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There are two types of computer graphics: raster graphics, where each pixel is separately defined (as in a digital photograph), and vector graphics, where mathematical formulas are used to draw lines and shapes, which are then interpreted at the viewer's end to produce the graphic.
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FontForge
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FontForge allows you to create and modify postscript, truetype and opentype fonts. You can save fonts in many different outline formats, and generate bitmaps.
It's an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats. FontForge's user interface has been localized for: (English), Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Greek, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, German, Polish.
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Imgv
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Imgv is a unique and feature rich Image Viewer. It is released as free software with full source code. Imgv is portable and can run on Windows, Linux, BSD, OSX, and other operating systems.
Features include a GUI that doesn't get in the way of viewing your images, a file browser, slideshows, zooming, rotating, on-the-fly Exif viewing, histograms, fullscreen support, wallpaper setting, the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, playlists, view and download images from Web sites, movie playing, file searching/filtering, multiple directory loading, transitional effects, image hiding and more.
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GLIPS
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An open source SVG graphics editor and a SCADA HMI editor
The GLIPS Graffiti editor is a cross-platform SVG graphics editor developed by ITRIS. It enables to create regular SVG files and SCADA HMI applications that can connect to any data provider.
Features for the SVG editor:KToon
- Shape tools : rectangles, circles, ellipses, paths ;
- Path tools : Bezier curves, conversion to a path, union, subtraction, intersection ;
- Group editing ;
- Basic text support ;
- Images import ;
- Transformations : translate, resize, rotate, skew ;
- Property manager ;
- Resource manager : gradients, patterns, markers ;
- Export to pdf, png, jpg and bmp formats ;
- Print ;
- DOM viewer ;
- Memory monitor.
Features for the SCADA support :
- Animations and actions can be added to any shape ;
- Java SWING components can be imported to the canvas and actions or animations can be done with them ;
- Embedded database editor ;
- Test dialog used to simulate the variables values ;
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Synfig
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Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.
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Dia
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Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams.
It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
We feel Dia is in a state where it can be actively used. Many features are implemented and the code is quite solid and mature. Try downloading Dia and tell us what you think of it. If you find any bugs, please report them with Gnome Bugzilla. Check out the code too, you might even want to contribute..
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GIMP
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GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
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jPatch
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JPatch is a spline based 3D modeling tool (a patch modeler). It can be used to create 3D models for POV-Ray or RenderMan® compatible renderers (e.g. Aqsis).
It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
JPatch is work in progress. The current version (JPatch 0.4) supports modeling and some very basic animation features. There are develpment versions available (0.5.x) that support bones and a more sophisticated animator module, but this development branch has been discontinued.
The new development branch is no longer patch based, it's now using Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces. The new animator module will support many new features like a scene graph and inverse kinematics. A first version of this new code should be ready real soon now - but please keep in mind that I'm writing JPatch in my spare-time, so I can't promise anything.
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JPatch is written in Java, so it should run on every platform with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4 or later installed. Newer versions (0.5 and later) require Java 1.5 (5.0). I've tested it on Microsoft Windows and Linux, and as far as I know it runs on Mac OS X too.
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Potrace - is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap (PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format), and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file (EPS). A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company or university logos, handwritten notes, etc.
TundraDraw - is a cross-platform ANSI/ASCII drawing program.
GQview - is an excellent image viewer under Linux. GQview-win is the Win32 porting from Linux. It works on Win32 API not CYGWIN. The development enviroment is MinGW and GTK+ for windows.
Album Shaper - strives to be the most friendly, easy to use, open source application for organizing, annotating, framing, enhancing, stylizing, and sharing your digital photos. Album Shaper embraces open formats like XML, JPEG, and XSLT, while supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix users who speak a multitude of languages around the world.
ColorPic - Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It's impossible. That's why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.
digiKam - is an advanced digital photo management application, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections.
VIPS - is a free image processing system. It aims to be about half-way between Photoshop and Excel. It is very bad at retouching photographs, but very handy for the many other imaging tasks that programs like Photoshop get used for. It is good with large images
GLIMPSE - is a multi-platform image manipulation package, supporting BMP, PCX, and TGA files.
Potracegui - is a GUI interface for potrace and autotrace, great programs for tracing bitmapped images.
AutoTrace - converts bitmap to vector graphics.
ImageMagick - is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100) including DPX, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.
Inkscape - is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Skencil - is a Free Software interactive vector drawing appliction. Known to run on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, it is a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes.
Tux Paint - is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Art of Illusion - is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later.
The Irrlicht Engine - is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.
Crystal Space - is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++. It supports: lightmapped and hardware based lighting, shader support (CG, vertex programs, fragment programs, ...), mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflective surfaces, 3D sprites and more.
Gmsh - is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator with a build-in CAD engine and post-processor. Its design goal is to provide a simple meshing tool for academic problems with parametric input and advanced visualization capabilities.
POV-Ray - is a totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.
Wings 3D - is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
Blender - is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
K-3D - is a complete free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation and rendering system. K-3D features a robust, object oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists. It is designed from the ground up to generate motion picture quality animation using RenderMan compliant render engines.
OpenFX - is an Open-Source 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite created by Dr. Stuart Ferguson. He made the decision to release the source code to the public in the middle of 1999, and the product formerly named SoftF/X was renamed to OpenFX. It has now been released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.
Misfit Model 3D - is an OpenGL-based 3D model editor that works with triangle-based models. It supports multi-level undo, skeletal animations, simple texturing, scripting, command-line batch processing, and a plugin system for adding new model and image filters.
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