3DEL: Portable

3D Engines List
Portable

This list contains 42 portable rendering engines.

Texture-mapping Engines

25.04.2000 Panard Vision 04.04.1997

PV is a free portable Realtime 3D engine allowing for high speed, with no quality loss, rendering on Windows2000/Win32/Dos/Linux platforms by Olivier Brunet (pvision@planet-d.net). It supports both hardware and software rendering.

Perspective, phong-shaded texture-mapping
Flat, gouraud and phong shading
MIP-mapping
Bump mapping
Bilinear filtering
Full sub-pixel/texel accuracy (no flicker, no gap in textures)
Multitexturing pipeline, multitexturing support through GL extensions
User definable clip planes.
Multiple (non-recursive) geometric planar convex mirrors
User definable visibility pipeline (allowing for BSP, Portals or whatever you may think about)
Support for convex polygons, not only triangles
Splines
Static and pseudo dynamic lightmaps (soft or hard)
Realtime dynamic shadow casting
Detail texturing
Procedural textures
Mutltistage materials
Collision Detection (RAPID)
Extendable Object Oriented Particle system
Big mesh classification using octrees
Multiple, colored light sources
Hierarchical animated objects
Display lists
Stencil buffer on hardware
Support for user coded Special FX
Little animation engine with hierarchy
Span-buffer rendering and z-sorting
Support for portal rendering
Generic perspective span renderer to add perspective correction to your fillers
Multicolored fog (linear/exp&exp2) and Unreal like volumeric FX.
Vertex fog support
Software blending
Adavanced hierarchical world management/culling
Switchable graph nodes (allowing for Mesh LODs for instance)
Multithreaded realtime adptative LOD landscape renderer
Support for PNG, TGA & JPG files
Support for 8,15,16, 24 and 32 bits per pixel
Support for 3D Studio 3DS - even animations
Quake I and Quake 2 level support
Support for user file formats
Support for Zip files
Support for DOS SVGA, Direct3D , Direct X7 (with hardware T&L and compressed textures support) OpenGL, 3DFX Glide, PC 3d hardware, X11-Windows on Linux
Support for user made hardware drivers
Support for Visual C++, Watcom C/C++,Borland C, DJGPP and GNU gcc
Written in C/ASM
Simple/Extensible API

More information and the Panard Vision SDK (including 3DS file/animation viewer, Quake I viewer and everything needed to use this engine in your own programs. ) can be found on the Panard Vision Homepage.

04.04.2000 !B 05.08.1998

!B is an isosurface based 3D engine from Florin Soreanu (florin@ica.net).

Perspective shaded texture mapping using OpenGL.
Mip mapping.
Environment mapping.
Blob rendering with Marching Cubes Algorithm.
Surface underwater caustics.
LOD support.
Dynamic lighting.
Fogging.
Portable code.
Written in C++, source release planned.

More information, screenshots, and a demo can be found on the !B Homepage .

23.02.2000 Plush 16.12.1996

Plush is a portable high-performance realtime 3D rendering library by Justin Frankel (frankel@eng.utah.edu) of Nullsoft.

Shaded perspective texture mapping.
Environment mapping.
Shaded translucent surfaces.
Phong shading via environment maps.
Z-buffer and painter's algorithm (with radix or qsort) rendering.
Multiple light sources with point and directional lights.
Hierarchical Objects.
Palette optimization with dithering.
Support for 3D Studio 3DS. Caligari COB and plush PLO object files.
Support for PCX and PLT texture files.
Full 3D frustrum clipping.
Object morphing.
Spline interpolation with tension,
Limited to 256 colors.
Resolution independand.
Written in portable ANSI C, tested on DOS and with X11-Windows under Linux, SunOS, Solaris, MacOs, Windows, AIX and HP/UX.

More information and some demos and the libraries can be found on the Plush Homepage.

23.02.2000 Coin 23.02.2000

Coin is a portable open source C++ class library / toolkit based on the Open Inventor API from Systems In Motion.

Support for OpenGL
Perspective, shaded texture mapping
Environment mapping
Main goal is to achieve complete compatibility with the Open Inventor API
GUI system is developed for the Qt library
C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source (CVS snapshot) can be found via the Systems In Motion Homepage.

