[an error occurred while processing this directive] Raytracing applications take a model with the description of a scene (prepared by Modelers, or simply by a text editor), and then generate image files accordingly. Raytracers usually take into consideration lighting, camera position/angle, material textures, and various properties affecting the images. Search SAL:

Raytracers   ( Commercial, Shareware, GPL) AnimaBob -- an interactive volume rendering tool for generating movies. AniTMT -- a flexible application to create photorealistic films. Axis -- a 3D network accessible rendering engine, useful for building shared virtual environments. Behemot Graphics Editor -- a raytracing program includes primitives, triangle mesh, NURBS, Bezier. BMRT -- collection of rendering programs which adhere to the RenderMan interface standard. BORG -- a network rendering system for BMRT with GUI. BOOLE -- converts a CSG model into boundary representation form. Conix 3D Explorer -- renders Mathematica graphics with OpenGL. CSG Ray Tracer -- a simple CSG ray tracer. The Difference Engine "r95" renderer -- a DOOM style renderer. DragonRay -- a ray tracing engine similar to POVRay. Entropy -- a high-quality rendering system based partially on BMRT. flow -- a particle animation application. GRAFICA NATURA -- 3-D realtime rendering system. jawRay -- an experimental multiplatform raytracer written in C++. Lightflow Rendering Tools -- tools for advanced photorealistic rendering. MasterPiece -- engineering visualization tools with ray tracing and animation abilities. Mental Ray -- high-performance, photorealistic ray-tracing and scanline rendering software. OpenRM -- 2D/3D scene graph rendering engine layered atop OpenGL. Panorama -- a 3D scene redering system. IRIS Performer -- 3D rendering toolkit for real-time, interactive graphics applications. Pixcon/Anitroll -- a 3D rendering package. PMR -- a simple 3D rendering/editing tool. Polyray -- a rendering program for producing scenes of 3D shapes and surfaces. PortRAY -- a portable ANSI C raytracer with some special features. POV-ray -- a 3-dimensional raytracing engine. KPov -- a front end to POV-ray for KDE. Povray Rendering Center -- an X11 based application to make easier the rendering with POV-ray. PovFront -- a front-end for POV-Ray ray tracer. POVTextureEditor -- edits POV-ray texture, pigment, colormap and color description interactively. tclPov -- a GUI front-end to Pov-ray. tkPovShell -- a graphical user interface for POV-ray in UNIX/X. xfpovray -- a graphical interface to POV-Ray. VisualPOV -- a simple graphical user interface of operating POV-RAY. Radiance -- analysis and visualization of lighting in design. Rational Reducer -- a new polygon reduction technology speeds up 3D rendering. RAY++ -- a collection of C++ classes for raytracing. Rayshade -- a system for generating ray-traced images. RenderDotC -- a photorealistic rendering toolkit adheres to the RenderMan(R) standard. SART -- a guile library for raytracing and high-complexity 3d modelling. Synpic -- a ray tracer with a rich 3D procedural description language. Threedom -- 3D polygon rendering engine. VolPack -- a portable software library for fast, high-quality volume rendering. Volsh -- a volume render based on parallel Shear-Warp Factorization algorithms. VORT -- collection of tools and library for image rendering/manipulation. WatRend -- a simple, portable 3-D rendering library. WebView3D -- a 3D rendering package. Xplanet -- renders an image of the earth into the X root window. XRay -- visualizing 3D bodies with various optical properties. Also Check Out: MARS -- 3D modelling animation and redering system. Panard Vision -- a high quality 3D real-time and portable rendering engine. Virtuoso -- an idea for a 3D modeling/animation/rendering package for Linux.

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