Free tripod software for linux

Quantum Minigolf is nearly the same as the game minigolf - except that the ball obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.

Such a ball can be at several places at once. It can diffract around obstacles and interfere with itself. Apart from that, the rules are the same: You can play on various tracks involving various obstacles. You hit the ball with a club and try to kick it into a hole on the other side of the track.


The software

To play quantum minigolf, download the game in the download section. It is a GPLed C++ program, which has been tested under Windows and Linux. It features a simple user interface. You can add your own tracks by editing them in any image editing software and saving them in bmp format.

The hardware

There also exists a (virtually) real version of quantum minigolf. It permits to play with a real club and a ball which is projected onto the track by a video projector mounted on a 2m (6ft) high tripod. The club is marked by an infrared LED, and detected by a webcam next to the video projector. An image recognition algorithm in the quantum minigolf software computes the club position and feeds back hits into the simulation.

K-3D is the free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system for GNU / Linux, Posix, and Win32 operating systems. K-3D features a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists, and is designed from-the-ground-up to generate motion-picture-quality animation using RenderMan-compliant render engines. We strongly recommend the Aqsis render engine for use with K-3D.
K-3Ds innovative interactive tutorial system will introduce you to basic use of the program. New tutorials can easily be recorded and shared with the rest of the community.
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Main features:
- Camera: pan/tilt, zoom, dolly, modeling and tripod modes.
- Viewing Modes: Detailed selection of visible features.
- Hide / unhide geometry.
- Powerful scene graph procedual modeling with complete modeling history.
- Selection: Objects, meshes, faces, edges, patched, curves, point groups, point.
- Geometry types: Polygon, NURBS, subdivision, blobby.
- 3D Primitives: Cone, circle, cushion, cylinder, disk, grid, paraboloid, polyhedon, sphere, torus.
- Boolean modeling operations.
- Text: FreeType? support.
- Instantiation: Create duplicates without adding gemometry to the scene.
- Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) allows arbitrary dataflow - any object property can be connected to any other compatible property.
- Animate any value.
- Unlimited number of animation channels.
- Bezier curve channels.
- Animate modeling operations.
- Textures with 16-bit float bitdepth.
- Procedual RenderMan shaders.
- Full RenderMan Support: Aqsis, Pixie, BMRT, PRman, 3Delight, Render Dot C.
- Extensible support for alternate render engines and models: YafRay.
- Render OpenGL previews to disk.
- Python engine (preferred for new script development).
- K3DScript engine (minimal scripting engine for tutorials / macros).
- JavaScript engine (legacy script engine).
- Support for alternate script engine plugins and environments.
- Basic 2D compositing.
- Bitdepth 16-bit float per channel.
- Geometry Formats: AC3D, ASCII Scene Export, Apple QuickDraw?3D, AutoCad, Ayam, DirectX?, GNU Triangulated Surfaces, Quake II, PDB, RenderMan Interface Bytestream, VRML, Wavefront ... (some of them depend on PLIB installation)
- Image Formats:
- JPEG (all platforms).
- PNG (all platforms).
- TIFF (all platforms).
- OpenEXR (requires optional OpenEXR plugin).
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Enhancements:
- This release features major changes to the internal file-handling code to work correctly with files containing non-ASCII characters.
- Due to the sweeping changes needed to make this possible, this version is considered a "development" release, so users are encouraged to use this release for testing and feedback only.
- All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the 0.6 series of K-3D for its completely rewritten user interface, many new features, and significantly improved stability over 0.4.