Free illusion software for linux

Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D graphics studio.

Art of Illusion combines modelling, animation, texturing and rendering in one application, with advanced features which compare favorably to those found in many commercial programs.

Art of Illusion is written entirely in Java. It should (in theory) work under any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is compatible with Suns Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4 or later.

Clorox is shared memory for AJAX applications. Clorox provides data structures that look exactly like ordinary JavaScript objects but that actually make AJAX RPC calls behind the scenes to fetch data.
Since many web applications can be thought of as viewers over structured data (grids of map cells, arrays of email messages, etc), and RPCs and callback functions are a pain, this abstraction makes writing applications much easier. Additionally, Clorox makes it simple to define data caching and prefetching policies to boost performance.
No new languages: Clorox applications are 100% JavaScript, and they play well with other toolkits.
Clorox is a new way of writing highly-interactive web applications. Its based on a single observation: that many web applications serve as viewers over structured data. Email clients display lists of messages. Mapping applications display grids of map cells. Search auto-complete applications display nodes in a trie containing completion strings. Today, such applications are often written using AJAX. Clorox argues that we can make these applications both higher performance and easier to write by exploiting the underlying logical structure of their data, a structure which is ignored by AJAX. (Note that the logical structure of the data is entirely separate from their physical representation on the server.)
In place of the asynchronous, RPC-based abstraction furnished by AJAX, Clorox provides the illusion of synchronously-accessed data structures shared between the web browser and web server, which is to say, it provides a shared memory abstraction. These data structures look exactly like ordinary JavaScript objects on the client side, allowing programmers to focus on what they do best (writing compelling web applications) without worrying about data locality, message reordering, callback functions, or data prefetching. Additionally, to free programmers from concerns over locking, Clorox allows multiple operations on these data structures to be grouped into atomic actions.
Clorox applications are 100% JavaScript: application programmers write JavaScript code which is processed by the Clorox compiler into more JavaScript. Clorox applications can thus run on any modern web browser without the need for special plugins, and your code will never be locked up in some proprietary format.
We think the best way to learn to use a new piece of software is by playing around with it, so the rest of this document will explain how to build a sample application using the Clorox system.
Enhancements:
- A small bug was fixed to correct a problem with dim() methods.
- The homepage URL was updated.

Ursus is a 3D platform game.

You play a bear cub who is seeking for his friend captured by the vile bear Arzar. You must pass trough 10 levels with different world styles.

Ursus began when I discovered The Games Factory, a long time ago, when I didnt know programming. Then I did a sequel, Ursus 2, not really better than the first, then Ursus 3 (also know as Ursus 3D), always using The Games Factory, but with 2 depth levels, to create the illusion of 3D. Ursus 4 was also using this idea, but with better graphics.

Then I did Ursus 5, the first Ursus in real-time 3D, made with Jamagic, and using a sort of cube engine, allowing you to easily create new levels.

And now, for all of you, children and adults, here is Ursus 6, using C++ programming, Irrlicht graphic engine, and Audiere library. This is also the first Ursus playable on Linux.

