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.

crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/MP3 files under UNIX/Linux.
It is well-suited for anyone (especially the perfectionist) who seeks to make a lot of files from CDs and have them all properly labeled and professional-quality with a minimum of hassle and yet still have flexibility and full control over everything.
Current versions of crip only support Ogg Vorbis and FLAC. If you want to make MP3 files go back to the past and use crip-1.0.
Main features:
- Track grouping for automated tagging and appropriate normalization/vorbisgain on multi-track pieces.
- CDDB fetching to populate default information.
- CDDB submit to update the CDDB database with your more accurate info.
- Automates as much of the tagging as possible for fully-labeled professional quality music files.
- Automatically trims digital silence at the beginning and end of a track/group (if desired).
- European character support. Also European character-mapping support.
- Flexibility and full user control in tagging and file naming.

The RTF to HTML convertor converts RTF files (in Windows-1250 encoding) to HTML file (in ISO-8859-2 encoding).
Main features:
- Bullets
- Superscript and subscript look bad in html document.
- Subscript is transformed to number. Superscript is transformed to "[number]".
- Text: bold, italic and underline
- Footnotes
- Alignments: left, center and right. "Justify" alignment
- looks bad - program use left alignment. Centered text is greater.
- Tables
- Links: text "aaa@bbb.cz" and "http://www.aaaaaa.cz" convert
- to html links.
- Unicode: Commentary with the character
- name is added to the non ISO Latin2 characters. The program htm2htm will
- convert html with commentaries to the unicode.
- Rtf commands sa and sb.
- (sa>0) or (sb>0) New paragraph - "p" html command
- (sa=0) and (sb=0) New paragraph (left aligned text) "< br >"
Enhancements:
- Processing was fixed in the RTF commands "fldinst", "fldrslt", "plain", "bkmkstart", and "bkmend".

Archetypes project is a framework for developing new content types in Plone.
The power of Archetypes is first in automatically generating forms, second in providing a library of stock field types, form widgets, and field validators, third in easily integrating custom fields, widgets, and validators, and fourth in automating transformations of rich content.
Enhancements:
- Major bugfixes

Request Tracker (RT) is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users.
The RT platform has been under development since 1996, and is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, IT managers, developers and marketing departments at thousands of sites around the world.
Written in object-oriented Perl, RT is a high-level, portable, platform independent system that eases collaboration within organizations and makes it easy for them to take care of their customers.
RT manages key tasks such as the identification, prioritization, assignment, resolution and notification required by enterprise-critical applications including project management, help desk, NOC ticketing, CRM and software development.
RT is used by Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and development organizations worldwide.
Main features:
- RT is your organizations focal point for tracking tasks, issues, knowledge, and collaboration.
- Its easy to submit, assign, prioritize, search, escalate, and report on issues.
- RT keeps track of each tickets full history and metadata to help your organization better retain knowledge and analyze trends.
- RT can track multiple projects for multiple teams within a single installation.
- RT tracks critical system metadata, including time spent per action, due dates, and estimated time to completion.
- Its easy to record private comments that are not available to end-users.
- RTs web interface comes complete with an intuitive "iterative" search interface that allows end users to construct complex queries by pointing and clicking within their web browsers.
- Users can save and edit queries later, using their browsers "bookmarks" feature.
- Users dont need to do anything special -- they can just send email to RT. RT will take care of thanking them for their message, automatically routing it to the appropriate staff, and making sure all future correspondence gets to the right place.
- RT provides a simple, self-service interface that allows end users to view their own active and resolved tickets online.
- RTs web interface is designed to be easy to use from any browser. Just working in Internet Explorer and Netscape isnt enough. Your staff need to be able to get work done anytime, anywhere.
- Whether you use Windows, MacOS or Unix, your staff already have everything they need to access RT.
- RT works great from a handheld or screen-reader (for the blind.) Best Practical is working with users to ensure that a future release is fully compliant with Section 508 accessibility requirements.
- A powerful new command-line interface that allows power users to quickly and easily work with RT, even if theyre out of the office is currently available for testing by the public.
- Youve got customers around the world. RT lets you interact with them in their own language. Internally, RT converts all data to UnicodeTM, so you can respond to users in their native tongue, but work in yours.
- Youve got staff around the globe. RTs web interface has been fully internationalized. Right now, RT speaks English, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. Adding new languages is a breeze, if you need something RT doesnt support yet. On login, RT automatically detects which language each user prefers, so staff members can collaborate even if they speak different languages.
- Unlike costly proprietary issue tracking systems, an administrator can have a basic RT system up and running in an afternoon.
- RT is built to be useful right out of the box. You dont need expensive consultants
- Theres no client software to manage or keep up to date. Your existing web browser and email clients are all you need.
- RT is written in object-oriented perl. Not only do you get the complete source code to the product with every download, but your staff can begin customizing RT to meet your needs within hours.
- RTs web interface and mail gateway are built on top of the same API we publish for you to write your own tools on top of. The interface is documented and there are numerous third party tools to use as examples and templates.
- Every organization needs to track specialized data. RT lets you define list-based and freeform custom fields to help track your tickets. Once you create custom fields, its easy to search on them, just like RTs predefined fields.
- All of RTs mailing rules are based around a powerful custom business logic system called "Scrips." Scrips make it easy for a local administrator to make RT do ANYTHING whenever a ticket is created or updated, without making it hard to upgrade.
- RTs entire web interface is built on a flexible templating system that lets you build your own web-based tools or alter RTs look and feel to better fit your organization.
- If you dont want to radically change RTs interface, you can add your own components to RTs pages. A web callback system lets you drop miniature templates into RTs web pages.
- If you need even more power, "Code overlays" let you customize RTs internal behaviour without touching RTs core libraries.
Enhancements:
- This release includes numerous small cleanups and improvements.
- It fixes the dreaded "infinite relogin" bug.

Simple XML Configuration Library an XML library for parsing a simple configuration file format.
Simple XML Configuration Library is actively developed for *nix, Mac OS X and *BSD. The goal of the project is to provide a library that can be easily wrapped into other languages such as Python and Java.
Installation:
- run: build.sh
- run: ./configure
- run: make
- run: make install
Enhancements:
- fixed memory leak on name allocations and in Destroy

xcplay is a XMMS plugin which acts like an ncurses interface to XMMS. The UI is a clone of cplay, but using XMMS as a backend instead of console players, running either as a GUI-stripped daemon or on a virtual X server (Xvfb).

Advantages over cplay include seeking for many more formats, detachment, unlimited instances, and console player independence.

mod_dav is an Apache module to provide DAV capabilities (RFC 2518) for your Apache web server.

mod_dav currently implements a Class 1 and Class 2 DAV server. This means that it provides all the basic DAV facilities for manipulating resources (files) on the target web server, along with manipulating properties on those resources. In addition, it handles the (un)locking of resources so that clients can have exclusive access to modify resources.

This is the final, 1.0 release. It is very stable and well-tested, after its nineteen month development period. Since there is no rush to market on an Open Source product, mod_dav was not labelled as 1.0 until it really felt like a 1.0 release.

Additional patches and releases will be created for mod_dav 1.0 as problems arise. For example, mod_dav 1.0.1 was released on June 28, 2000 to fix a problem on the Win32 platform. mod_dav 1.0.2 was released in October, 2000 to improve the configuration and build process, enhance the conformance to various specifications, fix a number of bugs, and provide for operation on EBCDIC machines.

mod_dav has been incorporated directly into the Apache servers next major release -- Apache 2.0. Development of new functionality and features will be focused on Apaches DAV implementation.