Last update: 13 April 1998

# Rendering Packages

### Rayshade

  Rayshade User's Guide [Australia]
  Rayshade Images Archive [Australia]
  Notes on Rayshade [Australia]
  Mirror of various Rayshade FTP sites (wuarchive) [U.S.A.]
  FTP site (Princeton) [U.S.A.]
  Standard images with and without inlined icons [U.S.A.]
  More Documentation... [U.S.A.]
  User's Guide [U.S.A.]
  The Rayshade Home Page (New Address) [U.S.A.]

### POV-Ray

  POV home page utilities, pictures, tutorials (utilitaires et plugins POV) [FRANCE]
  TreeDesigner, Win32 modeller for creating trees/plants, exports to POV and Moray (POVRay, Moray) [Sweden]
  The Pov-Ray Nexus [US]
  Form (Lparser with preview) [UK]
  Distributed POVRay scripts written in Perl. (There is a script which will utilize both CPU's in a dual CPU machine, and two more scripts which work together to function like PVMPovray to make use of other machines on a network. Ne ther of these require any changes to be made to the POVRay source.) [USA]
  Rhino 3d NURBS based modellor (Now exports to POV and UDO!) [USA]
  POV-Ray Tips, Tricks, and Techniques has 50 ways to improve your raytracings. [USA]
  POV-Ray Tips, Tricks, and Techniques has 50 ways to improve your raytracings. [USA]
  The PovRay Links (Growing collection of PovRay links and utils.) [USA]
  Vue d'Esprit now exports to POV ! (Generate superb landscapes and import them into POV...) [US]
  Modeller for PoV-Ray (New and FREE) [Germany]
  Free modeller for PoV-Ray (New) [Germany]
  VirtualWorlds for OS/2 POVRay modeller for OS/2 (POVRay) [USA]
  http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Ray.Tracing (POVRay) [Switzerland]
  The POVLAB modeller support site (3D modeller) [France]
  The Official Moray Homepage. (New URL!) [USA]
  POV-Ray en Castellano [Spain]
  Include file animation tool for POV-Ray Dave G's Animation System [Canada]
  Gautam N. Lad's POV-Ray Page (Many POV-Ray links!) [Canada]
  ForeSpace - PoV-modeller for OS/2, look at ForeSpace's site (ForeSpace modeller) [Australia]
  The Home Page for 3dto3d and pov2mdl. (Tools for Moray 2.0) [Germany]
  The Official Moray Home Page. [USA]
  The POVLAB modeller support site (3D modeller) [France]
  POV-Ray Texture of the Week (An origional texture for POV-Ray each week) [Australia]
  PVMPOV is a robust, parallel version of POV-Ray 2.2 using PVM. [Canada]
  Breeze Designer 2.0 modeller for POV-Ray (with VRML & RenderMAN export) [USA]
  Rolands POV Pages (POVRAY 3.0 Whats new) [Belgium]
  POV-Ray CD-ROM now on-line. (POV-Ray's official site) [U.S.A.]
  POV-Ray manual HTMLised (78 example images with source!) []
  POV-Ray Texture Of The Week (a new texture for Pov-Ray every week) [Australia]
  English mirror of FTP.POVRAY.ORG (POVRay) [U.K.]
  POVAFX 1.0, POV-Ray with (simple) atmospheric FX (POV-Ray) [USA]
  An improvement of POV-Ray 2.2 to work in parallel. POV-Pvm. Fast!!!. (POV-Ray now works in parallel!!!) [Finland]
  POV3-WaTCH! Pov 3.0 is coming..here is your source of pre-release info! (POVRay) [USA]
  Official European Mirror [U.K.]
  The official POV-Ray Home Page. [USA]
  The Official PovZine [[U.S.A]]
  Jeff Hauswirth's PoVSB Windows Modeler. [United States]
  The Other POV-Ray Home Page (Macintosh) [Netherlands]
  An animation tool (D/Animator) [U.S.A.]
  Mirror of various POV-Ray FTP sites (wuarchive) [U.S.A.]
  Mirror of the FTP site (Contains extra files) [Germany]
  Official FTP site (possibly down) [Aus]
  The FTP archive of all things POVable. [Canada]
  POV Ray manual in html form [U.S.A.]
  The POV Ray Home Pages (possibly down) [U.S.A.]
  The Official POV Ray FTP site (also cdrom.com mirror) [U.S.A.]

### Radiance

  Architecture Uses (Radiosity rendered buildings) [N.Z.]
  Radiance WWW Service (Also a parallel implementation) [U.S.A.]
  Radiance WWW Server [Swiss]

### RTrace

  Mirror of various RTrace FTP sites (wuarchive) [U.S.A.]
  RTrace's SCN input format [U.S.A.]
  A script file converter (Scn2Sff) and other tools [Portugal]
  Various images... Normal, Tests, Molecular, Medical and Stereo. [Portugal]
  Documentation and user guide [Portugal]
  Home Directory for RTrace (Includes binaries for most platforms) [Portugal]

### Substance Project

  The FTP site for the project [U.S.A.]
  Mail the project... [U.S.A.]

