Free method123 3.6 software for linux

The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file.
The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer(tm) was developed from DKBTrace 2.12 (written by David K. Buck and Aaron A. Collins) by a bunch of people (called the POV-Team?) in their spare time. The headquarters of the POV-Team is on the internet (see "Where to Find POV-Ray Files" for more details).
The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can be modified so you do not have to start from scratch.
In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a large library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided. You can include these shapes and materials in your own scenes by just including the library file name at the top of your scene file, and by using the shape or material name in your scene.
Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.
Ray-tracing is a rendering technique that calculates an image of a scene by simulating the way rays of light travel in the real world. However it does its job backwards. In the real world, rays of light are emitted from a light source and illuminate objects. The light reflects off of the objects or passes through transparent objects. This reflected light hits our eyes or perhaps a camera lens. Because the vast majority of rays never hit an observer, it would take forever to trace a scene.
Ray-tracing programs like POV-Ray start with their simulated camera and trace rays backwards out into the scene. The user specifies the location of the camera, light sources, and objects as well as the surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any atmospheric media such as fog, haze, or fire.
For every pixel in the final image one or more viewing rays are shot from the camera, into the scene to see if it intersects with any of the objects in the scene. These "viewing rays" originate from the viewer, represented by the camera, and pass through the viewing window (representing the final image).
Every time an object is hit, the color of the surface at that point is calculated. For this purpose rays are sent backwards to each light source to determine the amount of light coming from the source. These "shadow rays" are tested to tell whether the surface point lies in shadow or not. If the surface is reflective or transparent new rays are set up and traced in order to determine the contribution of the reflected and refracted light to the final surface color.
Special features like inter-diffuse reflection (radiosity), atmospheric effects and area lights make it necessary to shoot a lot of additional rays into the scene for every pixel.
Main features:
- Easy to use scene description language.
- Large library of stunning example scene files.
- Standard include files that pre-define many shapes, colors and textures.
- Very high quality output image files (up to 48-bit color).
- 16 and 24 bit color display on many computer platforms using appropriate hardware.
- Create landscapes using smoothed height fields.
- Many camera types, including perspective, orthographic, fisheye, etc.
- Spotlights, cylindrical lights and area lights for sophisticated lighting.
- Photons for realistic, reflected and refracted, caustics. Photons also interact with media.
- Phong and specular highlighting for more realistic-looking surfaces.
- Inter-diffuse reflection (radiosity) for more realistic lighting.
- Atmospheric effects like atmosphere, ground-fog and rainbow.
- Particle media to model effects like clouds, dust, fire and steam.
- Several image file output formats including Targa, BMP (Windows only), PNG and PPM.
- Basic shape primitives such as ... spheres, boxes, quadrics, cylinders, cones, triangle and planes.
- Advanced shape primitives such as ... Tori (donuts), bezier patches, height fields (mountains), blobs, quartics, smooth triangles, text, superquadrics, surfaces of revolution, prisms, polygons, lathes, fractals, isosurfaces and the parametric object.
- Shapes can easily be combined to create new complex shapes using Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG). POV-Ray supports unions, merges, intersections and differences.
- Objects are assigned materials called textures (a texture describes the coloring and surface properties of a shape) and interior properties such as index of refraction and particle media (formerly known as "halos").
- Built-in color and normal patterns: Agate, Bozo, Bumps, Checker, Crackle, Dents, Granite, Gradient, Hexagon, Leopard, Mandel, Marble, Onion, Quilted, Ripples, Spotted, Spiral, Radial, Waves, Wood, Wrinkles and image file mapping. Or build your own pattern using functions.
- Users can create their own textures or use pre-defined textures such as ... Brass, Chrome, Copper, Gold, Silver, Stone, Wood.
- Combine textures using layering of semi-transparent textures or tiles of textures or material map files.
- Display preview of image while rendering (not available on all platforms).
- Halt and save a render part way through, and continue rendering the halted partial render later.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy (TBS) game with a fantasy theme.
Build your army, selecting, from one mission to the next one, your most experienced fighters. Fighters you did recruit among a great number of units, offering various strategic strengths and weaknesses on different terrains and against different opponents.
Fight to gain back the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir. Or use your dreaded power on undead to achieve domination on those foul mortals, or get a revenge for your glorious orcish tribe against these puny human armies who dared stealing your land... stories are waiting to be told. Or maybe you want to challenge your friends or strangers on multiplayer epic fantasy battles.
Main features:
- Build a Hero, and lead your army.
- Different races, with distinctive abilities, weapons and spells.
- GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD compatible.
Whats New in 1.2.6 Stable Release:
- WML engine
- fix [variables] not working properly in scenarios (bug #9342)
- language and i18n:
- updated translations: British English, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish
- updated DejaVuSans font to version 2.18
- user interface:
- Enable "Save Game" and "View Chat Log" menu entries in replay mode.
- Add an additional line below the minimap in the "Multiplayer->Create game"
screen that displays the size of the selected map. (patch #776 by uso)
- Show the (possibly bogus) GPV and fog settings of games with "Use map
settings" on in a darker font. (patch #771 by uso)
- misc:
- added some extra headers for the upcomming gcc 4.3 (debian bug #417764)
- added a .desktop entry for the editor so that it is shown in the kde/gnome
menu
- the unit name generation could with different locales call get_random() a
different number of times. This lead to different names and traits.
Changed to call random a fixed number of times which fixes the traits.
Whats New in 1.3.6 Development Release:
- Since 1.3.5 was a little buggy, now the new version with definatly working minimaps in the lobby. More important: long standing, translation related OOS bugs have been fixed

