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	Agar The Agar project produces a portable and window system independent graphics toolkit for SDL and OpenGL?. In addition to a fully functional GUI toolkit, a set of higher-level graphics related libraries are also included in Agar.	504
	RTFSS project The project is for creating a fast open source free surface fluid solver based on MAC grid. The last versions add capacity to simulate viscoelastic fluids too. For the average user this just says that is a general solver of fluids (water, gas phenome	663
	Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library Bullet Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library. MIT license, free for commercial use, mainly for games and animation. Discrete (GJK) and Continuous Collision Detection (Time of Impact), Constraint solvers, modular C++ framework.	495
	STLport STLport is a multiplatform C++ Standard Library (STL) implementation.	542
	STLSoft STLSoft is "Robust, Lightweight, Cross-platform, Template Software" (to coin the actual slogan) created by Matthew Wilson	499
	SARGE SARGE is an animation software development kit that is designed to help you import object and character animations from 3D modelling software into your own application or game engine, whether that it is based on Direct3D or OpenGL.	505
	FLTK - Fast Light Toolkit FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX?/Linux? (X11), Microsoft? Windows?, and MacOS? X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL? and its built-in GLUT emulation.	508
	OMGUI OMGUI is an open source project to create a well designed cross platform GUI API utilizing modern C++ design idioms.	515
	wxDockIt wxDockIt is a docking library for wxWidgets which provides the necessary functions to support docking windows of different types: Floating dockwindows, Embedded resizable panes, Movable sliding toolbars.	799
	HTML Tidy Library Dave Raggett's excellent HTML Tidy has found a new home! We collect all the bugs and patches and have refactored Tidy into a free-standing C library.	408
	SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.	432
	Game Name Search GNS, or Game Name Search, is a cross-platform C++ library designed to enhance your application with hosted game searching, product updates, error reporting, chat rooms, and content sharing capabilities.	432
	MetropoLight MetropoLight is a simple freeware global illumination rendering program that uses the Metropolis Light Transport algorithm to render images.	442
	EaseProduction EaseExport is a professional and free plugin for 3DStudio MAX. EaseImport is the library associated with EaseExport. EaseWrapper library allows you using DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL in a same way, with a clean and easy-to-use interface.	450
	Nexuiz Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game made entirely over the internet. The purpose of the game is to bring deathmatch back to the basics, with perfect weapon balancing and fast paced action, keeping itself away from the current trend of realistic shooters.	407
	Newton Game Dynamics Newton Game Dynamics is an integrated solution for real time simulation of physics environments. The API provides scene management, collision detection, dynamic behavior and yet it is small, fast, stable and easy to use.	514
	PixelToaster Pixel Toaster is a portable open source framebuffer library for C++. In a nutshell, it provides a simple and easy way to get your pixels on the screen. Fast.	466
	libnoise A portable, open-source, coherent noise-generating library for C++	561
	CACAO CACAO is a JIT compiler for Java.	437
	Mersenne Twister Home Page A very fast random number generator	408
	Pixie Pixie is a RenderMan like photorealistic renderer. It is being developed in the hope that it will be useful for graphics research and for people who can not afford a commercial renderer. Pixie is an open source project licensed under Gnu Public Licen	465
	Dark Places Dark Places is a Quake modification author have built over the course of 6 years on and off experimenting, it got somewhat of an overhaul when the Quake engine source code was released, and Author began developing a custom OpenGL-only engine for it a	412
	OpenSG OpenSG is a portable scenegraph system to create realtime graphics programs, e.g. for virtual reality applications.	494
	OpenVIDIA : GPU accelerated Computer Vision Library The OpenVIDIA project implements computer vision algorithms on computer graphics hardware, using OpenGL and Cg. The project provides useful example programs which run real time computer vision algorithms on single or parallel graphics processing unit	485
	H3D API - open source haptic API H3D.org is the community website for H3D API, the open source haptic API.	583
	Botworx Botworx is an effort to combine the best of existing Open Source AI, 3D and simulation technologies into an easy to use & understand framework.	431
	MathGL++ MathGL++ is a class library for fast C++ maths for use in OpenGL C++ projects. Easy to use and similar to the OpenGL API. Matricies, Vectors, Quaternions, Linear polynomials with eigen systems are all going to be included.	915
