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MiniLight

Open Source by Harrison Ainsworth | Link to website

MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. It is primarily an exercise in simplicity. But that makes it a good base and benchmark (in some sense) for development and experimentation. And it just might be the neatest renderer around (on average, about 650 lines). There are translations into several programming languages. It is a command-line application. It reads a simple text model file and writes a PPM image file. Open-source C, C++, Scheme, Scala, OCaml, Lua, Python, Ruby, and... More info »

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POV-Ray

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The...

Photos & Graphics 3d-graphics, three-dimensional, ray-tracer
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YafaRay

Free by Yafaray Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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YafaRay is an open source raytracing render engine. As an open source project, users and developers have free access to the source code and it is free, as in free speech. Ray tracing is a rendering...

plugin / add-on Blender, cgi, rendering, raytracing, blender
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LuxRender

Open Source by LuxRender |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of...

Photos & Graphics 3d-graphics, render, photorealistic, raytrace
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Kerkythea

Free |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer. Exporters from Blender and Google SketchUp are also available. Allows network rendering of images and animation Supported Features* -...

renderer, sketchup, blender, raytrace
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Keyshot

Commercial by Luxion |
Mac, Windows

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KeyShot is an interactive raytracing and global illumination program developed by Luxion for both PC and Mac that breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models.

graphics, cgi, rendering, drive, hdr, move, intel
+3 more studio, nvidia, appearance
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Sunflow Rendering System

Open Source by Sunflow Rendering System |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Sunflow is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. It is written in Java and built around a flexible ray tracing core and an extensible object-oriented design. It was created as a...

java, cgi, rendering, photorealistic, raytracing
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Mitsuba

Free by Wenzel Jakob |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Physically based renderer. Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains heavy optimizations targeted towards current...

cgi, rendering, photorealistic
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Aqsis

Open Source by Aqsis Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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High-quality photorealistic open source 3D rendering solution, adhering to the RenderMan standard defined by Pixar Animation Studios. Focusing on stability and production usage, features include...

cgi, rendering, raytracing, computer-graphics, shader
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V-Ray

Commercial by Chaos Group |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the well-known V-Ray award-winning production rendering engine with the flexibility and exceptional speed of the interactive...

plugin / add-on 3ds max, Maya, Rhino, SketchUp, cgi, rendering, photorealistic
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mental ray

Commercial by mental images |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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mental ray® is a rendering software which generates images of outstanding quality and unsurpassed realism. The software combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full...

cgi, rendering, photorealistic
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Twilight Render

Commercial |
Mac, Windows

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Twilight Render, one of the photorealistic 3D rendering systems for SketchUp,

plugin / add-on just put in into your sketchup/plugins folder, rendering, photorealistic, light
+1 more sketchup
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fryrender

Commercial by RandomControl, SLU |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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fryrender is the physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It is a photo-realistic render engine where all the elements involved in the generation of the final image (materials, lights and...

cgi, rendering, physically-based, unbiased
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Arion

Commercial by RandomControl, SLU |
Windows

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Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It inherits all our expertise in light simulation and makes it run on steroids, thanks to our very unique...

cgi, interactive, render, nvidia, physically-based
+5 more cuda, unbiased, gpu-acceleration, fryrender, real-time-render
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Octane Render

Commercial by Refractive Software LTD |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. What does that mean? It uses the video card in your computer to render photorealistic results fast...really fast. This...

cgi, rendering, gpu, unbiased, un-biased
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Indigo Renderer

Commercial by Glare Technologies Limited |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, physically based and photorealistic renderer which simulates the physics of light to achieve near-perfect image realism. With an advanced physical camera model, a...

cgi, render, photorealistic, physically-based
+1 more unbiased
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Thea Render

Commercial by Solid Iris Technologies |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Thea Render is a state-of-the-art biased/unbiased renderer with a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio, all-in-one. Plugins are available for 3dsMax, Blender,...

cgi, rendering, photorealistic, physically-based
+3 more unbiased, global-illumination, biased/unbiased
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Pixie Renderer

Open Source by Okan Arikan |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Pixie is an open source RenderMan renderer for generating photorealistic images. You can compile Pixie on Windows (using Visual Studio 2005), Linux and on OSX (using XCode or unix style configure script). ...

cgi, rendering, raytracing, global-illumination
+1 more renderman
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Maxwell Render

Commercial by Next Limit Technologies |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Maxwell Render is acclaimed as a landmark in next generation rendering technology, having produced the best quality images to date, and continues to be the leader in unbiased rendering for photorealistic...

render, photorealistic
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Artlantis Studio

Commercial by Abvent |
Mac, Windows

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Artlantis Studio is the ideal tool for anyone who wants very high resolution rendering not only for images, but for QuickTime VR Panoramas, Objects and animations as well. Artlantis Studio the fastest...

animation, cgi, rendering, architecture, 3d-animation
+3 more 3d-rendering, computer-graphics, radiosity
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appleseed

Open Source by Franz Beaune |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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appleseed is a modern, physically-based renderer developed by the VFX and rendering nutjobs of Jupiter Jazz and ultimately targeted at production rendering. It is released as open source under the MIT license.

portable, rendering, raytracing, physically-based
+5 more ray-tracer, spectral, production-rendering, ray-tracing, raytracer

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