04.02.2000 GEL 04.02.2000

GEL is an open source virtual reality system from UR Studios, 7F Research, Qube, Headlamp, ParallelGraphics, Mutation Labs and other contributors.

Gouraud shaded, perspective texture mapping
Adaptive nurbs tesselation
Network support
Scene graph support
Support for DirectX and OpenGL
Currently support platforms are: Windows NT/ 98 / 2000
Portable C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the GEL Community Homepage.

02.02.2000 OpenGL 06.09.1995

OpenGLŽ 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.

22.12.1999 Quesa 22.12.1999

Quesa is a high level 3D graphics library, released as Open Source under the LGPL, which implements Apple's QuickDraw 3D API on top of OpenGL. Quesa was started by Dair Grant (dair@webthing.net), although substantial amounts of code have since been contributed by other developers.

Support for retained and immediate mode rendering
Extensible file format
Hierarchical models
Objectoriented API
Support for MacOS, Linux and Windows - ports to Be and Mac Mac OS X are in progress
Portable ANSI C source

More information, screenshots and links to download the source can be found on the Quesa Homepage

22.04.1999 Mesa 01.01.1995

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL by Brian Paul (brianp@ssec.wisc.edu).

Mesa works on X11-Windows based systems, Windows, Linux SVGA, NeXT, Macintosh, DOS, Amiga, VMS and OS/2. Mesa was written with portability in mind.
Support for PC 3D hardware (3DFX chip).
Smooth shading, accumulation buffer.
Dithering
Fog/depth cuing.
Shaded perspective texture mapping.
Gouraud shading .
Support for NURBS patches.

More info and links to download the source can be found on the Mesa Homepage

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

12.01.1999 3DGPL 27.06.1995

3DGPL 2.0 is a portable 3D engine from Sergei Savchenko (savs@cs.mcgill.ca).

Perspective texturemapping (via linear interpolation every 32 pixels per scanline)
Ray tracing.
Gouraud shading, flat shading of polygons.
Z-Buffer and BSP rendering.
Bicubic patches.
Landscape rendering.
Portal rendering.
2D and 3D clipping.
3D transformations with fixed point or float math.
2D text rendering.
Portable C with support for DOS, X11-Windows, NeXTStep, Windows 3.1/95 and Mac.
Tutorial texts, source code available and extensive 3D documentation

The source, tutorial, screenshots and more information can be found on 3DGPL Homepage. A Mac port of 3DGPL 1.0 done by Ingemar Ragnemalm can be found at ftp.lysator.liu.se.

22.10.1997 EGLE 15.08.1997

EGLE ( Enhanced OpenGl Engine ) is a 3D game engine by Phil Frisbie ( pfrisbie@geocities.com ).

Perspective texture mapping.
MIP-mapping.
BSP, Z-Buffer and z-sorting rendering.
Anti-aliasing.
32 bit color support (RGBA).
Collision detection.
Uses OpenGL API (Mesa/3DFx) .
Support for Quake level files.
ANSI C, no C++ or Windows specific code. EGLE should compile on any system that has OpenGL and GLUT.

More information, screenshots and the source and binary can be found on the EGLE Homepage.

16.09.1997 Project SpandeX 01.01.1995

Project SpandeX (previously known as Latex) is a 3D engine from Paul Nettle (midnight@www.grafix3d.tzo.com).

Commercial quality engine, written by commercial game developer.
Open-GL like
Texture-mapping, environment-mapping, bump-mapping, solid-color polygons, Phong shading, Gouraud shading, Lambert.
Perspective correct, and affine texture mapping both supported
Sub-pixel, sub-texel accuracy
Z-buffering and sorting.
Triangles, lines, points, text (mono or proportional).
Up to 100 dynamic light sources.
Material support with Ka, Kd and Ks variables (may change on the fly).
Support for any resolution.
Multiple cameras that can act JUST like 3DS cameras.
Hierarchical database design with forward kinematics and inheritance.
100% Pure C for portability with small inline ASM parts.
Over 250 API calls for maximum flexibility.
Support for DOS and Linux/X11.
Latest version is completely true-color.