	toxic toxic is a physically correct global illumination renderer aiming to produce photorealistic images and animations.	418
	Genghis Genghis is a set of extensions built on top of .NET and integrated with WinForms to provide application-level services in the same flavor as the Microsoft Foundation Classes. Genghis gets its name as the functional heir to Attila, a similar set of fu	531
	paxScript paxScript is an interpreter of 4 object-oriented scripting languages:paxBasic, paxC, paxPascal, paxJavaScript	531
	exmat - The Expression Template Matrix Library The goal of exmat is to provide an easy to use, yet very efficient matrix library.	516
	MCDX MCDX is a free game development library that uses Managed DirectX. MCDX is written in C# and can be used with any .Net language for writing games on the Windows platform. Please visit the Project Home Page for news, forums and tutorials.	809
	GOLD Parsing System GOLD is a free parsing system that you can use to develop your own programming languages, scripting languages and interpreters. It strives to be a development tool that can be used with numerous programming languages and on multiple platforms.	388
	PPL: The Parma Polyhedra Library The Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) is a modern C++ library providing numerical abstractions especially targeted at applications in the field of analysis and verification of complex systems.	433
	Crystal Entity Layer Crystal Entity Layer (CEL) is a game entity layer based on Crystal Space. It makes it easier for game developers to create games based on Crystal Space. CEL can optionally be used together with Python or other scripting languages.	1079
	CircleSoft (DirectMesh) DirectMesh is a keyframed file format that was designed with the end-user in mind.	405
	Titan Titan is an image handler for your graphics applications.	568
	oberhumer.com oberhumer.com is a small company that produces compression and cryptography libraries. GPL releases.	397
	TinyXml TinyXml is a simple, small, C++ XML parser that can be easily integrating into other programs.	433
	Crypto++ Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.	359
	Tiger - Fast New Cryptographic Hash Function Tiger is a fast new hash function, designed to be very fast on modern computers, and in particular on the state-of-the-art 64-bit computers (like DEC-Alpha), while it is still not slower than other suggested hash functions on 32-bit machines (well, n	454
	Qhull Qhull computes the convex hull, Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi diagram, halfspace intersection about a point, furthest-site Delaunay triangulation, and furthest-site Voronoi diagram.	449
	EOSscript EOSscript is a powerfull library for applications to easily extend their functionality through an easy scripting interface. EOSscript is a light-weight scripting language.	722
	Zoidcom Zoidcom is a high-level, UDP based networking library providing features for automatic replication of gameobjects and synchronization of their states over a network connection in a highly bandwidth efficient manner.	406
	OpenSteer OpenSteer is a C++ library to help construct steering behaviors for autonomous characters in games and animation. In addition to the library, OpenSteer provides an OpenGL-based application called OpenSteerDemo which displays predefined demonstrations	569
	NerveBreak NerveBreak is a C-like scripting language by Bad Sector. It is available for free, as long as credits are given and bug corrections/code improvements are returned.	597
	Ultra.Sdk OS independent C++ multimedia sdk for developing demos, tools or games. Base on a plugin architecture for image and 3d renderer. Support DirectX 9 and OpenGL. It deals with coding rules, advanced object programming, design patterns and unit tests.	822
	Final Render finalRender is the next evolution of the best selling raytracing system for 3ds max.	396
	Next limit (RealFlow, Maxwell renderer, commercial) RealFlow is the leading physical simulation tool for the 3D industry. Maxwell is a new render engine based on the physics of real light.	370
	Ch - C/C++ interpreter Ch is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D plotting, numerical computing, and embedded scripting. Ch is the solution for:	396
	Tokamak Game Physics Tokamak Game Physics SDK is a high performance real-time physics library designed specially for games. It has a high-level, simple to use programming interface. With Tokamak, game developers and designers are empowered to produce the next generat	425
	ReplicaNet ReplicaNet is an object oriented C++ library that is engineered to help the developer of applications that require a stable and low maintenance middleware solution to networking. Any project that is designed to use a network of machines, for example	401
	lib3DS lib3ds is a free ANSI-C library for working with the popular "3ds" 3D model format.	461
	Open Computer Vision Library This library is mainly aimed at real time computer vision. Some example areas would be Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Object Identification, Segmentation and Recognition; Face Recognition; Gesture Recognition; Motion Tracking, Ego Motion, Motion	483
