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Magical Potions

Art of Illusion – 3D modelling and rendering studio

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Art of Illusion is a program for creating high quality, photorealistic (or non-photorealistic) still images and animations.

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Magical Potions

Blender – 3D creation suite

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation suite available for many operating systems including Linux.

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3d render

MiniLight – minimal global illumination renderer

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

MiniLight is a command-line minimal global illumination renderer. It reads a simple text model file and writes a PPM image file.

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3d render

MantaRay – advanced open-source renderer

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

MantaRay is an advanced renderer.It uses modern rendering techniques to generate photorealistic images of complex scenes.

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Malt – fully customizable real-time rendering framework

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration.

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3D Rendering

Aqsis Renderer – 3D rendering solution

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Aqsis is a high quality, free and open source 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard.

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3D Rendering

Renderer – interactive 3D visualization of triangle meshes

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Renderer is a command-line, open source application which allows interactive 3D visualization of triangle meshes.

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3D Rendering

LuxCoreRender – rendering system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

LuxCoreRender is an open source software rendering system for physically correct image synthesis. Based on state of the art algorithms.

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3D Rendering

Mitsuba – research-oriented rendering system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques.

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3D Rendering

Cycles – physically based production renderer

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Cycles is an physically based production renderer developed by the Blender project. This is free and open source software.

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3D Rendering

appleseed – physically-based global illumination rendering engine

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based renderer developed by the VFX and Jupiter Jazz. Ultimately targeted at production rendering.

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HDR

Radiance – validated lighting simulation tool

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Radiance is a suite of tools for performing lighting simulation. The Radiance suite includes over 50 tools, including software to manipulate scene data.

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