More information, screenshots, the source and demos can be found on the Project SpandeX Homepage.

10.06.1997 Java 3D Engine 10.06.1997

The Java 3D Engine is a portable rendering engine by John Strömstedt ( john@online.bonnier.se ).

Transparent unshaded perspective texture mapping.
Flat shaded polygons.

More information and some demos can be found on John Strömstedt Homepage.

10.06.1997 Obj3d 10.06.1997

The Obj3d Java applet is a 3D engine by Bencsath Boldizsar (boldi@inf.bme.hu ).

Unshaded texture mapping.
Wireframe, flat shading, gouraud and phong shading (via environment mapping).
Z-Sorting.

The java applet can be found on the Obj3d Homepage.

09.06.1997 J3D SpaceCrafter 09.06.1997

J3D SpaceCrafter is a high level 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality API for Java from InWorld VR, Inc.

Shaded, perspective texture mapping.
Tested on Intel, Macintosh, Solaris, Javastation, JavaOS and SGI.
Hierarchical objects.
ZSorting and z-buffer.
Collision detection.
Multiple 3D clipping choices.
3D sprites.
Standard 3D objects.
Built in terrain generation and terrain following functions.
Support for 8 bit indexed and 24 bit color modes.
Java API.

More information and screenshots can be found on the J3D SpaceCrafter Homepage .

09.06.1997 IMAA 09.06.1997

The IMAA (Integrated Modeling, Animation & Analysis) toolkits by Hee S. Chung ( Hee@cyberkorea.com ) contain a 3D rendering engine. The IMAA toolkits are available for Windows, DOS and Silicon Graphics IRIX.
IMAGE, IMAA Graphics Environment

Texture mapping.
Gouraud shading.
Z-buffer rendering.

IMAML, IMAA Modeling Library

Low level ( Euler ) level modeling
Sweeping,
3D primitive objects.
Boolean set operation.
NURBS.

More information and demos can be found on the IMAA Homepage.

30.12.1996 Midpoint Algorithm Paper 30.12.1996

The Midpoint Algorithm Paper by John Mears (john.mears@oxinst.co.uk ) describes a technique for perspective texture mapping.

Perspective texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
C++/ASM Sources for DOS.
Very long documentation about the algorithm.

The documentation and sources can be found on the Midpoint Algorithm Homepage.

22.05.1996 OpenGVS 22.05.1996

OpenGVS is a high-level, applications programming interface (API) for professional, real-time, computer graphics software developers from Gemini Technology Corportation.

Support for OpenGL and Direct3D.
Hardware support for SGI, 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Intergraph's TDZ, 3DLabs GLINT, Lockheed-Martin's Real3D and DEC/E&S Freedom.
Texture mapping.
Fog model for atmospheric special effects.
Collision detection.
Hierarchical objects.
Import models from MultiGen, GameGen, Wavefront and others.

More information on the Gemini Technology Homepage.

22.05.1996 BRender 01.01.1995

BRender (Blazing Render) is a complete system with an applications interface, graphics libraries and device drivers by Argonaut Software.

Z-buffer and scanline renderer
Hierarchical, linked objects
Gouraud shading
Multiple cameras and lightsources
Collision detection
Sprite scaling and deformation effects
486PC, Apple Mac/PowerMac, OS/2, Windows could very easily be ported to the 3d0, Saturn, FM Towns or Jaguar
BRender is a 32 bit library, there are versions for Watcom or MS Visual C.
Supports hardware accelerators like GLiNT
Planed: fog-effects, depth-cueing, anti-aliasing, and covered light-sources such as spot-lights
140 pages documentation.
Non-commercial evaluation kit may be available if one asks via email.

Contact: Argonaut Software (paul@argonaut.com, rich@argonaut.com)
Information about BRender as taken from news and emails.
Move information and demos on the Brender Homepage .

19.04.1996 TAGL 01.01.1995

TAGL (Threedee Advanced Graphic Libraryis) a portable 3D C++ class library from Bruno Levy (bruno@ensg.u-nancy.fr).

