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Gphoton - 3d modeller with integrated ray tracer

Gphoton is a simple 3d modeller with integrated ray tracer. It lets you construct/manipulate/modify a 3d model while approximating the scene with OpenGL. It renders with either the software ray-tracer or OpenGL; screenshots can be saved to TIF. You move around in the scene interactively with keyboard/mouse combinations and/or dialog clicks.

It's intended primarily for artistic use (as opposed, for example, to use as a 3D modeller for games). As a ray-tracer entirely implemented in software, the program is extremely slow compared to hardware 3d graphics. However, being software, it is extremely flexible and extensible, more hardware independent, and can produce images of outstanding quality and very high resolutions (ie ANSI-E size 300 dpi images).

Obtaining

Web page http://gphoton.sourceforge.net
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gphoton/gphoton-0.78.tar.gz
Source information http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12963
Version 0.78 (beta) released on 2002-01-11

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide available in HTML format from http://gphoton.sourceforge.net/infopages/readme.txt

Support contacts

Help List	<[email protected]> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=12963
Developer List	<[email protected]> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=12963

Project contacts

Maintainers	Matt Shepard <[email protected]>
Developers	Matt Shepard <[email protected]> David Orendorff <[email protected]>

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/gphoton http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=12963
Interfaces	X Window System
Source languages	C++
Source prerequisites	GTK+, GNOME, libtiff
Weak prerequisites	OpenGL

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <[email protected]>
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <[email protected]>

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