Kerkythea Alternatives

Kerkythea is described as 'Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Kerkythea for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Blender and Sketchup apps. The best Kerkythea alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kerkythea are Cinema 4D, MoonRay, Adobe Dimension and LuxCoreRender.

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Kerkythea alternatives are mainly 3D Modelers but may also be 3D Animators or 3D Painting Apps. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Kerkythea.

Kerkythea

Free • Proprietary

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*

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Kerkythea alternatives page was last updated Oct 25, 2021

Pixie Renderer
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).
49 Pixie Renderer alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Pixie Renderer Features
Ray Tracing
Rendering
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YafaRay
YafaRay is a free open-source montecarlo raytracing engine released under the LGPL 2.1 license. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene.
53 YafaRay alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Blender
YafaRay Features
Ray Tracing
Rendering
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Discontinued
The GitHub repository was archived in July 2020.
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Mitsuba
Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system for forward and inverse light transport simulation. It consists of a core library and a set of plugins that implement functionality ranging from materials and light sources to complete rendering algorithms.
52 Mitsuba alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Mitsuba Features
Rendering
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Adobe Dimension
Adobe Dimension (formerly Project Felix and then Adobe Dimension CC) is the 3D design tool made for graphic designers. With extensive integration with Adobe Stock, you can easily composite 2D and 3D assets to build product shots,...

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NOX Renderer
NOX Renderer is a rendering software based on unbiased methods.

The renderer is available as a standalone Windows executable with a plug-in to link it to 3ds Max.

A linking script is also available for Blender users.

As with other similar applications, such as Maxwell Render a.
51 NOX Renderer alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
NOX Renderer Features
Rendering
3ds Max Integration
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MiniLight
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).
46 MiniLight alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
MiniLight Features
Rendering
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RenderMan
PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.
50 RenderMan alternatives
License model
- Free Personal • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
RenderMan Features
Rendering
3D Renderer
High-resolution images
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V-Ray
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 rendering system V-Ray RT and the even more impressive new V-Ray RT...
52 V-Ray alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Rhinoceros
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Autodesk Revit
- Sketchup
V-Ray Features
Rendering
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OctaneBench®
OctaneBench® allows you to benchmark your GPU using OctaneRender. This provides a level playing field by making sure that everybody uses the same version and the same scenes and settings. Without these constraints, benchmark results can vary a lot.
51 OctaneBench® alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
OctaneBench® Features
Import CSV Data
Export to CSV
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Dead Deer
Dead Deer is a 3D modeler, 3D game maker, and a 3D demo maker designed to create games.
117 Dead Deer alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- 3D Modeler
- 3D Animator
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Dead Deer Features
3D Game Engine
Creating 3D objects
2D Game Engine
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Indigo Renderer
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 super-realistic materials system and the ability to simulate complex lighting...
51 Indigo Renderer alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Indigo Renderer Features
Rendering
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Freestyle
Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. It is designed as a programmable interface to allow maximum control over the style of the final drawing: the user "programs" how the silhouettes and other feature lines from the 3D...
45 Freestyle alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Freestyle Features
Rendering
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Octane Render
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 allows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of...
52 Octane Render alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Octane Render Features
Rendering
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