gems and Jewelry For Computer Artists
- Free 3D models of gemstones--actual
gemstone cut designs, translated into 3D
format, for use in most 3d programs. Most of
the models are in DXF format, a few in OBJ
with mapped surfaces. Over 100 models
with more added each month.
- 3d links
- Site contains many links to 3D resources
many of which are 3D model sites.
- 3D Photorealism Toolkit
- Handtools, Electronics, Odds, Ends-3ds format
- 3DSite: Model Market
- 3DSpot Models
- 3D Studio Model Shop
- 46 Free Pre-Texture Models And More Added All The Time! Also free textures
available for download.
- 3DPlants.com
- Around 70 free plant models in 3DS and DXF formats.
- 3dtrees.com - Commercial
- Amazing 3D graphics, Inc
- Many Free 3D Models
- Artist's Gallery
- Several free period household objects in 3DS format (table, bed, vases, lamps), very nice.
- Art Recon Inc.
- Commercial Greek Roman Archetecture
- A Space Library
- Several Space Craft models in various
formats including DXF.
- Auto Model Collection
- Max/3DS Excellent High Quality w/many models
- Avalon FTP for Models
- Coyne Studios
- Home of the Free Model Meshes Ring.
- Dedicated Digital
- Free models in several formats
- De Espona 3D Enclopedia
- Commercial 3D Models - us $500 - 1 CD
- Digital asteroid models
- Digital models (wavefront and POV-Ray
formats) of real asteroids derived from radar
images.
- Dreams and Magic
- 3D Meshes 1 Small selection
- Forward Design
- 3D Objects 60+ models .dxf, iob, .3ds, .cob, .pxl (pixel 3d), Mics. Objs
- The Ghastley Poser Page
- Site contains a Poser gallery, tutorials,
models and a 3D links page
- Gentry City Limits
- Free 3D Models in DXF and 3ds formats
- Great Buildings Online
- Free 3D Models of Great Buildings - 3DMF
file format
- Great Escape Studios
- StarTrek and Mech mesh models. High
quality. Various formats available.
- GreyLight : Poser
- Clothing 11 mdls -mixed 3ds
- GreyLight : Poser
- Hair 17 mdls Female hair 3ds
- GreyLight : Poser
- Headgear - hats 19 .3ds
- GreyLight : Poser
- Weapons 27 mdls mixed history 3ds dxf
- Grotto Azura Graffix
- Featuring a POV render on the splash page,
Grotto Azura is a collective of several
accomplished 3D artists who are making a
large collection of 3D models, textures and
tutorials available for free (along with a few
for-sale items).
- Innovari
- Here you will find many Bryce 3D (and Bryce
4) \"space stuff\" objects in .obj format complete with textures.
- Ion Group
- Jan Fischer's homepage
- Page about different 3-D programs
( Pov-Ray, Cinema 4D, Terragen and
SPatch) and role-playing systems like
Battletech. Some models can be
downloaded for free.
- LAVA- Archetectural Models
- LBL ITG Whole Frog Project - MRI Data Sets
- Near bottom of pate you will find ftp-links to
MRI scanned data sets of a tomato, an
orange, a pumpkin, a frog, and a rat.
- Little 3D-Studio
- 80+ models from low poloygon count fill
items to high quality models. Many different
categories to choose from ranging from
small household items to models of people.
- LWO Objects
- Free 4 obj's Soccer ball, coffee cup, Antique Steam train engine, Book
- Metro/Design
- Site contains quality 3DS Max and Rhino
Models.
- Ming 3D Toons Shop
- Model Index
- 3ds models beards, animal horns
- Moray home.page
- Moray Objects Collection
- National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
- Human full scan MRI and CT scan data
sets.
- Objects
- Meshes, models: .dxf .3ds .max , sculpture
- Part Server
- Free mechanical parts, sorted by
manufacturers. 3DS, STL, VRML, XGL
and various CAD formats.
- Poitra Visual Communications Model Catalog
- Poitra introduces its premier and historic 3d models and custom modeling service.
Extensive listing of high quality models for
commercial applications.
- Poser Models
- Poses, Textures, Morphs - All natural
- Quick3D.org's huge 3D Model Library
- A daily expanding database of 3D models
in the Quick 3D model format.
- Reebo's Meshyard
- Welcome to the Meshyard. Here you can freely share and
download meshparts for
your personal 3D
graphics projects. All
meshes are in 3DS
format, but files may also
be converted to
another format if requested.
