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jurasek · Post by **jurasek** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:18 am

http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/
"...K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate Mathematical models in three, four, five and six dimensions. K3DSurf supports Parametric equations and Isosurfaces..."

cross platform

greetz,
jur

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:56 am

OMG, multidimensional?

*downloading*

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:28 am

DaveC wrote:I have alphabetized the list on my site. Thought I ought to before it gets too big to handle!

You forgot ti include Arbaro on your list dude...
Also Genetica isn't free, but the Genitica Viewer you are linking to is,
but the viewer can't export normal maps

just the texture to jpg png etc.
and each of the mixed chanels (some could be used for Bump Maping) up to a resolution of 3000x3000

DaveC · Post by **DaveC** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:46 am

ZomB wrote:Also Genetica isn't free, but the Genitica Viewer you are linking to is,
but the viewer can't export normal maps just the texture to jpg png etc.
and each of the mixed chanels (some could be used for Bump Maping) up to a resolution of 3000x3000

Thanks for the info. It already mentions that it's linking to the viewer, but I've removed the info about normal maps and I've added arbaro.

mmyjona · Post by **mmyjona** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:30 pm

I also found something clean and free in the following place. They are portable.
http://portableapps.com/
http://www.portablefreeware.com/

boweeb007 · Post by **boweeb007** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:48 pm

@manitwo: Hugin and autostitch rock! But I always use them with enblend (http://enblend.sourceforge.net/).

From the website:

Given a set of images that overlap in some irregular way, Enblend overlays them in such a way that the seam between the images is invisible, or at least very difficult to see. Enblend does not line up the images for you. Use a tool like Hugin to do that.

Check out their examples!

Koba · Post by **Koba** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:06 am

A couple of life-saving open source programs to add to your list (I cannot believe I forgot to mention them!):

Avisynth - http://avisynth.org/ Very powerful framesever scripting system (Windows)

FWC - http://fwutilities.sourceforge.net/download.html. This is a filewatcher that can run processes on newly created files. It is a Godsend! (Windows)

Duff - https://sourceforge.net/projects/dff/ Finds duplicate files. (Windows)

Refile -http://sourceforge.net/projects/refile/ Great renamer. Cross platform.

Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/ Forget batch files, this is an extremely powerful way of automating everything on windows!

The list needs text compare utilities - I have one somewhere but I'm not bothered to find it right now.

Koba

EDIT - I should shoot myself. Synfig is a crossplatform, ultra-awesome vector animation program. Think of it as Animation Inkscape, 2D Blender, Opensource Flash or Vector GAP (Gimp). I should warn people that it is alpha and buggy though.

http://www.synfig.com/

DaveC · Post by **DaveC** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:12 am

Holy crap! This list is getting LONG!! I'm going to have to start a database just to keep up with this! lol

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:24 am

Perfect for learning

Make it at your other hp

manitwo · Post by **manitwo** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:22 am

wow - sooo many great apps!
thanks for the links guys!

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:29 pm

Floor Texture generator does wooden floor from a single wood texture.

POV Tree a really detailed Tree Generator for POV-Ray, but SHOULD Export to OBJ too... somehow

tungee · Post by **tungee** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:58 am

Here we go your hungry freeware junkies

Wood Workshop
The Wood Workshop is a free seamless texture editor that specializes in the creation of seamless wood textures.

http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm

carbon · Post by **carbon** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:52 am

does anyone know some really fast osx xml editor for large files? sometimes i need to edit 150+ MB file, and the waiting is really annoying. forget about smultron, is cool but not for large files...

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:26 pm

Hey carbon, you use Blender right? If so, try a 'separate' feature if possible that removes mesh data and brings down the file size. Unless your editing mesh data or something....then I'm not sure what to do.

I still use notepad to open my scene files. (haven't looked for another program yet)

carbon · Post by **carbon** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:41 pm

hi Wedge, yes, i know, but i like, renderer settings, meshdata, materials and meshlights in separate files and i have to do this manually..

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