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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 pagehttp://gphoton.sourceforge.net
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gphoton/gphoton-0.78.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://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<gphoton-users@lists.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=12963
Developer List<gphoton-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=12963

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gphoton.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gphoton http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=12963
InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC++
Source prerequisitesGTK+, GNOME, libtiff
Weak prerequisitesOpenGL

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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