- SAM'S 3D
- 3D Models used with Poser, Vue, Byrce etc. Most for sale but nice selection of
free models as well.
- Singularity Models by Sparky
- Mostly Space/Futuristic HIGH quality
- Space Shuttle models
- Stanford 3D Scanning Repository
- The models available are in a text based
.ply format and will need to be converted
for use on your platform. There are 4 models
available - Happy Buda, a rabbit, a drill bit,
and a detailed chinese dragon.
- Star Wars
- Mesh Objs. Also has SW's Blue Prints
- Star Wars
- The POV-Ray Collection
- Star Wars: The 3D Modelling Alliance
- Sumrallworks
- Model freebies
- Trolley Models
- Zig Zag's S3D Studio
- Has eleven Models available in .s3d,
,dxf, .3ds, and .cob 3D file formats.
Items range from good to high quality
with items like a aircompressor, window/
doors, swimming pool, park bench, and
others of interest.
3D Programs
Chemical/Molecular Modelling Programs
- BioDesigner
- Molecular modeling and visualization
software bundled with protein sequence
editor. Supports POV format output.
- Biomolecular Modelling Home Page
- Chime - PDB plugins
- Chime allows you to view PDB (protein data
base ) files from within your browser.
Versions available for both the Windows
and Mac platforms
- DDL - Drug design Laboratiry
- The site includes VEGA a program for molecular visualization, surface mapping and trajectory analysis.
- DINO: Visualizing Structural Biology
- DINO uses OpenGL for realtime visualization of biological structures, surfaces, scalar
fields and topographs. POV-Ray output is
supported
- Dynamical-systems.org
- A web based Dynamical systems laboratory where the scenes were built with Povray.
- Garlic Home Page
- Garlic, free molecular visualization program,
protein structure, DNA structure, PDB,
molecular rendering, biological
macromolecule, unix, linux, free software
download, open source software.
- Gl_render
- Convert Mol/BobScript output to POV-Ray and Raster3D format
- JOELib
- JOELib is a platform independent open
source computational chemistry package
written in Java with output support for
POV-Ray..
- MacroModel Program
- The MacroModel® program suite from
Schrödinger, Inc. allows the graphical
construction of complex chemical structures
and the application of molecular mechanics
and dynamics techniques in vacuo or in
solution.
- mm2pov
- mm2pov is a program which converts a
MacroModel data file into a Persistence of
Vision blob object. This allows you to
ray-trace some really pretty pictures of your
favourite molecules...
- Mol2Mol
- Molecule file conversion and manipulation
program, has POV-Ray support
- MOLMOL
- MOLecule analysis and MOLecule display
- Molpov
- Molecular POV-Ray modelling program
- The Molray molecular graphics web interface
- Molray is a web interface to POV-Ray for
producing high-quality molecular - graphics
images from O plot files and other sources.
- ORTEP-3 for Windows
- ORTEP-3 for Windows is chemical structure
drawing tool with POV-Ray and Raster3D
support. Reads SHELX, CIF, Sybyl MOL,
XYZ, PDB and other file formats.
- pdb2pov
- pdb2pov: a command line pdb file to pov-ray converter.
- PovChem
- Ppovit
- Ppovit is a small Perl program that reads 3D
molecular structure coordinates in Protein
Data Bank (PDB) format and generates a
scene description script that can be used as
input for the Persistence Of Vision (POV)
ray-tracer to create high quality images of
macromolecular models.
- PyMOL
- Free molecular ray-casting software. Runs
under Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows.
- Re_View
- Molecular visualization program - POV-Ray support
- StrukEd
- Editor for chemical structures (automatic generation of 3D coords) and Interfaces to several programs (e.g. qc-Programs, POV-Ray)
- Swiss-Protien data base Viewer
- Has POV-Ray support
- Tessel v 2.0
- Tesselation and molecular modelling
POV-Ray compatible
- Visual Molecular Dynamics
- Chemistry Modelling with POV-Ray support
Commercial 3D Programs
- 3D Canvas
- 3D Canvas is a freeware real-time 3D
modeling and animation tool that
incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop
approach to 3D modeling.
- Alias Wavefront
- Maya 1.0
- Artifice DesignWorkshop
- Intuitive 3D modeling, rendering and real - time walkthrough software for Windows and Macintosh.
