BRL-CAD

The BRL-CAD Package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) based solid modeling system. BRL-CAD includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network distributed framebuffer support, image-processing and signal-processing tools. The entire package is distributed in source code form.

General Information

Overview of BRL-CAD
Hardware and OS Support
How to get BRL-CAD
Example images
Electronic mailing list
The BRL-CAD Developers
Software Repository

Technical Reports, Papers and Tutorials

Animation Techniques in BRL-CAD
Lee A. Butler, Christine Murdza
Practices and Standards in the Construction of BRL-CAD Target Descriptions
Paul H. Deitz, Keith Applin
XMGED - An X Interface to MGED
Robert M. Parker, Phillip C. Dykstra
IGES 4.0 to BRL-CAD Translator for CSG Models
John R. Anderson, Earl P. Weaver, Susanne L. Muuss
Using the Extruded-Bit-Map Solid in BRL-CAD
Lee A. Butler