3D Engines List Stereo rendering This list contains 20 stereo rendering engines.

02.02.2000 OpenGL

06.09.1995

OpenGLŪ is a software interface for applications to generate interactive 2D and 3D computer graphics. OpenGL is designed to be independent of operating system, window system, and hardware operations, and it is supported by many vendors. OpenGL is available on PCs, Macintosh and workstations.
OpenGL provides a wide range of graphics functions: from rendering a simple geometric point, line, or filled polygon, to texture mapping NURBS curved surfaces.

• Geometric primitives (points, lines, and polygons)
• Raster primitives (bitmaps and pixel rectangles)
• RGBA or color index mode
• Display list or immediate mode
• Viewing and modeling transformations
• Hidden Surface Removal (depth buffer)
• Alpha Blending (transparency)
• Antialiasing
• Texture Mapping
• Atmospheric Effects (fog, smoke, and haze)
• Polynomial Evaluators (to support Non-uniform rational B-splines)
• Pixel Operations (storing, transforming, mapping, zooming)
• Accumulation Buffer
• Stencil Planes
• Feedback, Selection, and Picking
• OpenSource

The OpenGL functions described are provided on every OpenGL implementation to make applications written with OpenGL easily portable between platforms. All licensed OpenGL implementations are required to pass the Conformance Tests, and come from a single specification and language binding document.
More information and the source of the sample implementation can be found on the OpenGL Sample Implementation Homepage.

15.01.1999 V3X

23.07.1998

V3X is a commercial 3d game engine from Realtech VR Software. The engine is not available for licensing.

• Perspective, gouraud/phong shaded texture mapping.
• Environment mapping.
• Texture filtering.
• Hardware 16bit or 32bit Z-Buffer and W-Buffer.
• Collision detection (sphere, boxes, and mesh).
• Support for JPEG,IFF,PCX,GIF,BMP,TGA and PNG textures. 4bit, 8bit, 16bit, 32bit and alpha textures.
• Animated texture maps (.FLC).
• Transparency (additive, alpha, substractive).
• Support for DOS, Windows 95 (DirectDraw), MacOs, BeOS, Power Macintosh OS and Sony Playstation.
• Support for Watcom C/C++, Borland C/C++, DJGPP, Metrowerks Codewarrior (For BeOS and MacOS) and Visual C++.
• Realtime gravity engine.
• Multitexturing or multi-pass rendering for phong shading or lightmap.
• Support for Glide 3.0, Direct 3D 6,S3 Metal, S3 ToolKit and PSX.
• Support for MMX (32bpp) with software RGB gouraud shading.
• Portal rendering.
• RGB or mono multiple omnidirectionnal,spots or direct lights with fog.
• Pre-lighting with raytrace.
• 3DS MAX 2.5, 3D Studio 4.0, Lightwave format compatible.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found via the Realtech VR World Web Site. (Click V3X in the bottom frame)
A new demo will be also available showing all the possibility of the engine. A licensable version will be also available.

15.01.1999 SurRender

01.01.1995

SR is a commercial visualization class library from Hybrit Ltd (surrender@hybrid.org).

• Open architecture, with source code supplied.
• Scene graph support.
• Cross-platform compatibility, fully portable across various operating systems and hardware platforms. Support for proprietary software rendering, Direct3D, OpenGL, 3Dfx Glide, NEC PowerSGL, P3D HAL, Rendition RRedline and Matrox MSI95.
• Support for Windows 95/98/NT,older ports exist for Linux and Irix.
• Material support.
• Multiple light sources with a realistic lighting model.
• Advanced rendering with automatic multi-pass operation where required.
• LOD support.
• Complete hierarchy support for all objects, cameras and lights.
• MIP-mapping.
• Various 8/15/16/24/32 bit image formats supported.
• Easy mesh animation and morphing.
• Easy bitmap/billboard objects and 3D sprites.
• Sub-pixel accuracy for texture mapping.
• Lens-flare, lens reflection, smoke and glow special effects.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Filtering and real-time image post-processing.
• Motion blur and anti-aliasing.
• Stereoscopic rendering.
• Support for 3D Studio .max and Lightwave .lwo objects.
• Support for multithreading and multiprocessor systems
• C++ API.

More information, screenshots and a demo can be found on the SurRender Homepage

06.05.1997 World Toolkit

01.01.1995

WTK is a commercial, portable, cross-platform software development system for building high-performance, real-time, integrated 3D applications for scientific and commercial use from Sense 8 Corporation.

• Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Multiple viewport and lightsources, 3D paths, portals, 2D texts and shapes, object animations.
• Supports user-defined drawing routines
• Multi-processing/multi-pipeline support
• Support for Windows 95 (Direct 3D), Windows NT (OpenGL), Sun, Silicon Graphics, Evans & Sutherland Freedom Series, Hewlett-Packard, and DEC.
• High level scene management such as hierarchical object culling, efficient use of transform information and level-of-detail switching.
• Support for many I/O devices like HMDs, shutter glasses, 3D trackers, gloves and 3D audio systems.
• Support for VRML, 3D Studio, Pro Engineer, Multigen and Wavefront files.
• Network support.
• C/C++ API.
• Sense 8 also provides a 3D Editor (World Up) based on WTK.

More information on the Sense 8.

30.04.1997 MindRender

26.02.1996

BR is a high performance programmer's API for PCs from Themekit Ltd.

• DOS and Windows 95 support (planned).
• SVGA support.
• Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves and HMDs.
• Z-buffer rendering.
• BSP support.
• Stereo rendering.
• Perspective texture mapping.
• Wireframe/solid, gouraud shading and optional phong highlights.
• Transparent and shaded textures.
• Light and shadow mapping.
• Unlimited number of colored lights. Spot, point and directional lights.
• Movable lightsources, dynamic light parameters, distance cueing, fogging.
• Pre-Rendering of static scenes.
• Collision detection.
• Keyframe animation, morphing.
• Sound support.
• API interface to high- and low-level routines.

More information and a demo is available on the ThemeKit Homepage.

29.11.1996 UVision

22.05.1996

UVision is a commercial 3D engine from Utopia Technologies.

• Six degrees of freedom.
• Fast Phong shaded, perspective texture mapped polygons.
• Multiple, movable cameras and view ports.
• Multiple, realtime movable light sources (point and spotlight).
• Support for multiple resolutions and color depth up to 65,536 colors .
• Surface attributes - sticky, slippery, bouncy, surface forces +++ .
• Colored light sources.
• Chrome mapping.
• Realtime shadows (coming very soon) .
• Polyon features: animated textures, screendoor opacity, edge smoothing, MIP-mapping, bump mapping, z-buffering, gouraud and fast phong shading.
• Advanced forward kinematics simulation of rigid body motion/dynamically customizable environment (gravity, wind, air/surface friction).
• Analytic collision detection and resolution with dynamic environment.
• Realtime dynamic constraint solver.
• Multi-joint inverse kinematic simulation .
• Hierarchical, linked models .
• 3D model scaling and deformation effects.
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies .
• Fog/darkness depth cuing.
• Support for Stereoscopic capability.
• Networking features (coming soon).
• 3D sound effects.
• Weather effects.
• SVGA (VESA) linear framebuffer support for the PC and soon support for the Playstation.
• High-color rendering.
• Support for graphics accelerator cards.

More information on the Utopia Technologies Homepage.

05.11.1996 Reality Lab

01.01.1995

RL is a commercial 3D library by Microsoft RenderMorphics. The version 2.0 has the following features:

• Wire Frame, Flat, Gourad and Phong shading models.
• Perspective corrected texture mapping in any shading model.
• Environment and motion video mapping.
• Full transparency, including alpha maps for textures.
• Z-buffering.
• Animated backgrounds with optional depth information.
• Multiple, movable, coloured lightsources.
• 4, 8, 16, 24 bit colour depths in both ramp and RGB modes.
• SVGA and Windows 3.1/95/NT, X11-Windows on RS6000/SunSparc/SGI, System7 on Mac and PowerMac (both planned, no port yet), Sony PSX support.
• Multiple instancing of objects and hierarchies.
• Multiple viewports, devices and cameras.
• Bezier patches with subdivision on the fly.
• Depth cueing with atmospheric effects (e.g. fog, haze).
• Projected shadows.
• Stereoscopic capability.
• Free form deformation toolkit.
• Complex spline interpolated motion.
• Collision detection toolkit.
• Immediate mode allows low-level control over polygon lighting and rendering through direct access to vertices and normals.
• 70 pages documentation
• C-based API.
• Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT, Matrox MGA Impression and 3D device standards like Intel 3DR, Microsoft 3DDDI.