### Others

  Animation Factory / Mirage 3D Raytracer (Information on a Raytracer which is able to handle Lights of any shape with correct shadows/shading and Caustics...) [Germany]
  Lasr - lars' adaptive stochastic ray tracer. [Sweden]
  RayChase, A small recursive random raytracer wich generates nice pictures all by itself ! [usa]
  DragonRay is a ray tracer currently being developed that is similar to POV. (Also has parallel platform support.) [USA]
  The RAY++ Homepage (modular raytracer, C++) [Germany]
  Vue d'Esprit now animates and exports to POV ! (Free animation module to animate fantastic fractal landscapes. Must be seen !) [US]
  Imago by Axar Technologies (Powerful, inexpensive, 3d graphics software) [Canada]
  CIDLib C++ Class Libraries Frameworks for NT and VC++ (w/ OO fractal and ray tracing engines) [USA]
  The Vera Raytracer Project. (realistic and non-realistic rendering) [Norway]
  Behemot Graphic Editor (New name for older RT Editor) [Italy]
  Java, web page interactive Quadric Surface Imaging Raytracer (with multicoordinate system GUI) [USA]
  lightwave [Russia]
  Lightwave 3D (Lightwave 3D) [U.S.]
  Vue d'Esprit (This fantastic landscape generator is now available in English. Take a look at those pictures, and/or download a demo version) [USA]
  Fractal Designs Ray Dream Studio (Win/mac modeling/rendering package) [USA]
  The most bang for the buck IMAGINE from Impulse, Inc (Demos, Support, Free stuff) [USA]
  Rendering/Modeling for the PC and MAC Ray Dream Studio (DXF input/output, VRML support) [USA]
  Vue d'Esprit homepage (Virtual landscape generator) [USA]
  Numerical Design - rPlus (Commercial ray-tracing and radiosity rendering toolkit) [U.S.A.]
  The Rendezvous is a new page that should grow fast to Help where I can. (Travel, Games, Clubs,) [USA]
  FUN, INFORMATIVE, PROFITABLE [USA]
  The HELIOS Radiosity Renderer (C++ source included) [Canada]
  Reflector (Magzine from the REFLECTIONS-User Club (in german)) [Germoney]
  Home of Impulse Inc. Makers of Imagine 3D (Free Stuff Too!) [USA]
  The LUXART & LUMINANCE Home Page (written in French) [France]
  RayFont, an experimental raytracer for MS-Windows 95/NT. Multi-threaded, distributed, etc. (Under development.) [USA]
  William's Ray Tracer-- beta test my new ray-tracer! (Primitive ray-tracer) [USA]
  LightWorks Rendering Toolkit (Commercial ray-tracing and radiosity rendering toolkit) [USA]
  PiRT home page [Belgium]
  NeoN Graphix Demo (Others) [U.S.A.]
  Asymetrix Web 3D (Commercial, but inexpensive) [U.S.A.]
  VORT ray tracer home page (VORT ray tracer and images) [Australia]
  3D things Macintosh Animation and 3D Modeling on the Mac (Book & Other Wisdom) [USA]
  The RayTracing Kernel GX/GENERIC (HyperOctree/BSP/ABVH in C++) [Germany]
  Visit the RayLab home-page! (New freeware tracer) [Sweden]
  RayStorm Home Page (Fast octree based raytracer) [Germany]
  RT raytracing Home Page . (New site for the freeware program) [Italy]
  Specular Infini-D (a great 3D package!) [USA]
  The MakeMPEG for 3DS page [Australia]
  GOOD (a highly extensible (C++)framework for interactive 3D graphics) [Germany]
  (The Terraformers' Guild-KPT Bryce info & graphics) [Canada]
  RT raytracing Home Page . (new) [Italy]
  Vector Reality for Windows 95/NT/3.1 [U.S.A]
  John Stone's Parallel Raytracing Software (JPG, MPEG, Docs etc) [U.S.A.]
  Animation Master (Hash inc Home Page) [U.S.A.]
  Truespace (MS Windows Raytracer) [U.S.A.]
  PolyRay documentation; HTML+ format; 180Kb (PolyRay) [Germany]
  BMRT Home Page (RenderMan-compliant raytracing/radiosity) [U.S.A.]
  Illumen 3D Pages (Commercial) [U.S.A.]
  The MTV raytracer: Documentation, Source Code and Sample Scripts [U.K.]
  GhostRay's Home Page (Sources, Pictures et al.) [U.K.]
  Ray23c Home Page (Pictures, MPEGs) [Slovenia]
  XRAY Home Page [Germany]
  Franck Diard's Photon4D ray tracer [France]
  Alias Sketch! (Commercial) [U.S.A.]
  The BMRT ray tracer (renders RenderMan files; also Radiosity) [U.S.A.]
  The Vivid ray-tracer [U.S.A.]
  The RT ray tracer [U.S.A.]
  Bernard Kwok's Radiosity program (Uses RTrace as a postprocessor) [Portugal]

### bCAD

  Rob Coldwell's bCAD Appreciation Page (Try bCAD for yourself!) [UK]
  bCAD Official home page. (Updated weekly) [Russia]
  The bCAD site (bCAD ) [US]

### Real 3D

  Real 3D Homepage (New Powerful Package) [USA]
  Real 3D Tutorials and RPL Info [Finland]
  REAL 3D in Europe (Online tutorials and more!) [UK]
  Real 3D Homepage (New Powerful Package) [USA]

### Zen Grafik 3D Modeler

  Download Demo 3.1 (zendemo.zip 1.2MB) [br]
  Download your demo copy now! (zendemo.exe 1.2 MB) [Brasil]
  New Solid Modeler and Renderer for Win95 (Easy 3D Solid Modeling and Rendering) [Brasil]
  the PortRAY Ray-tracer page (LINUX Ray-Tracer) [U.K.]
  Laser 2.0 Raytracer in Java (Free) [USA]
  http://www.ndl.com (Professional Ray Tracing Toolkit) [USA]

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