Open Source Unix Shell 3D Rendering Software

VirtualGL redirects 3D commands from a Unix/Linux OpenGL application onto a server-side GPU and converts the rendered 3D images into a video stream with which remote clients can interact to view and control the 3D application in real time.

BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.

Kokua is an open source metaverse viewer project based on the Second Life Viewer source. Disclaimer: This software is not provided or supported by Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. The goal of Kokua is to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer through community involvement, thoughtful design, modern development methods, and a pro-change atmosphere.

LPub3D is an Open Source WYSIWYG editing application for creating LEGO® style digital building instructions. LPub3D is developed and maintained by Trevor SANDY. It uses the LDraw™ parts library, the most comprehensive library of digital Open Source LEGO® bricks available (www.ldraw.org/ ) and reads the LDraw LDR and MPD model file formats. LPub3D is available for free under the GNU Public License v3 and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS Operating Systems. LPub3D is also available as a Linux 'no-install', multi-platform AppImage. Portions of LPub3D are based on LPUB© 2007-2009 Kevin Clague, LeoCAD© 2025 Leonardo Zide, LDView© 2025 Travis Cobbs & Peter Bartfai and additional third party components. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this application. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this application. © 2015-2025 Trevor SANDY

SaVi - simulate Starlink, Iridium, Globalstar, O3b, GPS, Galileo and other satellite constellations, modify them, or design your own. Requires Tcl/Tk and Unix libraries; 3D viewing option requires Geomview running on X Window.

Imprudence is an open source metaverse viewer project based on the Second Life Viewer source. The goal of Imprudence is to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer through community involvement, thoughtful design, modern development methods, and a pro-change atmosphere.

A 3D System for System Visualization, System Administration and intended to be a platform for VR Apps in the future.

Conic Planet is a CGI application which renders a photo-realistic real-time image of the Earth and other planets. It has support for Azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide, Orthographic, and Rectangular projections. It also shows the current cloud covering.

Kokua is an open source metaverse viewer project based on the Second Life Viewer source. Disclaimer: This software is not provided or supported by Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. The goal of Kokua is to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer through community involvement, thoughtful design, modern development methods, and a pro-change atmosphere.

The Open Descent Foundation (ODF) is a community for developers, who want to help to create open source programs, tools, etc. for the famous games Descent1, -2 or -3. Everyone can join the ODF if he accepts the idea of writing open source programs.

Tool kit to use with RenderMan(R) compatible renderers. Include Blender->RIB exporter, shader editor, procedural geometry generators and other useful tools.

The Imprudence and Kokua open source metaverse viewers are developed by Team Purple. This project is for the common stuff that is shared between the two viewers.

To provide users with a customized rendering pipeline, right down to how the bounding code bounds. TRRT is about providing the rendering pipeline you want and need, whether you render at a professional or hobbyist level. Will be RenderMan compliant.

Theophanu defines the data-structure and the processing logics to control daylight simulations with Radiance on hierarchical models. It was developed together with a detailed simulation model of late antique Hagia Sophia in Istanbul as part of a research project at TU Darmstadt, supported by the DFG German Research Foundation, grant #5194526: "Die Hagia Sophia Justinians in Konstantinopel als Schauplatz weltlicher und geistlicher Inszenierung in der Spätantike" (http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5194526). Theophanu is implemented as a set of Makefiles, that are understood by gnumake (and possibly other, compatible software). It controls the open source, daylight simulation suite Radiance. To reference Theophanu: Lars O. Grobe (2003). Theophanu - Scenebuilding Environment. Version 0.1. https://sourceforge.net/p/theophanu

Tidarque is an open source VRML browser for Unix. It intends to be robust, full-featured, flexible and fast (in that order !).

xizero is a 3d enhanced vertical scroller/shooter. It will run under linux and possibly windows and is a complete software renderer. More at: http://atcrosslevel.de