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BORG in public & press

Introduction to BORG - http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2001/article200.shtml

This article is an introduction to BORG. It has been written by and .
The authors discribe the purpose of the software, the installation process and how to use it.

Open Source Resistance Is Futile - http://www.linuxmall.com/news/?1,237

This is an interview we did around may 2000 for the news site www.linuxmall.com. Actually we were asked (by ) to write something about the Project and ourselves, so this is the result.

Renderer

3Delight - http://www.3delight.com

3Delight is a fast renderer available on IRIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Linux i686, LinuxPPC, and MacOS X. For a detailed featurelist have a look at http://www.3delight.com/features.html

BMRT - http://www.bmrt.org

BMRT (Blue Moon Rendering Tools) is a ray tracer by EXLUNA available for Linux (x86), Windows 2000/NT/98/95, and SGI (IRIX 6.x). BMRT is available free of charge.

Entropy - http://www.exluna.com

Entropy by EXLUNA is a commercial renderer available for Linux/Intel, Windows NT/2000, and SGI/IRIX.

RenderDotC - http://www.dotcsw.com

A fast renderer available for Windows, IRIX (MIPS 3), IRIX (MIPS 4), Linux, Itanium IA-64 Redhat Linux 7.1.

RenderMan - http://www.pixar.com

RenderMan is a commercial high end renderer by PIXAR. Many renderer are based on the RenderMan standard. The RenderMan artist tools are available for, IRIX 6.2 & up, Solaris, ALPHA/OSF1, Intel RedHat Linux 5.0 & up, and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (Service pack 4).

3D portals & resources

Highend3d - http://www.highend3d.com

Nomen est omen. www.highend3d.com is a very impressive resource for everyone who is interested in 3d modelling and rendering.

Rendermania - http://www.rendermania.com

A website by providing news, tutorials, shaders and useful links for users of BMRT and RenderMan.