Open Source C 3D Rendering Software for Linux

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.

OpenGLChecker is a fast and smooth program that retrieves relevant information about your OpenGL implementation. It can also test your computer's performance with fully scripted benchmarks. This allows you to write your own benchmark scripts for testing your OpenGL performance.

UPDATE: Chromium is no longer updated or maintained.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.

GXSM -- Gnome X Scanning Microscopy: A multi-channel image and vector-probe data acquisition and visualization system designed for SPM techniques (STM,AFM..), but also SPA-LEED/LEED/LEEM data analysis. A plug-in interface allows any user add-on data-processing and special hardware and instrument support. Latest: NC-AFM and related explorative methods as SQDM can be configured. High-Speed external PAC-PLL hardware option with digital DSP link. Based on several hardware options it supports a commercially available DSP hardware and provided also Open Source Code for all the low level signal processing tasks and instrument controls in a most flexible and adaptable manner. All latest software is available via SVN only or Live Demo/Install CD: http://www.ventiotec.de/linux/GXSM-Linux.iso

Open Source Remote Sensing OSSIM project, pronounced "awesome", will leverage existing algorithms/tools/packages from the open source community in construction of the ultimate Remote Sensing/Image Processing/GIS package. osgPlanet extends OSSIM and Op

SoftGenLock provides software genlock and quad buffer page flipped stereo, without requiring specific hardware or graphics card driver source code.

several vaguely related projects worked on by me: a 3d engine with a javascript-like scripting language (pdsys); an older scheme dialect (vmsys); ... (2009-04-28: I have been gone for years, may try to put up some newer stuff...).

BURP aims to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations over the Internet using CPU idle time.

A small SDL application using OpenGL to test the compatability of Shader Model 3 on nVidia GTX 470

A high performance visualization tool for stars and particles able to run on Beowulfs. Rendering step is implemented separately and optimized for SSE, compatible with OpenGL. Navigation mechanism with quaternions. Ten color maps, sobel contour detect

This is a 3dfx gl driver project with direct gl software to hardware rendering within the driver, supporting voodoo1/rush/2/banshee/3/4/5 in 1 driver. It is intended to be a replacement for driver/gl combinations currently available.

MVIP is the multicast VRML interchange protocol. This protocol allows users to participate in shared virtual worlds. The protocol uses the services of RTP and accesses VRML through EAI.

Openmark will be a Open Source benchmark that will have 32/64 bit options for video rendering tests on X11 as well as HD speed, FSB, etc benchmarks. Also many tools like: temp monitor, speed control, etc.

POV-Ray raytracing in a parallel environment.

The Parallel Compositing library enables developers to write scalable 3D graphics applications. The library does sort-last compositing, and works on both clusters and SMP machines. The API aims to be the MPI of parallel compositing.

glomp is an open source multipipe OpenGL library. Its intent is to automatically distribute 3D graphics computations over multiple graphics card on the same machine.

nemosomen is a framework for designing open source, network based, multimedia (video/openGL/sound/MIDI) realtime toys a suite of tools for distributed development, processing of media. It tries to shift most of the working process in realtime processes.