KTechlab is a development and simulation environment for microcontrollers and electronic circuits, distributed under the GNU General Public License.
KTechlab consists of several well-integrated components:
- A circuit simulator, capable of simulating logic, linear devices and some nonlinear devices.
- Integration with gpsim, allowing PICs to be simulated in circuit.
- A schematic editor, which provides a rich real-time feedback of the simulation.
- A flowchart editor, allowing PIC programs to be constructed visually.
- MicroBASIC; a BASIC-like compiler for PICs, written as a companion program to KTechlab.
- An embedded Kate part, which provides a powerful editor for PIC programs.
- Integrated assembler and disassembler via gpasm and gpdasm.
Main features:
- Electronic Simulation
- PIC Simulation
- Logic Simulation
- Supported Components
- Programming
- MicroBASIC
- FlowCode
- Assembly

Frameworks is stop-motion animation frame capture software primarily for Linux. It captures images from a camera and strings them together into an animation.
These still images may then be combined into a single video file using other software. Only video4linux webcams are currently supported; work is being done to add other types of digital cameras including IEEE 1394 camcorders, and USB still cameras. Frameworks is designed to be easily used alongside the GIMP Animation Package (GAP).
Frameworks began as an extension of gqcam, though it no longer shares any code with gqcam. Frameworks is free software (and therefore open source) licensed under the GNU GPL. Without gqcam being free software, Frameworks would not exist.
Main features:
- Frame averaging: The averaging together of multiple frames to reduce random noise in the captured image.
- Frame overlay or onion skinning: Overlaying previous frames ontop of the live display to assist with positioning of objects during animation.
- Continuous preview: Preview the previous few seconds of animation, ending with the live feed from the webcam to assist with object positioning.

Kaveri is an eclipse plug-in front-end for the Indus Java slicer. The project utilizes the Indus program slicer to calculate slices of Java programs and then displays the results visually in the editor.
The purpose of this project is to create an effective tool for simplifying program understanding, program analysis, program debugging and testing.
About Indus:
Indus is an effort to provide a collection of program analyses and transformations implemented in Java to customize and adapt Java programs. It is intended to serve as an umbrella for
- static analyses such as points-to analysis, escape analysis, and dependence analyses,
- transformations such as program slicing and program specialization via partial evaluation, and
- any software module that delivers the analyses/transformations into a particular application such as Bandera or platform such as Eclipse.
Enhancements:
- Minor bugfixes

Firemacs 3.6 will improve your browser's capability greatly. It is designed as a Firefox addon that adds Emacs's editing features. You can also enjoy "less"-like motions in non-input elements.