Contact: Servan@Render.com (Servan Keondjian) or morph@microsoft.com.
The old RealityLab Homepage is currently not available - i already did a search on AltaVista and at MicroSoft to find a new homepage - there are recent microsoft products that use the RealityLab engine, but no reference to the engine itself.
There is a free Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer from InterVista Software Inc, using the RealityLab libraries available at the WorldView Homepage.
Information about WIRL (another Windows 3.1/95/NT VRML viewer that combines the VR capabilties of the VREAM package with the Reality Lab rendering engine) is available via the VREAM Homepage.

17.07.1996 Tex

17.07.1996

Tex is a graphics library for the PC by Daniel Vollmer. (FIDO: 2:241/1140.7 Daniel.Vollmer@P1140.F7.N2.Z241.FIDONET.ORG).

• Phong shaded, linear texture mapping (via enviroment mapping).
• Z-buffer rendering.
• Optional red/blue stereo rendering.
• Pascal/ASM source.

The Tex package is part of a bigger source distribution of stuff that Daniel Vollmer had done. The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

18.01.1996 RenderWare

01.01.1995

RW is a portable 3D API for DOS, Windows, Mac and X11-Windows by Criterion Software Ltd.

• Z-buffer and scanline renderer
• Multiple colored lightsources (distant, point and spot lights)
• Multiple cameras.
• Gouraud lighted, dithered, transparent, perspective texturemapping.
• Animated textures and environment mapping.
• Object picking.
• Materials support.
• 3D sprites.
• Backdrop images.
• Depth cueing.
• Support for graphics accelerator cards like the GLINT chip.
• Support for stereo glasses and headsets.
• DFX, 3DS and VRML converters.
• 900 pages documentation

More info on the Criterion Software Ltd Homepage.
RenderWare FTP Some RW-Demos: ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
A demo of Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment) that uses the RenderWare API is available via the Immersive Systems Homepage.

06.11.1995 SuperScape

01.01.1995

Superscape is a commercial PC based single user VR system manufactued by Dimension International Ltd.

• World, object, texture and sound editor.
• Support for joystick and 6D spaceball controller, trackers and stereographics glasses. Sound hardware support.
• Network support.
• Script language based on C, no direct programming interface.
• Virtual Clip Art (3D clip art modells with additional properties, like sound and behaviours - like a desc calculator that acutally works)
• The new Visualiser runs on Windows environments.

More information and demos on the SuperScape Homepage.

16.06.1995 VReam

01.01.1995

VREAM is a complete solution for developing virtual worlds. It runs on standard PC platforms.

• Monoscopic and stereoscopic rendering
• World and object editor.
• Support for 3D input and output devices, like gloves, trackers and HMDs.
• Hierarchical objects with attributes like sound, motion, penetrability, throwability, weight and elasticity.
• Complex interactive cause and effect relationships.
• 1000 pages documentation
• Script language, no programming interface.

More information about VREAM, VRCreator and the WIRL VRML viewer for Windows (that uses the Reality Lab rendering engine...) is available on the VREAM Homepage.

01.01.1995 Virtek 3D Ware

01.01.1995

3D-Ware is a comphrensive 3D graphics library which allows high speed 3D graphics applications to be written using your favourite compiler.

• DOS, C++, based on F29 Retaliator engine
• Multiple Viewports
• Autoscaling sprites
• Motion tracker support
• Support for HMDs and flicker glasses.

More info and a demo on the Virtek Homepage.
3D Ware demo: ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de

01.01.1995 Dore

01.01.1995

Dore' is a powerful 3D graphics subroutine library, made freely available by the Kubota Graphics Corp. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating graphics applications. It is also easy to use, portable, and extendable. This version has interfaces/drivers to X11-Windows, PEX, IrisGL, OpenGL, Postscript and more. It has been ported onto most Unix systems, including Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. It has also been ported to Windows NT 3.5. Dore is available on the Dore FTP Server

01.01.1995 Cyberspace Development Kit

01.01.1995

The CDK is a library to create VR application under Windows 3.1 or Windows NT. CDK is from Autodesk Inc.

• C++ class library.
• Color dithering.
• Support for many I/O devices.
• Support for graphics hardware.
• Physical simulation classes.

More info and a demo on the CDK 2.0 Homepage. A newer version of the 3ds/dxf/ast viewer for windows can be found on the Johnny Mnemonic VR Player Homepage.
Some info is found the CDK Viewer Helpfile.

