Open Source Linux 3D Rendering Software

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.

Equalizer is the standard middleware to create parallel OpenGL-based applications. Please visit https://github.com/Eyescale for current development information.

UPDATE: Chromium is no longer updated or maintained.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.

A real-time packet sniffer / analyzer for Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC).

Fract is a free, Open-source PC Benchmark based on realtime software rendering. It is designed to provide 100% unbiased results that really correspond to the raw performance of your CPU and system bus.

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

The first 3D game engine built in C# for .NET, predecessor to the Visual3D Game Engine (https://www.poweraccess.net/visual3d-game-engine), an All-in-One Game Development Tool for Next-Gen 3D Games, MMOs, Simulations and Virtual Worlds powered by Microsoft XNA.

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

A Verilog design for a simple ASIC that executes the Ray Tracing Algorithm.

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...).

mCode is designed to be a dynamic 3d platform for simulation and visualization, with a focus on visual networking.

Powerful platform for creating networked multiplayer 3D games. The system includes specifications for a client engine and 2 protocols. Demo apps: mud/moo proxy, tetris. Currently uses OpenGL, VRML, java, tcl. Client/server architecture for security.

BORG - BORG Open Rendering GUI - is a network rendering system developed by TAUTOLOGIX for RenderMan compliant renderer. BORG is platform independent and used to distribute rendering jobs. It can also be used as a GUI for the supported renderers.

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

Clay3D is a complete, extensible, and feature rich suite of network agnostic, scalable applications for the production of computer generated imagery and visual effects. Please see homepage for more information.

Engrane3D is a fully working LiveCD OS powered by Slackware/Slax with a personalized set of tools to set, configure clusters, tools for hosting serving, a built-in parallel 3D renderer and a nice set of compilers and libs (SDL,MPI, Mesa).

FlowVR is an open source middleware tailored for high performance in situ data processing and analytics running on large parallel machines

An extensible framework for distributed computing on P2P grids. We support peaceful free and open research and build an internet supercomputer. We render movies, solve Eternity puzzles, predict climate and improve a ~30 GHz cluster of clients.

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

Gphoton is a simple 3d modeler and ray tracer. If you're looking for the best 3d modeler or best ray tracer, this isn't it. If you want to easily make some simple 3D primitives and see multiple reflections or dink with ray trace code, you might find this fun, read on. In 2nd grade we had a sub who taught us to draw 2pt perspective - life was never the same. My dad's drafting book taught that and 3pt persp. In art I was awed by Durer and the mirror in Van Eyke's Wedding. In the 70s-80s I was trying to do 3D on early computers - big BW pixels! By late 80s I saw ray tracing and had to write my own. I wrote the 1st ver while taking vector calculus and CAD programming classes c. '92. I was intrigued not only by the beauty of the math but also ray tracing curved metals. This is actually the 2nd ver, ported from MFC to gnome (with enhancements like optional GL) c. '00 with some help from David. Apr'17: Updated to compile on recent Ubuntu/Debian - still runs, even on a pi!

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

IMPFarm is a renderfarm for the POV-Ray raytracer. All communication is via http with XML documents. Servers and clients are cross platform. Management and reporting is done using web pages.

This will become a graphic modeling and rendering tool written in JAVA. We will support an xml-style input file format for graphical scenes. The rendering will be possible in openGL (preview) as well as by (distributed and stochastic) Raytracing.