	RakNet - network development api A free networking API that provides reliable UDP and high level networking constructs on Windows, Linux, and Unix	406
	paintlib paintlib is a portable C++ class library for image loading, saving and manipulation.	399
	OpenML - The Standard for Dynamic Media Authoring OpenML? is an open source, royalty-free, cross-platform programming environment for capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media - including 2D/3D graphics and audio/video streams.	481
	OpenEXR OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications.	380
	OpenAL OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other types of audio applications.	383
	OPCODE - Optimized Collision Detection OPCODE is a new small collision detection library. It is similar to popular packages such as SOLID or RAPID, but more memory-friendly, and often faster.	440
	Luabind Luabind is a library that helps you create bindings between C++ and lua. It has the ability to expose functions and classes, written in C++, to lua. It will also supply the functionality to define classes in lua and let them derive from other lua cla	494
	LTI-Lib The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision.	581
	LibUnGif for Windows The libungif package contains a shared library of functions for loading and saving GIF format image files.	641
	libpng libpng is the official PNG reference library. It supports almost all PNG features, is extensible, and has been extensively tested for over nine years.	440
	libmng - The MNG reference library & related info MNG, pronounced "ming", is the animation-brother of PNG, also known as Portable Network Graphics and pronounced "ping".	437
	libcurl - the multiprotocol file transfer library libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. libcurl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies	398
	SGADE - The Socrates Gameboy Advance Development Engine The Socrates Gameboy Advance Development Engine, the SGADE, is a collection of generic code for the Gameboy Advance. It is free to use in all of your GBA projects under a generous open-source license.	422
	Independent JPEG Group IJG is an informal group that writes and distributes a widely used free library for JPEG image compression.	387
	ImageMagick ImageMagick?, is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotate	368
	dPVS - occlusion culling middleware Hybrid dPVS is Hybrid's occlusion culling middleware. It runs on game consoles, workstations and PCs. The main licensees are MMO developers such as Sony Online Entertainment, NCSoft, Turbine and others.	402
	GNE -- Game Networking Engine GNE, or the Game Networking Engine, is a cross-platform, multithreaded, C++ networking library with an API specifically addressing the needs of game networking.	525
	Corona Corona is an image input/output library that can read, write, and manipulate image files in just a few lines of code. It can write PNG and TGA files, and read PNG, JPEG, PCX, BMP, TGA, and GIF. Corona was designed to be easy to use, and exports a str	572
	AngelScript The AngelCode Scripting Library, or AngelScript as it is also known, is an extremely flexible cross-platform scripting library designed to allow applications to extend their functionality through external scripts. It has been designed from the beginn	458
	Boost.org The Boost web site provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. The libraries are intended to be widely useful, and are in regular use by thousands of programme	455
	Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS) The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance.	488
	ClanLib ClanLib is a cross platform C++ framework. Essentially the library offers a series of different functionality under a streamlined API. Its primary focus is on games, although its not limited for that usage only.	425
	7-Zip 7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.	423
	tkscript TKS (short for toolkit script-language) is a free development tool to create portable "rich client" applications	465
	wxWidgets wxWidgets gives you a single, easy-to-use API for writing GUI applications on multiple platforms.	523
	Muli3D Muli3D is a platform-independent software rendering library, which implements features of current-generation graphics cards. Clean code and functionality, which exceeds features of current hardware in specific areas, make Muli3D well suited for proto	803
	STEVE'S PORTABLE GAME LIBRARY PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions. All are 100% portable across nearly all m	486
	Cal3d Cal3d is a skeletal based 3d character animation library written in C++ in a platform-/graphic API-independent way. Originally designed to be used in a 3d client for Worldforge, it evolved into a stand-alone product which can be used in many differen	608
	Aqsis Aqsis is a high quality, photorealistic, 3D rendering solution. It complies with the Renderman? interface standard defined by Pixar. Aqsis comprises a command line rendering tool, a tool for compiling shaders in the RSL language, a tool for prepar	577
