Open Source C++ 3D Rendering Software for Linux

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.

Unreal Engine resource viewer (formerly Unreal Model Viewer) is a program for viewing and extracting resources from various games made with Unreal Engine. Sometimes the program is referenced as "umodel", the short of "unreal" and "model viewer". The project was originally named the "Unreal model viewer", however, the name was changed in 2011 to meet the request from Epic Games. Please note that the "official" project's name is "UE Viewer", and a short unofficial name of the project is "model" (it was left from the older name "Unreal MODEL viewer"). UE Viewer is a viewer for visual resources of games made with Unreal engine. Currently, all engine versions (from 1 to 4) are supported. We are using our own build system to compile UE Viewer. You may find a Perl script in Tools/genmake. This script generates makefiles from some human-friendly project format. After that you may build generated makefile using 'nmake' for Visual Studio or 'make' for gcc.

K-3D is the free (as in freedom) 3d modeling, animation, and rendering system.

GLScene is an OpenGL based 3D library for Delphi, C++Builder and Lazarus. It provides visual components and objects allowing description and rendering 3D scenes in graphic applications. Update of newer versions of the trunk has been moved to https://github.com/glscene

GDS3D is a cross-platform 3D hardware accelerated viewer for chip layouts. Read standalone GDS files or use the Cadence plugin for easy integration with your Virtuoso environment. Developed by PhDs of the IC-Design Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands The GDS3D project is also hosted on Github: https://github.com/icdut24/GDS3D, but currently not actively maintained by us. Forks can be found at https://github.com/trilomix/GDS3D and https://github.com/skuep/GDS3D

NaroCAD is a fully fledged and extensible 3D parametric modeling CAD application. It is based on OpenCascade.

Equalizer is the standard middleware to create parallel OpenGL-based applications. Please visit https://github.com/Eyescale for current development information.

surf is a tool to visualize algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces. It is written in C++. The GUI is written using the Gtk widget set.

FCOLLADA based COLLADA plugins for Maya and 3DSMax. Newer plugins with 1.5 support and support the files mentioned in "Papervision3D Essentials" by Paul Tondeur are available at http://opencollada.org . Please use this project for FCOLLADA related topi

OpenSim - Open Simulator. Primarily a 3D simulator for multiple indoor and outdoor mobile robots. Includes 3D real-time rendering (via OSG) and a physics engine (via ODE). Current emphasis is on manipulators.

Zhu3D is an interactive OpenGL-based mathematical function viewer. You can visualize functions, parametric systems and isosurfaces. The viewer supports special effects like animation, morphing, transparency, textures, fog and motion blur.

2D/3D Scene Graph rendering engine for Linux/Unix/Win32 layered atop OpenGL. Supports stereoscopy, volume rendering, 2D/3D texture mapping, picking, LOD and view-dependent operations, cross-platform text, constant-rate rendering and image-based data.

The glVertex library emulates the legacy OpenGL API, which has been deprecated in OpenGL core profiles. It is also a convenience wrapper around GLSL shaders, VBOs and FBOs.

PixelLight is a cross-platform application framework for any kind of 3D applications like games, interactive simulations or visualizations. It's written in C++ and has been designed with flexibility and extensibility as one of it's main goals.

Emma (Extensible Multi Media Architecture) is an open-source, modular, extensible, dynamic framework for declarative authoring and display of 2D and 3D interactive multimedia. It uses Lua for scripting and Ogre3D for rendering. http://www.emma3d.org

The Mesh Viewer is an easy to use lightweight application for displaying three dimensional models (triangular meshes) from a variety of file formats. It uses OpenGL to render the models.

This project is no longer active. See vpython.org.

The Happy Cube Solver is an interactive interface for designing and building cubes and other designs from the Happy Cube 3D puzzles. It integrates a graphic engine for creating and viewing designs and a simple engine for solving them. Online version: http://shooshx.github.io/happysolver/emscripten/index.html Maintainance of this project moved to: https://github.com/shooshx/happysolver This program is indented to support you while playing live with the Happy Cube©® Puzzles. These puzzles are worldwide manufacturered by HAPPY bvba, Belgium, on licensed and thus restricted base (www.happy.be). The Happy Cube puzzles are the result of a real invention in 1986 by Dirk Laureyssens.

Displays four-dimensional objects and functions by projecting them into three-dimensional space. Viewpoint transformations and parameter changes are displayed in real time. THE PROJECT'S CODE BASE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB: https://github.com/lene/HyperspaceExplorer The Git repository on SourceForge will be kept in sync with GitHub at least for the time being, but for the latest commits you should check the GitHub Project. If you want to report a bug or a feature request, please use the GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/lene/HyperspaceExplorer/issues

GXSM -- Gnome X Scanning Microscopy: A multi-channel image and vector-probe data acquisition and visualization system designed for SPM techniques (STM,AFM..), but also SPA-LEED/LEED/LEEM data analysis. A plug-in interface allows any user add-on data-processing and special hardware and instrument support. Latest: NC-AFM and related explorative methods as SQDM can be configured. High-Speed external PAC-PLL hardware option with digital DSP link. Based on several hardware options it supports a commercially available DSP hardware and provided also Open Source Code for all the low level signal processing tasks and instrument controls in a most flexible and adaptable manner. All latest software is available via SVN only or Live Demo/Install CD: http://www.ventiotec.de/linux/GXSM-Linux.iso

The X3DToolKit is a developer's API that allows you to load X3D files into a logical graph. That graph can then be traversed and converted into your favorite Graphic Scenegraph or can be rendered using X3DTK's OpenGL scenegraph.

LexoView is 3D model viewer with focus on CAD data visualization. It is written in Open Inventor.

Open Source Remote Sensing OSSIM project, pronounced "awesome", will leverage existing algorithms/tools/packages from the open source community in construction of the ultimate Remote Sensing/Image Processing/GIS package. osgPlanet extends OSSIM and Op

QMGA is a Qt-based molecular graphics application for visualizing large ensembles of ellipsoids, spherocylinders or spheres. It is conceived for coarse-grained mesoscopic molecular simulation, but can be used for any kind of convex body systems.