- Ashlar Home
- Vellum 3D - transforms 2D and 3D wireframe data into surface data
- Auto Des Sys
- Form Z 3d modeller
- Autodesk - Design Software Product Section
- Makers of AutoCad, 3D Studio Max, and
Character Studio. This is their product description page.
- AutoShip
- Software for ship hull design
- Bryce 4 by:MetaCreations
- Bryce 4 is dedicated to designing, rendering
and animating breathtaking natural 3D
worlds and abstract 3D sculptures. Bryce is
a perfect application for both beginners and
advanced users because it is extremely
easy to use and it comes loaded with
libraries of presets to use in your own work.
- Cadmatic
- Cadmatic is a powerful 3D CAD/CAE/CAM
software system. Cadmatic runs in normal
Pentium level PC and saves time and money
in your plant or ship design project.
- Caligari Creator of trueSpace
- Crystal Graphics
- 3D graphics and 3D animation software for
your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations,
web pages, videos and banner ads! Try our
free demos of PowerPlugs and Crystal 3D
IMPACT! Pro.
- Hash, Inc.
- Hash Animation Master: patch-based modeler and character animation program.
- Impulse Inc.
- Organica and Imagine 1.0 modeling
packages
- InnovMetric Software - Home
- Modeling suite for transforming 3d digitizer data into color models
- J-Cad Professional Polygon Editor
- A modeller that support PovRay's RAW
format. JCad does not do ray-tracing but
allows for very easy creation of 3D models.
- MCnurbs Creator 2.0
- MCnurbs Creator 2.0 is a series of tools for
creating smooth looking free form 3D
surfaces in Diehl Graphsoft's VectorWorks 8
and MiniCad 7. It can for example be used
for creating terrain models, tents, hypars,
complex roofs and walls, furniture,
mechanical components, industrial design,
etc. For Mac and Windows.
- Millit - Rapid Prototyping
- Rapid Prototyping of real 3D objects from
your 3D graphics files.
- MultiGen-Paradigm Home Page
- Real time 3d modeling applications
- NewTek - Lightwave
- One of the more respected high end 3D modelling programs on the market
- Nova Design, Inc.
- Aladdin 4D 5.0 - Nice mod-end rendering package
- PhotoModeler Home
- EOS Systems Photomodeler Pro 3.0 - creates models from photos
- Raindrop Geomagic, Inc.
- Creators of Decimator and Wrap 3D Modeling Tools
- Robert McNeel & Associates
- Rhino - NURBS modeling tool
- SGI
- Silicon Graphics web site
- Side Effects Software
- Side Effects Software Houdini 2.5 high end animation and visual effects solution
- Silicon Dream Ltd - Genesis 3D editor
- Genesis is a fully functional, realtime 3D editor for windows. It has many unique features not found on other editors and is very intuitive to use. 3D objects can be loaded, edited, viewed and saved again to disk while enjoying the luxury of realtime rendering. It also has a very powerful programming toolkit for those who like to get their feet wet. The toolkit allows 3D applications or plug-in tools for the editor to be written.
- Softimage Inc.
- Softimage - Very highend animation/visual effects software
- Solid Thinking
- Full NURBS-based 3D modeling and rendering environment with Construction Tree. Support of all industry standard rendering techniques (scan-line, raytracing, radiosity).
- Strata inc.
- Makers of Strata StudioPro
- Template Graphics Software
- Amapi 3D - superb modeling tool
- Touch-3D
- Touch3D is program for 3D modeling and
unfolding / unwrapping 3D models into flat
2D patterns. It can for example be used for
concept design, industrial design, quick
prototyping, mock-ups, scale models, marine
design, physical renderings, production
preparation, etc. For the Mac platform
- VariCAD
- A compact 3D/2D mechanical CAD package.
- VisualMarker
- VisualMarker - Inexpensive motion capture software. Up to 4 simple webcams and no special rooms. Takes 2D images and allows
you to create 3D models. 3DS output
support.
Conversion Utilities
- 3D Exploration - 3D viewer
- 3D Exploration is easy-to-use viewer for
Windows 95, 98 and NT with Explorer-like
interface and Open GL hardware
accelerator support. It allows you to browse
many popular 3D file formats - 3D Studio,
LightWave, Caligari, Direct X, AutoCAD
and many other, plus common 2D file types.
