Overview

Extreme Wave is an ambitious project to create a feature rich, extensible 3D modeling environment. I started writing Extreme during the summer of 1998, because I wanted a free 3d modeller to use in my computer animation classes. Extreme Wave currently emphasizes povray export for scene rendering, but support for other formats is planned. Extreme Wave will eventually include a native ray tracer as well.

I am releasing Extreme Wave in it's current alpha/beta state in hopes of finding other people that are interested in helping Extreme Wave's development in various capacities. If you are interested in writing code (c, c++, or scheme), writing documentation, designing interfaces or just beta testing features, you can join the Exteme Wave mailing list to get involved.

News

Implemented Features

• Written in portable ISO c / c++.
• Graphics are rendered with Mesa / OpenGL.
• The user interface is implemented with Fltk and Fluid.
• Guile is used as the primary extensibility language.
• Uses a procedural database similar to the Gimp. This should make it easy to build scripting language bindings.
• A guile-fltk language binding was developed specifically for Extreme Wave, so that large portions of the user interface can be written in Guile and can be customized by the end user.
• New object types can be written in c++ (in the future, they should be dynamically loadable plugins).
• Uses an IFF-like file format.
• Development is being done concurrently on SGI Irix, and Intel Linux.
• Primitives: spheres, cubes, cylinders, cones, and capsuls.
• Lights: point, spot, cylindrical, area
• Multiple Cameras
• Multiple configurable view ports
• A highly configurable grid system
• Key framed animation with KB-Splines
• POVray file export (with animation)
• Released under the GPL

Requirements

• Mesa or OpenGL
• Fltk 1.0.6 ( download )
• Guile 1.3.2 ( download )

CVS

Here are the instructions on how to use CVS.

Downloads

ewave-0.4.0.tar.gz
ewave-0.3.0.tar.gz
ewave-0.2.1.tar.gz

Documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Developer Information
• How to write procedural database functions
• guile-fltk Information
• TODO / my wish list

Mailing List

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Screen Shot Log

• (06.18.99) screen shot (jpg)
• (03.19.99) screen shot (jpg)
• (03.08.99) screen shot (png)
• (02.12.99) file format (txt)
• (12.04.98) screen shot (png)
• (11.20.98) file format (txt)
• (11.18.98) animation (mpeg)
• (09.30.98) screen shot (png)
• (09.09.98) file format (txt)
• (09.06.98) screen shot (png)
• (08.05.98) screen shot (png)
• (07.22.98) screen shot (png)

My screen shot log is a graphical log of Extreme Wave's functionality, and the development direction it has been taking. I use these screenshots to benchmark my progress. The older screenshots are obviously not indicative of what Extreme Wave looks like. :-)

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