Zhu3D 3.0.0

With Zhu3D you interactively can view and animate functions, isosurfaces and a further independent parametric system. Numerical solutions of an equation system can be found with a precise and reliable adaptive random search. The OpenGL-viewer supports zooming, scaling, rotating and translating as well as filed lightning or surface properties. Special effects are transparency, textures, fog and motion blur.
You have up to eight independent lights or spotlights, background settings, miscellaneous wire-modes or global illumination models. Pictures are rendered as PNG, JPG, PDF or PostScript and can be of arbitrary size. For textures Zhu3D recognizes nine common formats. Isosurfaces you can be visualized with different volume-based algorithms.
Zhu3D runs under Linux/Unix, Windows 98-XP and Mac OS X and is localized for English, German and Spanish. It supports different CPUs as well as different APIs like KDE, Motiv, Gnome or Windows. All settings can be changed dynamically at runtime. The application comes with extended help-files and a lot of examples.
COMPILING:
All you need is Qt 4.1 or later and support for OpenGL 1.2, what can be a software implementation like Mesa. The qmake easily can be taylored for special needs, what supports packagers.
HARDWARE:
For basic viewings even an old and slow PC without hardware accelerated OpenGL is sufficient. However, enabling goddies like animation, big textures and especially motion blur is a challenge for every GPU out there. On the other hand isosurfaces with dense meshes need a lot of CPU-power.
VERSIONS:
Whatever ends with an odd number, is considered as "pre". Those versions are not intended to be unfinished or buggy, but my testing capabilities are limited to my own HW/SW-configurations. So especially packagers may wait for an even number. This happens after a significant amount of downloads and no major problems reported. A complete Windows version is available - special thanks to Victor Fernandez, who is hosting this!
Enhancements:
- When wire-mode was on, the xyz-legends rendered incorrect. Fixed
- Small optimization in the "Special editor" ui-form for nicer view
- Slightly polishing startup file and some examples