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Please Note That The Content Of This Book Primarily Consists Of Articles Available From Wikipedia Or Other Free Sources Online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Blender, Pov-ray, Modo, Lightwave 3d, Art Of Illusion, Radiance, Electric Image Animation System, Terragen, Form-z, Mental Ray, Luxrender, Kerkythea, Yafaray, Indigo Renderer, Picogen, Beast, Holomatix Rendition, Brazil R/s, Sunflow. Excerpt: Blender Is A Free Open Source 3d Graphics Application, Available Under The Gnu General Public License For The Linux, Mac Os X, Freebsd, Openbsd And Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Blender's Features Include 3d Modeling, Uv Unwrapping, Texturing, Rigging, Water And Smoke Simulations, Skinning, Animating, Rendering, Particle And Other Simulations, Non-linear Editing, Compositing, And The Ability To Create Interactive 3d Applications, Video Games, Animated Film, Or Visual Effects. More Advanced Tools Include Rigid, Realistic Body, Fluid, Cloth And Softbody Dynamics Simulation, Modifier-based Modeling, Character Animation, A Node-based Material And Compositing System, And Embedded Scripting In Python. Blender 2.4 Screenshotblender Was Developed As An In-house Application By The Dutch Animation Studio Neogeo And Not A Number Technologies (nan). It Was Primarily Authored By Ton Roosendaal, Who Had Previously Written A Ray Tracer Called Traces For Amiga In 1989. The Name Blender Was Inspired By A Song By Yello, From The Album Baby. Roosendaal Founded Nan In June 1998 To Further Develop And Distribute The Program. The Program Was Initially Distributed As Shareware Until Nan Went Bankrupt In 2002. The Creditors Agreed To Release Blender Under The Terms Of The Gnu General Public License, For A One-time Payment Of 100,000 (us$100,670 At The Time). On July 18, 2002, A Blender Funding Campaign Was Started By Roosendaal In Order To Collect Donations And On September 7, 2002 It Was Announced That Enough Funds Had Been Collected And That The Blender Source Code Would Be Released. Today...