Linear texturemapping in RGB and colormap mode.
Environment mapping.
Support for 8bpp, 15bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp displays.
Z-buffer rendering.
Gouraud shading and dithering, wireframe and flatshading rending.
RGB emulation in 8bpp mode.
Dynamic linking, to load new drivers at run time.
Multiple output windows or rendering ports inside a single window.
Tested with DOS and under X11-Windows with Linux, SunOs, Solaris, HPUX, OSF1 and IRIX.
C++ design with inheritance, C++ inlining, generic scanliners.
3 layer design (GraphicPort for portable framebuffer access, PolygonEngine for rasterization and GeometryManager for 3D transformation and graphic primitives).
GEOM file object viewer.
C++ API with lots of sample programs,

The full source can be found at sunsite.unc.edu. More information in the TAGL Readme.

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.

16.11.1995 Amber (Link Problems!) 16.11.1995

Amber is a set of C++ classes from DIVE Laboratories Inc. Amber enable developers to create complex distributed virtual environments on multiple platforms.

Windows 3.1/95 support (using 3DR or RealityLab ), SGI, DOS/Windows with Creative 3DBlaster and Sun running Solaris with X11-Windows.
File support for NFF, WRL and TGA.
Hardware support for 5DT Glove, VIO HMD.
Physical properties and behavior modeling.
Distributed interactive simulation (DIS) and multi-user system support using windows sockets and TCP/IP.
Add on modules like special fx, atmospheric fx, agents, inverse kinematics, morphing...

More infomation, demos and a shareware version can be found on the Amber Homepage.

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

Gouraud-shading Engines

02.02.2000 Trender 23.12.1999

Trender is portable a gouraud shading 3D engine for Linux and Windows from Thanassis Tsiodras ( ttsiod@softlab.ntua.gr ).

Gouraud, flat, wireframe and point rendering
Support for 3D Studio ASC files
Z-Buffer and z-sorting
Anti-aliased lines
Software rendering (SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer) or 3DFX support
Portable C++ source

More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Trender Homepage.

02.05.1997 3D with Hoops: Build Interactive 3D Graphics into your C++ Applications 02.05.1997

3DWH is a book (ISBN: 0-201-87025-8) from Wm Leler and Jim Merry that contains a CD rom with the HOOPS library for all supported platforms ( Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1).

10.01.1997 Graph3D (Link Problems!) 01.01.1995

The Graph3D library supports Gouraud shading, color dithering, good support for a range of color palettes (i.e. 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit color), and support for the MSDL scene file format. It is written in C++ for maximum portability. The engine runs under X11-Windows and MacOs. The full source is available at ftp.math.ohio-state.edu or via the homepage of the author Greg Ferrar.

07.03.1996 Free3d (Link Problem!) 07.03.1996

F3D is a portable, object-oriented real-time 3d rendering library from Brandon Van Every (vanevery@blarg.net).

Gouraud and flat shading, texture mapping is planned.
Painters sorting.
X11-Windows support.
C++ source code.

More information and the source can be found on the Free3d Homepage.

11.12.1995 HOOPS 06.11.1995

HOOPS is a commerical 3D API from Ithaca Software, which was bought by Autodesc Inc a few years back.

Windows 3.1/NT, Mac, X11-Windows on Silicon Graphics, HP, IBM RS/6000, Sun Sparc and DEC OSF/1 .
Flat, gouraud, phong and silhoutte mode.
Fast software z-buffer.
Display, printer and plotter support.
Support for hardware acceleration boards.
Object database management.
HDI (Heidi, Hoops Device Interface) is used for 3D Studio Max under Windows NT and in AutoCAD R13c3.
Easy to programm.

Contact:1001 Marina Village Parkway, Alemeda, CA 94501
More info on the Hoops Homepage of Tech Soft.

01.11.1995 Geomview 01.01.1995

GV is an interactive program, written by staff members of the Geometry Center, for viewing and manipulating geometric objects. It can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry.

Z-buffer renderer
SGI, NeXT and X11-Windows, binary and source distribution
polyhedra with shared vertices (.off), quadrilaterals, rectangular meshes, vectors, and Bezier surface patches of arbitrary degree including rational patches.
Picking on an object, edge or vertex level
Direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts
Supports OOGL, a 3D file format for WWW 3D objects.