$30 shareware
- 3DS2POV V1.80
- 3DS2POV V1.80 - This free program can
convert your binary 3D Studio 3DS file in
POV 1.0, POV 2.0 including basic material
parameters (color, ambient, diffuse,
reflection, transparency) and smoothing. It
also supports the output of RAW (useful for
POVLAB), Vivid and Polyray. Supports
animation ! By Steve Anger
- 3DWin HomePage
- Likely the most versitle shareware 3D
conversion utility that you will find anywhere.
It is actively maintained and developed and
has support for most major 3D file formats.
It also include direct support for POV-Ray
and Moray plus the author has plug-ins
available for Moray for direct import
capabilitites.
- AccuTrans 3D - Home
- AccuTrans 3D provides accurate translation
of 3D geometry between the file formats
used by many popular modeling programs.
Positional and rotational information for the
3D meshes is maintained. Also many
material attributes, such as color, index of
refraction, reflection, specularity
and Phong shading, are transferred
between the files. Textures are not currently
supported. The program has been
enhanced with additional features to make it
more than just a 3D file conversion program.
Has POV-Ray support.
- asc2tga and Smooth
- When rendering landscapes from maps with
POV-Ray you often have an elevation matrix
stored as an ASCII matrix. asc2tga converts
such a file into a POV readable heightfield
in TGA format. Smooth can magnify this
heightfield using bicubic interpolation.
- Artlandia 1.5
- Extends the powerful Mathematica
language and lets you write simple
programs that produce ornaments, patterns
and designs for industrial applications or
your mathematical recreations.
- AutoCAD2POV
- AutoCAD2POV 3.0a. This is a *much* more solid package than Version 1. It is almost a
total rewrite, with tons of improvements, and
many objects added (converts AutoCAD
colors). Win95+.
- Blender Python Conversion Scripts
- Python scripts for converting Blender
models to other formats including POV-Ray.
- C2HTML
- C2HTML - Converts sourcecodes (e.g. C,
C++, POVray) to HTML i,cl. syntax
highlighting.
- Cadlink
- CADLINK provides CAD / CAM translator-converter and 3D CAD / CAM viewer for CATIA, CADDS, AUTOCAD, RHINO3D, PRO/E, SOLIDWORKS, SOLID EDGE, IDEAS, UNIGRAPHICS, IGES, DXF, STEP, VRML.
- Code to HTML converter
- Now including povray source. Process source code to HTML with colored syntax for linux.
- Conversion Tools
- Site contains a large number of command
line conversion utilities most with source
code available.
- Cross Roads 3D
- Another free POV-Ray compatible 3D conversion program. It offers support for
multiple 3D file formats and can export
directly to POV-Ray's file format. Another
utility called wcvt2pov is also available at
this site.
- dxf2pov and dxf2wrl
- dxf2rad - Convert Geometry from DXF to RADIANCE
- Dxf2rad is a command line utility for
translating geometry data from the DXF file
format into the format understood by the
RADIANCE lighting simulation package.
Dxf2rad shares a lot of code with Radout,
an Autocad extension to export geometry
directly from within a drawing. It was written
to support the architectural lighting design
software package Rayfront, which offers
complete control over all parameters of
RADIANCE simulations.
- Eagle 3D
- Programm converts Eagle-Layout-File (www.cadsoft.de) to a POVRay-Scene.
- EPS2Pov
- EPS2POV is an Hypercard stack (need
Hypercard Player) for Macintosh users that
allow you to use eps files to create POV-Ray
objects like prisms, lathes, sors or polygons
- GLView v4.0
- GLView is a standalone VRML 1.0/2.0
Browser and 3D File Viewer for Windows
NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98.
- IDtoPOV
- File conversion utility will convert INFINI-D file to POV-Ray file
- Inventor 2.0 / VRML 1.0 Converters
- LDRAW2LWS 1.0
- This tool can convert Lego bricks
(LDraw-Object Files (*.dat)) into Lightwave
Objects (*.lwo) and Lightwave Scenes
(*.lws) and many more.
- Lillysoft 8
- A program that runs under both Windows
and Mac to convert RIB to POV files.
- Maple2Pov converter Style-Povdis
- Mathmatica2Pov
- Ray Tracing and Graphics Extensions > Mathmatica2Pov conversion
- mm2pov
- mm2pov is a program which converts a MacroModel data file into a Persistence of Vision blob object. This allows you to ray-trace some really pretty pictures of your favourite molecules...
- Mrawpov Converter
- Converts RAW to POV smooth triangle.
