Modelers

• Paul Sexton is writing a PowerMac Shareware QuickDraw3D modeler called PatchDance, which works with spline patches (no other primitives), is quite powerful, and now can export to POV-Ray format.
• Paul Rybarczek has a great Shareware Modeler/ray trace-renderer called RenderBoy, which is a lot of fun.
• Blob Sculptor, a metaball modeler, is now available for the Macintosh! With generous help from the original authors of Blob Sculptor for MSDOS, we now have a Mac OS version! Check out the web page!
• Philip Delaquess has written a powerful 3D modeler that handles POV-Ray primitives nicely, called Mondfarilo. This work-in-progress is written as as stand-alone PowerPC application, and as a Java applet.
• Paul D. Bourke has written a nice little 3D modeler called Vision3D (written long before Strata changed it's software's name), which can export meshes to 3DMF and POV-Ray.
• Pixels has a flexible commercial PowerPC NURBS modeler and animation system called PixelPutty which exports to 3DMF & DXF. A free demo is downloadable from their web site. If you are interested in this product and want POV-Ray export, feel free to e-mail Pixels and voice your interest!.
• Another example of a program supporting POV-Ray is Swiss-PdbViewer, a free molecular modelling program that can use QuickDraw3D for fast previews and generate equivalent POV-Ray scenes for high quality rendering.
• Diego Krota has a new POV-Ray Mac deformation modeler utility on his web page. It will read RAW triangle files or POV-Ray 3 scene files containing bicubic patches, and let you twist and squish the shape while it's displayed in 3-D on the screen... then save the result of course.
• Joe Strout has written a little metaball modeler called jamwhich exports to POV-Ray. Its a very early version, but it can do sphere and cylinder components. He also just came out with Meshwork which is a "3D triangle-mesh modeling program for MacOS. It is designed especially for making compact, efficient objects for use in 3D games."
• Amapi is a powerful modeler and renderer. A very interesting feature is the abilitty to export POV-Ray 3.0 scene files! It is available for Mac OS and for Windows.