More info on the Geomview Homepage or in the Geomview Readme.

Doom/Wolfenstein Engines

01.04.1997 Baltimore 01.04.1997

Baltimore is a portable doom engine by Song Li (sli2@gl.umbc.edu).

Orthogonal, texturemapped, variable height walls.
Floor, ceiling and sky texture mapping.
No shading yet.
Simple collision detection, no sliding on walls yet.
Stairs and elevators.
Support for Windows 95/NT and for X11-Windows (binaries are available for Irix, Solaris, Aix and Linux).
C++ source.

The source and binaries can be found on the Baltimore Homepage.

23.11.1995 Final 01.01.1995

Final is the final project of Peter Mattis (petm@soda.csua.berkeley.edu). The engine is written in portable ANSI C and was tested with a Apple Macintosh and X11-Windows on HP's and Sun SparcStation.

Gouraud shading and depth shading.
Collision detection between objects and walls.
Support for true 3D objects instead of sprites.
Support for 8 and 24 Bits.

More info, the source and textures can be found on the Homepage of Peter Mattis or in the Final Readme .

31.08.1995 WT 01.01.1995

Supports X11-Windows, Linux, MacOS, OS/2, DOS, Amiga
TCL interface
Extension with collision detection

The source and some extensions can be found at the WT ftp site magoo.uwsuper.edu or at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de (wt-05 source only). More info in the WT Readme.
The MacWT version can be found on ftp.circa.ufl.edu or via the Homepage of William Hayden.

Flat-shading Engines

01.07.1997 BSP Tree Demo 25.09.1996

The BTD is an interactive Java applet that allows the user to create and modify a BSP tree and displays the result with flatshaded polygons. The applet is from Paton J. Lewis (pjl@cs.brown.edu ).

System independand Java applet for WWW browsers.
Interactive creation, deletion and splitting of BSP trees.
Display of the resulting tree, polygon split information.

The demo and more information can be found on the Java BSP Tree Demo Homepage.

24.02.1997 Mirage 22.01.1997

Mirage is a unix port and followup of VR386 from Christophe Maurel ( maurel@electech.polymtl.ca ).

Hierarchical linked figures.
Animation state machine.
Support for WorldToolKit NFF, AutoCad DXF and VR386/Render386 PLG and WLD files.
Support for X11-Windows on SGI, SunOs and Linux.
Tcl/Tk interface.
Portable C source.

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

19.04.1996 WatRend 19.04.1996

WR is portable scanline-based 3D rendering engine from Gavriel State (gav@mag1.magmacom.com).

Support for Macintoshes, SGI machines, X11-Windows, x86 DOS and Linux.
Fixed-point and floating-point math.
Based on Rend386 and Avril.
Active edge table scanlining.
PLG file support.

More information and the source on Gav's Homepage.

Wireframe Engines

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.

12.06.1995 VOGLE 12.06.1995

VOGLE (very ordinary graphics learning environment) is a device portable graphics library that is loosely based on the Silicon Graphics Iris GL. VOGL was done by Eric H. Echidna (echidna@munnari.OZ.AU).

C source.
Drivers for postscript, sun workstation, apollo workstations, X11-Windows (R4 & R5), tektronix (401x), hpgl, dxy, and the ibm pc cards: hercules mono, cga, ega, vga and sigma, Windows and HP graphics terminals..
Bezier patches, polygons, arcs, lines and hershey font 2D text support.
Flat and wireframe rendering (no shading!)

The source can be found on munnari.oz.au .

12.06.1995 VOGL 12.06.1995

VOGL (very ordinary GL Like Library) is a device portable graphics library that tries to be Silicon Graphics Iris GL compatible. The intention is that any VOGL program will compile unchanged on a machine running SGI GL (the examples do). VOGL is based entirely on the other graphics library VOGLE. VOGL was done by Eric H. Echidna (echidna@munnari.OZ.AU).

C source.
Drivers for postcript, sun workstation, apollo workstations, X11-Windows (R2, R3 & R4), tektronix (401x), hpgl, dxy, and the ibm pc cards: hercules mono, cga, ega, vga and sigma.
Bezier patches, polygons, arcs, lines and hershey font 2D text support.
Flat and wireframe rendering (no shading!)