- OBJuvPOV
- OBJuvPOV - Poser4 .OBJ to POV-Ray
converter (early beta). This program offers
conversion from .obj to .pov files and
allows for maintaining texture coordinates
through use of UV mapping. This feature
requires Nathan Kopp's UVPov patched
version of POV-Ray.
- PolyTrans
- Accurate, High Quality 3D Model Translation Software
- POV-Ray.M
- POVRAY.m is a Mathematica program
(available as source text) that converts
Mathematica 3D graphics objects to
POV-Ray input.
- Pose2POV
- DOS command-line utility with source for
converting the OBJ mesh and MTL texture
files exported by Poser 3 and 4 to POV-Ray
format, with complete texturing. Has options
for exporting UV texture-mapping info to
UV-POV or the SuperPatch.
- PoseRay page by FlyerX
- Here you can download the utility PoseRay
that converts Wavefront OBJ files into
POV-Ray/MegaPOV code and Moray UDO
models.
- Pro/ENGINEER And PovRay
- Delphi and Tcl/Tk programs for converting
parts and multilevel assemblies from
Pro/ENGINEER (professional 3D CAD) to
PovRay include files.
- Radout
- Autocad to RADIANCE geometry export tool
Radout is now avaliable in version 3.9.7 for
Autocad 2000.
- rib2pov
- A pearl script for converting RIB renderman
files to POV-Ray files.
- SCALE Calculator
- Scale calc is a Free ware calculator
intended to be used by Kit Builders.
It provide calculations to the most used
scales as well as ft to meters and meters to
ft conversions. 3D enthusiasts might find
it useful for making accurate scaled down
versions of real objects.
- SLP2POV2
- SLP2POV -A utility to onvert
Pro/ENGINEER render (.slp) files to
POV-Ray format (.inc)
- stl2pov 1.0
- Converts from STL to POV-Ray.
- ThreeDS
- ThreeDS is a Python module for loading and
displaying 3D models in the 3DStudio Max
3DS format. It comes with view3DS, a
simple model viewer written in Python.
- VRML2POV
- A VRML to POV-Ray conversion program
- WinTopo Raster to Vector Conversion
Fonts and Font Utilities
- ELEFONT
- 3D extruded Text from TTF fonts.Output
to POV-Ray and .dxf
- Gcode95, TTFtoDXF
- TTFtoDXF a utility to convert from a single
character to a paragraph of text in any True
Type font, to a Dxf file which can then be
manipulated in Gcode or Autocad. Handy
for sign making or engraving.
- SoftText for POV-Ray
- TTConverter 1.5
- TTConverter converts Windows truetype fonts to Mac and vice versa. It’s the other way around that you’ll find useful in POV: you need to convert your Truetype fonts to text format before POV can use them.
- Xara3D
- Font software for 3D web graphics
Fonts
- 1FONTS
- We have over 900 cool free fonts to choose
from. All of the fonts are shown in color
previews with the font name and the font's
file size. The fonts were taken from all
different sources. All of the fonts are saved
as .zip files.
- -=1001=- Free Fonts
- Abstract Original Free Fonts ding bats font
art free fontz for download this page is
updated every 3-4 days+database (archive )
- 1001 Free Fonts
- Download Free Fonts and Dingbats. Huge
Collection of Freeware and Shareware Fonts
und Schriftarten.
- Chankstore
- Fonts designed by Chank Diesel and
Charles Anderson with downloadable
fee fonts every week.
- DINC
- dincTYPE - unique fonts for Macintosh and
PC. Including some free fonts.
- Flat Earth
- A collection of fantasy and medieval fonts.
Fantasy, medieval, and rune fonts in TTF
format, ready for download.
- Font Fairy Free Fonts
- Welcome to the Font Fairy site, home of
guilt-free typographic treasures! These are
not just any fonts, mind you, but high quality
commercial ones. In the real world they
would set you back over a thousand dollars
if you were to buy them all but here they are
free.
- Font Freak
- Free true type fonts and dingbats for both
PC and Mac
- The FontSite
- FontSite - a monthly magazine dedicated to
typography and design, offering free fonts,
fonts for sale, feature articles and an
extensive book listing on typography and
design.
- Free Font downloads
- TrueType core fonts for the Web from
MicroSoft
- Free fonts at fontastic!
- Surely not a cure from font addiction, but
this is your one-stop archive to hundreds of
pc fonts. Choose from many categories; all
fonts pictured; unique designs.
