Introduced in 1985, MacDraft was one of the first object-oriented drawing programs for the Mac. It enjoyed early success with architects and designers, and at one time, it claimed a majority of the Mac CAD market. But the rapid evolution of 2-D CAD,...

Rayshade is a program for creating ray-traced images. It reads a description of a scene to be rendered and produces a colour image corresponding to the description. Rayshade was designed to make it easy to create nice pictures. It was also meant to...

Virtus WalkThrough is a powerful modeling and visualization package lhai takes the concept of virtual reality from esoteric experiment to practical tool. Virtual reality makes it possible to explore worlds and interiors dial exist only in the mind...

Spline-based drawing tools — revolutionary in their time for flexibly articulating two-dimensional curves with a minimum of mathematical description — produced a similar revolution when they were adapted for three-dimensional...

When we first reviewed Pixels:3D at version 3.0, we thought it had enormous promise. Its unique shading and scripting abilities impressed us; however, some odd, cumbersome interface choices held it back. Pixels:3D 3.6 has shed much — though...

Carrara Studio 2 German Hybrid (No electronic manual included) SN: RF20CRD-0000206-ZQQ

Among 3-D-design packages, StrataVision 3d is a standout for high-quality photo-realistic rendering. Version 2.0 added an elegant rendering interface and plug-in extensions that provide an almost unlimited upgrade path. With version 2.5, the most...

An image sequencing and viewing utility for Maya for Mac OS X