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Polyhedron visualisation
I would like to recommend free MATLAB based software that implements a new visualization technique for polyhedra. It is called "boundary interval method", and its primary purpose is to depict ...
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A tool or software to draw 3D stacked blocks
Since the graphic is isometric, it seems you don't need a too realistic drawing. In that case, I would use Inkscape. Inkscape it not a 3D tool, it's a 2D tool. But as you'll see you can get a 3D-like ...
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Rotatable 3D Models with realistic lighting
Blender
allows me to create simple 3D shapes
The simple shapes I have in mind are specifically Sphere, Box and Cylinder/Pipe.
has built-in shapes for plane, cube, cylinder, circle, sphere, ...
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Open source 3D imageviewer for Multi Picture Object (.mpo) files (Linux)
This programs can show mpo files in defferent formats:
https://stereophotoview.bitbucket.io/en/
http://www.sview.ru/en/
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Importing 3D background to a 3D design software
What you are asking is to do compositing. Blender can do compositing; compositing
Blender is also free and opensource.
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3D house design software
You can try Sweet Home 3D.
It has both desktop and web-based versions. It's free and open-source.
It's pretty straightforward on basic planning. If I remember well, you can create multi-floor projects ...
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Free 3D fractal generation
There is Mandelbulb.
it is free
is available for Windows and Mac
renders awesome 3D fractals
I'm not very familiar with it yet, but here's an example created by me:
There are of course better ...
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3D anatomy software
There is an Open Source project that has made a start on exactly what you are looking for within the Blender 3D modelling tool kit.
You can read about the muscle simulator, (so far), here.
Blender ...
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Web based solution for large point clouds
I don't think that either MapServer or GeoServer will be able to handle large point cloud datasets, though they can both use PostgreSQL/PostGIS as a data source. If you want some open source software ...
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3D simulation software (e.g. for quadcopters)
Although there are quite some Quadcopter kits on the market, and "how-to"s I don't think it is easy to create one from the scratch. Therefore I agree that first simulating the Quadcopter is a good ...
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Convert 2d image(s) to 3d model
This is quite a workflow but all free software, I think that just about all of it is available as a default in ArcheOS:
Process the images to detect the points into a cloud - Python Photogrammetry ...
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Crystal lattice visualization software
I would suggest taking a look at the IVisual kernel for Jupyter - it is an port of the Visual Python library to Jupyter - as such it lets you model 3D structures very flexibly from within your browser ...
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Make 3D animations
The best answer is Blender 3D:
it can do all that you need and more
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Full 3-D modelling up to photo-realistic results if desired
Animation and Rendering including moving ...
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Open source 3D imageviewer for Multi Picture Object (.mpo) files (Linux)
A quick search does not present any results for a viewer to display .MPO files in anaglyph form. This would be due to the original method of creation. The .MPO type was created to accept images ...
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Open source 3D imageviewer for Multi Picture Object (.mpo) files (Linux)
On Ubuntu you can use exiftool to extract the two images:
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
exiftool -b -mpimage2 input.mpo > left.jpg
exiftool -trailer:all= input.mpo -o right.jpg
(See ...
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free software to predict shadows of a house (3D modeling + sunlight)
I did a quick search using the terms "architecture modeling with blender sun shadows" considering that Blender (free software, very powerful, challenging to learn everything) allows for specific ...
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Component showing products in 3D, to integrate into my webapp
Blend4Web is a plugin for Blender 3D modelling tool that allows exporting models to web formats for viewing in a web browser or integrating into a websites.
It can export in fully self contained HTML ...
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Photogrammetry tool to create 3D model of glasses (transparent, reflective, homegeneous object)
You may find that you can apply a chalk spray to the object to create a suitable surface for photogrammetry. Many image scanning devices for 3D modeling have problems with transparent and reflective ...
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Open source 3D model viewer for Linux
Blender has a python mod to load ac files.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.4/Py/Scripts/Export/AC3D
Assuming the ac file type isn't used by another app.
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Math equations software for 3D plotting
mathmod
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mathmod/
Description
MathMod is a mathematical modeling software that visualize and animate implicit and parametric surfaces.
MathMod supports:
3D and 4D ...
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Free alternative to World Machine
i haven't found any free ones but i have found one that is very cheap compared to World machine https://starscenesoftware.com/fractscape.html
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Free alternative to World Machine
Blender sounds like it might be of interest for you. The software is based on a GNU General Public License v2 or later and you can download it on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Free Alternative to Matlab for Biomedical Engineer
In addition to python & related libraries, I would also recommend to look at
octave, a free analogue of matlab. Unfortunately I have never used that myself (neither matlab) so I cannot comment
R,...
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Free Alternative to Matlab for Biomedical Engineer
Yes there is the combination of python programming langage, ipython/jupyter, pandas, scipy and the numerous graphing, plotting & IDE options.
There are numerous books & academic publications ...
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Which software is suitable to project a video on a virtual hollow sphere?
You could almost certainly use ffmpeg to do this by inverting the values used for k1 and k2 the lens correction filter so as to take an undistorted input and produce a fisheye output.
Free
Open-...
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Web based solution for large point clouds
Don't know what software they use ... but http://cyark.org might be interesting to you ... it lets one view 3D scans of heritage sites as point clouds with millions of points in the web browser.
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3D Modeling Software for Tires
I would say go for Blender.
There are some great tutorials on how to model a tyre in blender, (as a quick Google will show), but they almost all are about how to do it manually. By all means look at ...
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3D anatomy software
Per your request, the mobile app I referred to is called Essential Anatomy 3 by 3D4Medical.com, LLC.
It’s highly rated (4.3/5.0 on Amazon), inexpensive ($10 US) and provides these features…
New 3D ...
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3D chess game without logic
Looks like you may be interested in software called "Tabletop Simulator". This will allow you to create a (or download someone else's) chess board. Here are the features that you're ...
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Software for creation of 3D models of humans?
Personally I cannot recommend Blender 3D modeller enough.
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Contains just about everything that you might need
Lots of books, tutorials, online demo, user groups, etc.
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