| Freeware
links
All programs mentioned below are either
fully working freeware programs or free versions of shareware programs
with some missing features. Even those programs are fully working though,
there are no programs where essential features (such as saving) are disabled.
Some of the programs are beta versions, and they may not be entirely stable.
The files are mostly computer graphics related, but there are also some
miscellaneous utilities.
The list contains the name of the program
and a link to the home page of the program. There may also be optional
download link if the program is not available for download on the home
page or home page is unavailable. Programs marked with bold are
the ones I have found useful.
If some of the links refuses to work, please
report
it to me! Also if you know any programs that should be here but are not
for some reason, do the same.
| 3D |
3d programs |
| 3DC |
A program for converting 3d
formats. |
| Alice |
A program for creating interactive
3d worlds. Includes programs Teddy2 and AlicePaint3d, which are easy-to-use
modeling programs. Programs require upgraded Java runtimes. |
| Anim8or |
A simple 3d modeling and animation
program. |
| Blender |
A large and comprehensive
freeware 3d program, recommended! |
| bCAD |
A DOS based CAD and 3d program.
Fluent with 3D Studio 4 files. (The site contains newer evaluation version,
the old program is available at Simtel.net)
download
v.2.0 for DOS from simtel.net
download
stand alone renderer "bren" from simtel.net |
| Cult3d |
A program for creating interactive
3d scenes for Web. (Proprietary format, not VRML) |
| DesignWorkshop
Lite |
A simple CAD program, suitable
for designing mechanical objects. |
| DOGA-L1 |
An easy program suitable for
beginners and learning 3d. Space ships, robots etc. can be modelled from
ready-made blocks. |
| DOGA-L2 |
Next lesson of DOGA, contains
animation etc. Shareware. |
| Font3D |
A program for converting text
to 3d objects. |
| hamaPatch |
A program for spline editing. |
| LODestar |
A program for simplifying
3d objects. |
| Mapping
Magician |
A program for placing texture
maps. |
| PhotoModeler |
A program for building textured
3d objects from photographs. Download
Photomodeler Lite from ZDNet. |
| POV-Ray |
A ray-tracing program, slow
at rendering and hard to learn, but has lots of features, is free and renders
marvellous pictures. There are also several modeling packages for POV-Ray,
such as BreezeDesigner, Moray
(30 day shareware) and PovLab (DOS). |
| ProgMesh |
A program for simplifying
3d objects. Download
link. |
| SoftCAD3d |
Quite comprehensive CAD and
modeling program. |
| sPatch |
A program for spline editing.
Includes export for instance for POV-Ray and TreeDesigner. Download
link. |
| Strata3d |
A full-featured 3d program with professional
quality. Program has been quite popular on Macintosh platform. |
| TreeDesigner |
A program for plant modeling.
30 day shareware. |
| trueSpace
1.0 |
A full-featured but old 3d program. Download
from PCPlus Online |
| UVMapper |
A program for placing texture maps. |
| Winplace |
Rather technically oriented
2D/3D CAD program. |
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| Animation |
Animation programs |
| Avi2mpg |
A program for converting AVI
files to MPEG files. |
| GIF
Animator Lite |
A program for generating GIF-animations.
Download
link. |
| Bmp2Avi |
A program for composing an
AVI animation from BMP files. Versions for DOS and Windows. |
| VidEdit |
Video for Windows 1.1, contains
tools for AVI editing. |
| WinMorph |
A morphing program. |
| Zwei-Stein |
A video editing program, freeware version
limited to 320x240 15 fps RealVideo. |
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| Fractals |
Fractal etc. programs |
| Fractal
Explorer |
A program for viewing fractals,
also 3d fractals. |
| L-system |
L-systems are mathematical
entities similar to fractals. They can be used for producing organic shapes.
Program can save the shapes into 3d files. |
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| Multimedia |
Programs for creating multimedia
presentations |
| FormulaGraphics |
A program for creating multimedia
presentations. |
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| Paint |
Paint and image processing
programs |
| Cartoon-O-Matic |
A funny program for creating
comic faces. |
| CVip |
Scientific image processing
program. |
| Gimp |
A comprehensive paint and
image processing program of professional quality, originally for Linux.
Windows
Gimp is a developer-version and may crash. |
| Harm'sTile99 |
A program for creating textures. |
| ImageForge |
Small and easy paint program,
supports also animation. |
| Reptile |
A program for creating textures. |
| Satori
PhotoXL |
A resolution-independent paint
program, it is some kind of a mixture of a paint and a vector program.
www.satoripaint.com |
| VicMan's
Photo Editor |
A simple program for photo-editing. |
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| Space |
Programs related to space |
| Home
Planet |
A home planetarium with a
database of hundreds of thousands of heavenly bodies. Suitable also for
people seriously interested in astronomy. |
| Universe |
A program for creating space
scenes. |
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| Terrain modeling |
Programs for landscape generation |
| GenesisII |
A comprehensive program for
landscape generation and map editing. |
| Terragen |
A landscape generator with
less features but excellent image quality. |
| Wilbur |
A comprehensive program for
elevation map generating and editing. Recommended! |
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| Utilities |
Miscellaneous utilities and
upgrades |
| Acrobat |
Adobe acrobat reader, a program
for viewing and printing PDF files. |
| bls
View |
A program for viewing bitmap
images. |
| DirectX |
Microsoft DirectX. |
| Expander |
Aladdin Expander can decompress
most popular packed file formats (zip, gzip, arc, arj etc.) |
| GhostScript |
A program for viewing and
printing PostScript (.ps) files. |
| Java |
Upgrade for java virtual machine. |
| Lha |
TinyLha, extracts lha-packed
files. Download
link. |
| WordViewer |
Microsoft Word 97/2000 Viewer
- a program for viewing doc-files. |
| SmartFTP |
FTP-program for file transfers
in the Internet. |
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| Vector |
2D vector graphics programs |
| CadStd |
A small 2D CAD program. |
| KyPlot |
A program for data analysis
and graphs, also basic drawing operations are supported. |
| PageDraw |
A basic 2D vector drawing
program. |
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| WWW |
Programs for web page creation |
| Arachnophilia |
An HTML-editor, requires knowledge
of HTML. |
| Netscape |
Netscape Communicator 4.78.
WWW-browser, e-mail and web page editing. |
| Manuals |
Manuals of HTML, Dynamic HTML,
JavaScript etc. on Netscape site. |
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| Misc |
Miscellaneous programs |
| StarOffice |
A comprehensive office suite
including word processing, spread sheet, e-mail etc. Compatible with Microsoft
Office. |
| NoteTab
Light |
A program for text file editing,
replaces Windows Notepad. |
| Eudora
Light |
An e-mail program. |
| Java
2 |
Java programming language. |
| Cdex |
A program for recording music
from CD into WAV and MP3 files. |
| Buzz |
A software synth and tracker. Very flexible
and interesting tool for creating digital music. |
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Last updated
8th November 2001
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