- High-Logic's Font Creator
- Create, design, edit and modify True Type
Font Files. Shareware $35.
- Phil's Fonts
- Phil's Fonts, Inc. - type and graphic software
resource, featuring font showings, contests,
free fonts, web specials, type and graphic
links, and more.
- Rotodesign
- Free Fonts
- Roxanne's free Graphics
- Free graphics, fonts, and Photoshop
tutorials.
- Sassy Fonts
- Over 100 free fonts to download.
- .TTF
- Original free TTF fonts
- Windows fonts for Macintosh
Height Field Modelling Programs and Utilities
- 3DEM
- Terrain Visualization and Flyby animation
- asc2tga and Smooth
- When rendering landscapes from maps with
POV-Ray you often have an elevation matrix
stored as an ASCII matrix. asc2tga converts
such a file into a POV readable heightfield
in TGA format. Smooth can magnify this
heightfield using bicubic interpolation.
- Digital Terrain Modeling and Mapping Digital Elevation Model
- Generate 3D Digital Terrain Models and
Digital Terrain Maps using free digital
elevation model (DEM) data from the USGS,
NIMA, ASTER and other sources. Learn to
render them using POV-Ray, MicroDem,
Terragen, 3DEM, Global Mapper, Arc
Explorer, Multispec and other free or low
cost applications. Convert data using
GEOTIFF, BANDPASS, DEM2TGA7,
DEM2POV2, MDEM2DEM, SDTS2DEM
and other converters offered for free
download.
- Doug Fortune's Digital Elevation of the World
- EarthScape Heightfield Editor
- A simple but powerful utility for editing .tga
files used with POV-Ray(tm) heightfields.
For use on Windows95/98 systems.
- Fractal World Explorer
- nbos software's fractal 3d relief map
generator for windows.
- GenesisII
- HLA
- Based on John Beale's Hf-Lab, HLA creates
'fractal forgery' landscape/skyscape/map
height fields (Reference: The Science of
Fractal Images, Peitgen, Saupe eds.) mainly
for use with PovRay ray tracing software.
Outputs TGA, GIF, POT, MAT, PGM, and
OCT formats.
- HLA, a height field generator for DOS
- Based on/around John Beale's Hf-Lab, HLA
creates 'fractal forgery' landscape /
skyscape/map "height fields" (Reference:
The Science of Fractal Images, Peitgen,
Saupe eds.) mainly for use with POV-Ray
ray tracing software. Outputs TGA, GIF,
PNG, POT, MAT, PGM, and OCT formats.
- John Beale
- Height Fields Gforge and HF Lab programs
- Landscape & Tree
- Height Fields & Terrain modeler links
- Landscape-Maker v2.1
- Image to HF software output to .COB file format by:RYU Software
- Landscape Visualization by Geomantics
- We specialize in the development and use
of landscape visualization and geographical
software, with particular emphasis on its
application in Geographical Information
Systems (GIS), Mapping, Geography,
Geology, Multimedia, 3D simulation,
Professional Graphics, Education and
Outdoor pursuits.
- LEVELLER
- Comprehensive and Very Capable Height
Field Modelling Environment. Comes
highly recommended.
- MacDEM
- MacDEM, by Jerry Farm, is an application
for working with USGS DEM files and can
convert them into POV-Ray format.
MacDEM reads 1:250K and 7.5 minute
DEMS in ASCII and SDTS format, and can
also merge DEM files together.
- MacDEM2POV 1.2
- DEM files (topographic data files) can be
converted to POV-Ray with this simple Mac
utility, supplied by Russell Towle:
MacDEM2POV 1.2, converts 7.5 minute
U.S.G.S. quadrangles to 24-bit Targa files,
for use in the POV-Ray height_field function.
It is a quick Mac port of a UNIX/DOS utility
and is under active development. This is a
direct download only - no site available.
- Mapper
- Mapper is a visualization tool written to work
with GIS data found on the internet. It can
combine data from different sources and in
varying formats to a single view. It is not an
image processing tool but rather builds a
3dimensional model of the earth.
- Microdem
- Displays and merges digital elevation models and satellite imagery
- Pavan Virtual Reality
- Kit for Map Info GIS and VR Panoramas
- POVSCAPE
- A quick Little Height Field Editing Utility for
POV-Ray, It Includes INC file creation for
"Trees" that you can have on your
heightfields. Only 160k zipped, it includes C
source, it is freeware.