01.01.1995 Purple

01.01.1995

Purple is an evaluation kit for fast 3D engines and virtual reality I/O devices from Karsten Isakovic (ki@cs.tu-berlin.de).

• ANSI C, runs on X11-Windows, Mac, Windows, OSF and TOS. There is also a simple C++ interface.
• Hierarchical, movable BSP subscenes with level of detail management for the objects, object grouping.
• System-primitive rendering for wire/flat shading, z-buffer, framebuffer only or z-only rendering, direct 3D hardware support (for DEC Kubota)
• Flat or gouraud shading in combination with dithering, transparency and texture-mapping.
• Unlimited colored, movable lightsources (distant, point and spotlights).
• Material constants (ambient, diffuse, specular).
• File I/O: rib,asc,rwx,plg,fig,geo,geom,scn,tri,ply. Texture I/O: tga,tiff,gif
• Multiple cameras with stereo-support that render into windows or textures.
• Simulated virtual person, all elements are controllable with I/O devices like Bird-sensor, Logitech 3D mouse, K1 glove, Powerglove, Sega Activator, Flightstick or 2D Mouse.
• Internal task concept, all actions run as purple tasks.
• 2D sprites, 2D and 3D text, overlay and underlay text, backdrop images, fog/distance cueing.
• Environment mapping and mirrors.
• Portal rendering with 3D frustrum clipping.
• Stereo rendering for red/blue glasses or for CyberMaxx HMD.
• Work in progress:
  • MIP-mapping and animation for textures.
  • Fast shadows with shadow mapping.
  • Phong and bump-mapping.
  • Anti-aliasing, 2D effects like lens-flares and fire.
  • Distributes object visualisation, networked worlds.

01.01.1995 Paradise

01.01.1995

Paradise is a 3D engine for 386 PCs from Robert-Jan Elias (Elias@fel.tno.nl).

• Perspective texture mapping for vertical/horizontal polygons, otherwise there are distortions.
• 2D sprites and transparent textures (billboard objects).
• Animated textures.
• BSP tree scenes with polygon sorting.
• Flat shaded polygons.
• Stereo rendering.
• CyberMan and joystick support.

A demo can be found on wuarchive.wustl.edu.

12.03.1998 MegaGraph Graphics Library

01.01.1995

The MGL is a 3D graphics library for PCs from SciTech.

• Flat and gouraud shading.
• Support for DOS, Windows 3.1 / 95 / NT.
• SVGA support.
• BSP sorting and zbuffer rendering
• 2D and 3D functions.
• 3D modeling system.
• Written in C++ and ASM.
• Support for Borland C++, Watcom C++, Delphi, Visual C++.
• Support for DirectDraw acceleration functions.
• Support for OpenGL for Windows ( Microsoft, Silicon Graphics and Mesa ) API within the MGL framework.
• Support for stereo LC shutter glasses (requires hardware stereo support)

More information and source can be found on the MGL Homepage.

06.11.1995 VeriScope

06.11.1995

VS is a commerical 3D viewing system for 386 PCs from Pearson Interface (Vscope@pearsoni.demon.co.uk).

• Gouraud-shading, dithered flat shading and wire-frame rendering in real-time.
• Shadows and phong-shading in still rendering mode.
• Stereo support using red-blue glasses.
• 3D navigation using the mouse.
• Collision detection.
• Z-buffer.
• Reads DXF files, outputs FLC movies and PCS pictures.
• DOS real-mode program.

For more information and a demo see the VeriScope Homepage.

16.02.1998 FLY8

03.07.1995

The FLY8 package is a wireframe multiplayer flightsimulator from Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au ).

• DOS (MsVC, Borland c, Quick C, DJGPP), Windows (3.1, 95, NT), Unix/X11-Windows (shm) and OS/2 DIVE.
• SVGA and stereo shutter glasses support.
• Landscape generation and collision detection.
• Algorithmic sky painting.
• Sound and joystick support.
• 2D vector text.
• Networking support.

Screenshots and the source are available via the Homepage of Eyal.

23.07.1996 X3D

12.06.1995

X3D is an X11-Windows wireframe viewer from Mark Spychalla (spy@castlab.engr.wisc.edu).

• Stereo rendering support.
• Multiple line colors in non-stereo mode.
• Hidden line / Hidden surface display modes.
• Utiltiy to compute convex hull of polygons.

The source can be found on ftp.cae.wisc.edu.