The source can be found on munnari.oz.au .

Landscape/Voxel Engines

05.11.1995 Venus 05.11.1995

Venus is a voxel terrain engine by Vincent Lepetit (lepetit@scinfo.u-nancy.fr) using the older TAGL 2.1 library.

Interpolated voxel heightfield rendering.
Textured sky backdrop mapping.
Plasma terrain generation.
Animated water waves.
Y-Rotation and translation.
X11-Windows, dynamic window size.
C source.

The source can be found at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. More info in the Venus Readme.

Non-realtime Engines

15.04.1996 NuGraf Developer's 3D Toolkit 15.04.1996

The NG D3DT is a commercial 3D library from Okino Computer Graphics, Inc (sales@okino.com). NuGraf's renderer is designed to create fast, high quality photo-realistic images using software generation methods. NuGraf is a complete development system for creating 3D computer graphics applications, the toolkit handles all aspects of the 3D modeling and rendering process.

High-speed, 32-bit broadcast-quality scanline renderer based on a hybrid Z-scanline/A-buffer algorithm.
Support for third party renderers via a back-end custom rendering interface. NuGraf ships with a full featured OpenGL(tm) interface module.
Hierarchical database management and inquiry system.
650 pages of documentation.
Efficient interfaces provided to allow large quantities of polygonal data to be passed into the database, including a host-based callback mechanism (the "user-defined" primitive). A mathematically stable sub-library of polygon welding and smoothing operations optimize any raw data for rendering (ex: DXF).
Meshed polygon vertices can be assigned a color, normal, (u,v) texture coordinates, and U/V tangent information.
Complex n-sided polygons with recursive holes & islands.
Sphere, cone, and cylinder quadric primitives with implicit texture parameterizations. Box, prism, disc and rectangle primitives with implicit texture parameterizations.
NURB and bicubic patch primitives with selectable basis.
Scenes are created using object instancing and hierarchical attachment.
Omnidirectional, unidirectional or spot light sources with numerous options: intensity, color, decay,fall-off, softness, shadow parameters.
Implementation of PIXAR's soft shadow technique with tiling optimizations.
A wide selection of predefined surface shaders: 2D texture mapping, Perlin and Peachy 3D procedural texture functions, spherical/cubical environment and planar reflectance mapping, mist and fog full-featured atmospheric shaders, flat, gouraud or phong shading models, phong or blinn specular highlight.
State-of-the-art analytic 2D texture filtering algorithms.
Output drivers for images, X11-Windows, SGI, Windows and VGA.
The library is available on a wide range of platforms, including Apple Macintosh, IBM PC 32-bit DOS, Microsoft Windows v3.1 (32-bit), Microsoft Windows NT (32-bit DLL), Linux + X11, SUN workstations, Silicon Graphics workstations and DEC Alpha AXP (Windows NT).

More info on the NuGraf's Homepage.

01.09.1995 ZRend 12.06.1995

ZR is an implementation of an accurate zbuffer renderer from Raghu Karinthi (raghu@cs.wvu.edu) of the West Virginia University.

NFF input files.
24 bit color TARGA file rendering.
Accurate fixed point arithmetic in all its calculations.
Gouraud shading.

The source is published in the chapter 7-6 of the book Graphics Gems V from Alan Paeth (ISBN: ) and is available at ftp.princeton.edu. More info in the ZRend Readme.

12.06.1995 SIPP 12.06.1995

SIPP (SImple Polygon Processor) is a scanline z-buffer rendering library from Equivalent Software HB. the authors are Jonas Yngvesson (jonas-y@isy.liu.se) and Inge Wallin (ingwa@isy.liu.se).

Phong, gouraud or flat shading.
Texture, opacity and bump mapping.
Bezier patches and polygons and object primitives.
Procedural texure shaders.
Arbitrary number of light sources.
Z-buffer rendering.
Simple anti-aliasing through oversampling.
Output to Portable Pixmap format (ppm) or user-supplied functions.
C source and good documentation.

The source can be found on isy.liu.se . There is also a version with TCL interface available at ftp.uu.net.

3D Engines List Portable

This list contains 42 portable rendering engines.