Ben Thanks for these URLs
I am going to pass on SGI performer. I am staying away from demos (no sense in working with software that your not going to buy.) In working with an audience to bridge the "digital divide" I have to consider cost, so I am looking for freeware mostly I have POV and I found VMD to be interesting. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Barrett Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 11:59 AM To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list Subject: Re: [eug-lug]Happiness is a working Nvidia video card It is not Totally Free, but you might want to check out SGI's Performer -- they made a linux version, and it an entirely programmable 3D system, for modelling, simulation, games, ther interactive apps, etc. It has scientific precision.... in general, as I grok it. http://www.sgi.com/software/performer/linux.html Also, you might want to check out some visualization libraries, like VTK (the visualization toolkit), which is used in some 3D stuff like VMD: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ http://public.kitware.com/VTK/ And if you need photorealistic renderings of mathematically precise scenes (what I deem to be some of autocad's capability), I'm sure you know something about the Persistance of Vision raytracer, povray: http://povray.org/ Blender can interoperate with the .pov filetypes AFAIK; also there are some other nifty [stand-alone] tools to make and animate .pov files -- I used one that calculated geodesics once, it was neat-o... 'Hope this is helpful and new info for you! Ben B On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 01:43:44 -0700 "baggab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | John | | The project I am building involves engineering illustration and | speculative science illustration. Its a given that there are $10,000+ | workstations and$1,000+ software like AutoCAD and Pro/E. I was | willing to spend the money a few years back, but I decided that the | tools I use would need to be obtainable by my target audience and I am | committed to Linux migration for its superior qualities. After buying | Photoshop, and seeing that I was moving to Linux, I realized that I | could not afford to pursue expensive software for a windows | environment while in transition. Many of the powerful tools are still | in windows and, although there is WINE, Linux has to catch up. | Fortunately I found Blender to have many of the qualities I was | looking for. I am monitoring some Linux/CAD forums and hoping to hear | more about potential software. There doesn't seem to be a freeware 3D | CAD program for Linux that is AutoCAD equivalent, or even close. Its | my observation that Linux is in graphic infancy and I am having to | backtrack to windows for a while, but my fastest box is now set to run | Blender. | | Brian | | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Behalf Of john fleming | Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 5:28 PM | To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list | Subject: Re: [eug-lug]Happiness is a working Nvidia video card | | | baggab wrote: | | >Hey, I know I'm in the slow lane, but the tortoise won the race. For | >the unwashed millions who are struggling with RedHat 8.0, and are | >either engineers or artists, we are open for business. | > | >Note: sound card /w help, 10 hours; video card /w 52 page readme, 1 | >hour | > | > | I have a lot of interest in linux,graphics,game programming,3d stuff | ,nvidia cards. | I'd like to know what sort of programs you use,and would like to use | in your work. | | john fleming | _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