	DebugTools library DebugTools is a library containing common debugging tools for code written in C and C++. There are three major tools - a logger, a memory tracker, and a stack/execution tracer, which can also work as a profiler. The goal of the project is to develop	581
	Crazy Eddie's GUI System Crazy Eddie's GUI System is a free library providing windowing and widgets for graphics APIs / engines where such functionality is not natively available, or severely lacking. The library is object orientated, written in C++, and targeted at games de	539
	BlitPixie BlitPixie is a collection of optimized software blitters, written in assembly language or normal ANSI C. The functions perform a lot of normal pixel moving operations, which means you don't have to write your own code to be able to get top speed. Bli	759
	Animadead This is a skeletal animation library designed to load and play skeletal animations. It supports models that are composed of several swappable meshes bound to a single skeleton that can be driven by multiple animations.	611
	2MIDI / BASS / MID2XM / MO3 / XM-EXE / XMPlay Homepage These pages are dedicated to bringing you some fine audio related software, with the focus on quality and efficiency. Including the XMPlay audio player, the BASS audio library and the MO3 audio format	416
	VTK The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization used by thousands of researchers and developers around the world.	569
	Squirrel Squirrel is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a powerful scripting tool that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like games	600
	GameMonkey Script GameMonkey is a embedded scripting language that is intended for use in game and tool applications. GameMonkey is however suitable for use in any project requiring simple scripting support. GameMonkey borrows concepts from Lua (www.lua.org), but uses	474
	RTX file format The RTX file format is an advanced ASE file format that supports important issues missing in ASE, e.g. skinning.	462
	Hawk Software GPL Network, voice and 3d libraries	514
	Allegro Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers. It provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse and joystick) and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3d functions, file	544
	DynaMo: Dynamic Motion library Dynamo is a software library providing classes that takes care of the calculation of the motions of geometries moving under the influence of forces and torques and impulses.	490
	Open Dynamics Engine - ODE ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API. It has advanced joint types and integrated collision detection with frict	475
	Digital Dawn Graphics Toolkit The DDG Toolkit is a Library of C++ classes to build real time 3D graphics applications.	711
	fmod FMOD is the fastest, most powerful and easiest to use sound system on Windows, Linux, and Windows CE there is, and now Macintosh, GameCube, PS2 & XBox!.	501
	A 3D Scene Graph Library SGL consists of a set of cross-platform C++ libraries, built on top of OpenGL, which implements 3D scene graph functionality (sgl), some simple 3D model loaders (sgldb, sglobj, sgl3ds), and some miscellaneous utilities (sglu)	633
	FreeImage FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe	610
	Fox Toolkit Multiplatform GUI toolkit	444
	GNU Triangulated Surface Library LGPL Library intended to provide a set of useful functions to deal with 3D surfaces meshed with interconnected triangles.	573
	GLFW GLFW is a free, open source, portable framework for OpenGL application development.	524
	OpenSceneGraph The OpenSceneGraph is an open source high peformance 3D graphics toolkit, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modelling.	485
	Simkin Simkin is a high-level lightweight embeddable scripting language which works with Java™ or C++ and XML.	487
	Small Small is a simple, typeless, 32-bit extension language with a C-like syntax. A Small "source" program is compiled to a binary file for optimal execution speed.	510
	Lua Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software.	462
	SOLID SOLID is a library for collision detection of three-dimensional objects undergoing rigid motion and deformation.	515
	Audiere Audiere is a high-level audio API. It can play Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, uncompressed WAV, AIFF, MOD, S3M, XM, and IT files.	565
	libQGLViewer ibQGLViewer is a GPL-free software C++ library, based on OpenGL and Qt, which eases the development of applications that display 3D scenes.	515
	Mesa 3D Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL	488
	SoftWire SoftWire is a run-time x86 assembler, written in C++. It can be used as a JIT compiler back-end for scripting languages, or for dynamic code generation of optimized inner loops.	787
	swShader swShader is a piece of software which allows to render advanced 3D scenes without the need for specialized hardware. Everything is done on the main processor. Using the most advanced optimizations, its performance is comparable to that of integrated	698

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