Pie is a lightweight content management system for Web-sharing documents, files, and arbitrary pieces of information.
Pie is just another web-based content composition and management environment using the idea of collaborate editing and sharing, an idea that has been taken to great extends lately by a crusade called Wiki.
Although so-called content management systems existed long before, employing both, proprietary as well as standardized means, the Wiki mythos pushed this effort even farther.
As with XML, another internet hype, and one that is still based many illusions upon (careless marketing strategists and clueless mortals have conventionalized XML to be one of those black magic three-letter acronyms that, if inhaled properly, is able to cook coffee, change your kids nappies and, all things considered, makes you a better human being once youve accepted it and freely offer it your untainted soul), Wikis more and more come to the publics attention and you clearly classify yourself as an outsider if you do not embrace the new technologys blessing.
A projects or ideas popularity shares its symptoms with economic growth: once it is unleashed upon the populace, grapping and holding their and all bystanders attention, it can not be stopped anymore until, of course, the climax is reached and everyone turns away, bored to death.
Nevertheless, Pie is another attempt to bore people willing to pay attention, offering its services freely and obendiently to those who are willing to accept them.
Pie has been designed to be tasty and can be served with a variety of ingredients. Basically, it serves you by gladly feeding upon your mental output, this being mostly text, but also graphics, music, programs and other intellectual property.
Before you build up your illusions right away, at the very start, it should be mentioned that Pie is unable to cook coffee. This fact cannot be stressed and overemphasized enough. Being a content management system, Pie does lots of things for you, but it certainly cant cook coffee.
If this was one of your basic requirements, you may cut off here, right now, and go for a secretary instead. (Hopefully, you didnt take this barking of your shin too seriously. Yet, it might have saved you a lot of time, if properly prepared coffee really was what you were looking for.)
Imagine, just for a moment, that youd like to collect your thoughts, on any conceivable matter. You could handle this the conventional way by writing them down in your diary. Still, you are a modern person, always having preferred to employ technology whereever you can.
Consequently, you foreclosed, of course, to make use or your PCs text processing features, thus being able to edit, cut and paste, and move around and modify your text in whatever manner and as often as you like.
Let us take this scenario one step farther: you not only want to be able to manage your thoughts at home or at work, but virtually everywhere and anytime. Sure, you can use a laptop for this purpose. However, being a social being, you want others to participate and take in (or even contribute to) your ideas - again, anytime and everywhere, as long as the participants have access to moderate 20s century technology.
You may send your data and files back and forth, using e-mail, or you could even rely on more sophisicated technology, like CVS, or you could make use of your proprietary publishing softwares distributed auto-update feature to spread your latest thoughts to remote clients, the participants, anywhere in the Net. Alternatively, you might rely on one of the Nets most accepted means: the Web.
Doing so, not only enables you to refrain from ugly, expensive, proprietary software, but also connects you, and those with whom you intend to share your intellectual propery, using a simple, standardized means.
Main features:
- Quick page processing and short run-time latency
- Low system requirements (both, in regard of the running servers performance as well as the complexity of the installed software base)
- Independent of ODBC, SQL and other database systems, both, session-based and file-based
- Multi-user support
- Page locking
- Browsable and revertable page versioning
- Local link/referer verification
- Optional (semi-)automatic page expiration
- Customizable PCRE-patterns for pages and files
- A rather extensive user manual
- Localized user interface
- Optional directory hashing to handle large amounts of files
- Small and simple code library
- Easily adaptable and extendable to personal needs
- Weighs less than 200 blocks (i. e. 100 KB), including online documentation
- Supports many common HTML directives, including tables
- XHTML 1.0 clean output
- Peachy
Enhancements:
- The code library has been completely rewritten, focusing on extendability and abstraction.
- All low-level functions have been implemented as OO classes.
- Both pages and files support an arbitrary number of versions, limited only by the capacity of the underlying file system.
- Usability has been improved.
- Most operations are selectable from drop-down menus via mouse clicks or Editing Mode.
- Editing has been fine-tuned.
- Text can be marked and, by clicking a button, applied various markup properties.

StepTalk project is the official GNUstep scripting framework. StepTalk is more than a scripting framework with an illusion of single objective environment between objects of scriptable servers or applications.
StepTalk, when combined with the dynamism that the Objective-C language provides, goes way beyond mere scripting. It is language independent - it uses languages as separate bundles.
The default scripting language in StepTalk is Smalltalk. This is because Smalltalk is a very simple language and it is easy to learn. There are just a few basic principles that the user has to know to be able to use the language and it is close to the natural language.
Smalltalk uses a similar approach to that of Objective-C, the language used in GNUstep itself.
StepTalk is a language independent framework. It can be extended by the "language bundles" providing other scripting languages. One experimental language bundle for Guile is included in the sources package.
Main features:
- multiple languages
- object finders
- scripting environments
- restrictions for objects methods
- dynamic module loading
Enhancements:
- The framework was ported to Mac OS X.
- The new StepTalking application was added.
- The StepTalkKit framework was added, and includes a new conversation window class with default context, a customizable toolbar, script history, and language selection.
- New view classes were added for custom script input/output.
- An AppKit bundle is included.
- The source was reorganized into more logical groups.
- Foundation and AppKit bundles now advertise all public Cocoa classes.
- Constants from Foundation and AppKit are generated from a simple constants list file.