- Terrain Forge
- Terraform Home Page
- Terraform is an open source interactive
height field generation and manipulation
program, giving you the ability to generate
random terrain and transform it. Terraform
runs under Linux and other UNIX systems
under the X11 Windowing system. It uses
the Gtk+ widget set and thus has a (more or
less) consistent graphical user interface
which doesn't require use of the command
line.
- Terragen
- Terragen is a scenery generator being
developed for Windows 95, 98 and NT.
At this stage of its development, Terragen is
free for personal non-commercial use.
- TerrainMan v2.01
- Mac Height Field editor with .pict support
- STDS2POV.EXE
- STDS geographical data file conversion program -Outputs to .TGA for height fields
- Terrain Maker Home Page
- Landscape generator/editor for gif
heightfields used by POV. It has a midpoint
algorythm fractal landscape generator and
a suite of tools for editing landscapes.
Includes a colormap editor. Shareware- five
bucks.
- TruFlite's 3D
- Terrain and Visualzation Software
- Vis5D
- Multi demensional data set viewer similar to that used in weather forecasting
- VisAD Home Page
- VisAD provides access to data from GVAR
and GOES (U.S.), GMS (Japanese) and
Meteosat (European) weather satellites. This
links VisAD's CoordinateSystem mechanism
with McIDAS satellite navigation to
geolocate the images so that they can be
overlaid with data from numerical models
and other sources
- Wave Creator
- A small program to generate simulated liquid surfaces as3D height fields for POV and Moray.
- WDem2Tga
- Converts .DEM elevat Maps to 8/16 bit Images for Height Field Work
- Wilber
- It allows an individual to play with terrain
data (height fields). It can import data from
and export data to many popular file formats.
In addition, it allows the data to be modified
wth a number of image processing
operations as well as height field painting
tools.
- World Machine Beta Release
- World Machine is a terrain heightfield
generator that takes a slightly different
approach than the norm. While still in beta
the it looks very promising.
LSystems
- FLEA - Fractal Life Engine Gallery
- Ruby LPARSER rewrite; new features with
POV-Ray export.
- LPARSER
- L-systems Software Resources list
- LinSys3d
- LSystems 3d editor with POV-Ray export.
- RayTraced Evolution
Mesh Utilities
- ELASTICITY2
- Elcovision 10
- Generate highly accurate 3D models from
photographs. ELCOVISION 10 is the most
accurate and easiest to use close range
photogrammetry software on the market.
- Fair Surface Design
- This is an uncompiled mesh smoothing program. See site for details.
- Mesh Generation: Software
- This is a list of public domain and
commercial mesh generation programs
with some details of thier abilities.
- MilkShape 3D 1.1.0
- Shareware mesh modeller that exports to POV-Ray.
- Photo Modeller
- Commercial 2d to 3d Modelling program. Converts 2D images into 3D models.
- Povray Object Processing Perl Library
- This simple library of perl modules giving
objects to represent points, vectors and
larger objects. At the moment it only
understands triangles and it's main use
is to smooth a mesh of triangles. It also
allows for some mesh deformation. Requires
you to have PERL installed to run.
- ProgMesh - Home Page
- ProgMesh is a 3D polygon mesh
simplification program which enables you to
reduce the number of polygons in your
objects without a visible loss of quality.
Input format supported is .3ds. Program runs
under Windows 95/98. Freeware !
- sMesh home page
- Be sure to check out the utilities on this page
- Triangles, a triangle mesh making utility
- Triangles is a free DOS program for
constructing triangle meshes, especially for
POV-Ray (Output to RAW, POV mesh, and
PCM1)
- WannaBe
- WannaBe is a Texturemapping Polygon
(trimesh) editor for the Macintosh PPC. It
reads and writes dmmf, 3DMF, and TMDL.
- Wings 3d
- Open-source polygon mesh modeller inspired by Nendo. Has an export plugin that
will work with POV-Ray v3.5
Misc. POV-Ray Utilities
- Builder Home Page
- A collection of shareware and freeware
programs that build things. Castle, Galaxy,
Nation, and World Builder are available.
Most have support for POV-Ray output.
- Colograms - Create Stereoscopic Printed Images
- Create spectacular 3D images with your bubble jet printer! Written with POV-Ray
in mind.
- df3Maker & df3Viewer
- A little program for windows that will convert