3D Engines List
Source & Patch/curved surf

This list contains 19 patch/curved surface rendering engines with source code.




Texture-mapping Engines


27.04.2000 Titan Engine 27.04.2000
The Titan Engine is a 3D engine for Windows from Ignacio Castaño Aguado, José Luis Fernández Rueda, Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich and Julio César Espada Rodrígue ( titan@talika.fie.us.es ). More information, screenshots, a demo and the source for an older version (called Nemesis) can be found on the Titan Project Homepage.

12.04.2000 Blitz Engine 05.10.1998
The Blitz Engine is a Windows rendering engine from Richard Turnbull ( rt71@hotmail.com ). More information, screenshots and a demo, SDK 1.2 and source can be found on the Blitz Engine Homepage .

11.02.2000 Blaxxun Contact 3D 11.02.2000
Blaxxun Contact 3D is an OpenSource VRML 97 Viewer from Blaxxun Interactive. More information about the Blaxxun Contact 3D Viewer can be found on the Blaxxun Contact Developers Homepage, the source and documentation can be found on the Blaxxun Contact 3D Source 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. More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the GEL Community Homepage.

02.02.2000 OpenGL 06.09.1995
OpenGL® 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.
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.

02.02.2000 Apprentice 11.12.1996
Apprentice is an Inventor emulation library that reads and displays .iv files from Eric Victor Powers (powerg@deltanet.com). More information and the license agreement can be found on the Apprentice 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. More information, screenshots and links to download the source can be found on the Quesa Homepage

28.09.1999 Gizmo3D 28.09.1999
Gizmo3D is a high performance 3D scene graph and visualisation toolkit for Linux, Win32 and Irix from Anders Moden ( anders@linux3d.net ). More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Gizmo3D Homepage.

03.09.1999 Crystal Space 25.08.1997
Crystal Space is a 3D engine for Unix from Jorrit Tyberghein ( Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be ). More information, screenshots, the source and a unix executable is available on the Crystal Space 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). More info and links to download the source can be found on the Mesa Homepage

09.02.1999 Focus 27.10.1998
Focus is a simple 3D engine for Windows that is intended as a experimental engine for testing various new techniques from Jacco Bikker ( Jacco.Bikker@HTA.nl ) aka 'The Phantom'.
More information, screenshots, binaries and the souce can be found on the Phantom Cyberspace 3D Homepage .

12.01.1999 3DGPL 27.06.1995
3DGPL 2.0 is a portable 3D engine from Sergei Savchenko (savs@cs.mcgill.ca). 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.

12.11.1996 GRAFICA NATURA 20.09.1996
GRAFICA NATURA is a 3-D realtime rendering system which was primarily designed for realistic visualization of natural objects and phenomena, e.g. plants, landscapes, clouds and water. GN is written by Steffen Hauser (stephen@cs.tu-berlin.de). The source and more information can be found on the GRAFICA NATURA 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


11.02.2000 Dex3D 11.02.2000
DeX3D is an open source 3D engine coded entirely in Visual Basic from Jerry Chen ( onlyuser@hotmail.com ). More information, screenshots and the source can be found on the Dex3D Homepage.

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


Wireframe Engines


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


Non-realtime Engines


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


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