Art of Illusion Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java |
Blender Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. |
Inyo Inyo is an open source path tracer renderer written in Java |
jrMan jrMan is a project to write an open source version of the REYES rendering algorithm used by Pixar's PhotoRealistic Renderman. |
lucille lucille is a open source parallel global illumination renderer. |
MegaPOV MegaPOV is a custom unofficial version of POV-Ray with a lot of additional features. |
MiniLight MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. Primarily an exercise in simplicity rather than to be useful. |
Pane Pane is a physically based renderer (global illumination ray tracer). |
PARC The system is designed to be an ideal learning environment demonstrating programming techniques for advanced rendering. The open source code is designed to be easy understand without compromising. |
PBRT Physically Based Rendering introduces the concepts and theory of photorealistic rendering hand in hand with the source code for a sophisticated renderer. |
 An experimental physically-based renderer simulating global illumination, with progressive refinement, frame-coherent/noise-avoiding sampling, and generalised BRDFs. |
WinOSi WinOSi is an Open Source, freeware rendering tool for creating real photo-realistic images by a new algorithm. |
POV-Ray The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. |
Radiance RADIANCE is a highly accurate ray-tracing software system for UNIX computers that is licensed at no cost to users for non-commercial use |
Ray of Light Ray Of Light (ROL) is a research project on what is called realistic or physically based rendering. |
RenderPark RenderPark is a test-bed system for physically based photo-realistic image synthesis. It's package provides a solid implementation of a wide variety of state-of-the-art ray-tracing and radiosity algorithms. |
R.I.S.E. R.I.S.E., which stands for Realistic Image Synthesis Engine is a state of the art engine and framework for the simulation and realistic image synthesis of natural phenomenon based on physics, biology and chemistry. |
toxic toxic is a physically correct global illumination renderer aiming to produce photorealistic images and animations. toxic's goal: a free, powerful rendering tool which is actively maintained, developed and extended. |
YafRay Yafray makes it possible to iluminate scenes by means of a complete global ilumination system, using Montecarlo and Quasimontecarlo aproximations. |