Rui CarmoI spent far too much time doing 3d graphics to get me through college (it was tremendous fun but I fortunately had the good sense not to make a career out of it).
These days I spend a lot of my free time in CAD software (including Blender and OpenSCAD), so those years were a great learning experience that has really paid off.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10 | OpenDLSS-NR | Vulkan reimplementation of NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, with a separate browser WebGPU port; requires user-supplied model weights | |
| 3D Mouse Drivers | 2026-10 | Axial | Open-source macOS 3Dconnexion driver and local integration service with Client API, HID listener and application navigation APIs |
| SpacePilot Windows | Open-source Windows driver for 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse, SpacePilot and SpaceExplorer devices, with navigation support and a local integration API | ||
| Gaussian Splats | 2025-12 | NullSplats | An app to generate Gaussian splats from casual captures |
| Modeling | 2016-08 | Blender | free, does just about anything, has a bazillion plugins for everything |
| Wings 3D | free, has POV-Ray export | ||
| Ray-Tracers | 2016-08 | POV-Ray | the one application I spent more CPU time running, easily, during my entire lifespan |
| Yafray | free, supports distributed rendering | ||
| Rendering | 2026-10 | Filament | Cross-platform real-time physically based rendering engine, with C++, Android and JavaScript APIs and OpenGL, Metal, Vulkan, WebGPU and WebGL backends |
| Tools | 2026-08 | desktop-fly | 3D fruit fly desktop simulation driven by the FlyWire connectome |
| picophysics | physics simulation project with interactive examples |