FTGL: Projects using FTGL

FTGL 2.4.0

Projects using FTGL

To add your project to this list, please contact one of the FTGL developers at http://sf.net/projects/ftgl

Projects are listed in alphabetical order.

# FTGL language bindings

## FTGL#

FTGL# (http://www.paskaluk.com/projects.php) is a collection of .NET bindings for FTGL.

## GlGuiA

GlGuiA (http://sourceforge.net/projects/glguia/) is a set of packages for Ada 2006 that can be used to create Graphical User Interfaces, relaying (almost) only on OpenGl. Hence should be rather platform-independant.

## FTGL

Haskell FTGL (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/FTGL) is a Haskell binding interface to FTGL.

## Ruby FTGL

Ruby FTGL# (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-ftgl/) is a collection of Ruby bindings for FTGL.

## PyFTGL

PyFTGL (http://code.google.com/p/pyftgl/) wraps the functionality of FTGL into a Python module so that it can be used in conjunction with PyOpenGL.

## Tcl3D

Tcl3D (http://www.tcl3d.org) offers the 3D functionality of OpenGL and other 3D libraries (including FTGL) at the Tcl scripting level.

# Projects currently using FTGL

## Agent World

Agent World (http://code.google.com/p/agentw/) provides tools for simulating and visualizing multi-agent systems and is specially designed for testing machine learning applications (and specially focused on Case Based Reasoning ones). It includes support for representing information using the Feature Term formalism, and provides a series of relational machine learning algorithms that can deal with them. The whole project is created in C++ to maximize efficiency, and uses OpenGL as the visualization library to ensure cross-platformness.

## Amaltheia

Amaltheia (http://home.gna.org/amaltheia/) is a cross-platform game programming API that supports two backends, OpenGL and DirectX. The aim of the Amaltheia project is to create an intuitive and simple to use library, providing core 3d and 2d functionality in a platform independent manner. It also provides platform independence regarding basic network functions, input handling, threads and sound. Currently the GNU/Linux and the Windows OSes are supported.

## Armagetron Advanced

Armagetron Advanced (http://www.armagetronad.net/) is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron. It's an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots. For the more advanced player there are new game modes and a wide variety of physics settings to tweak as well.

## Audicle

Audicle (http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/) is an audio programming environment that integrates the programmability of the development environment with elements of the runtime environment. The result is a duct-taped intersection of a concurrent smart editor, compiler, virtual machine, and debugger.

## Battlestar T.U.X.

Battlestar T.U.X. (http://code.google.com/p/battlestar-tux/) is a top-down scrolling shooter project.

## BJS

BJS (http://bjs.sourceforge.net/) is a funny arcade 3D multiplayer tank battle. It is fuly playable and very fun in multiplayer. Of course the single player is also possible. There is no story. You just get a tank and go shoot other players. Currently there are 5 different tanks, 6 maps, 9 powerups and 4 weapons.

## Blender

Blender (http://blender.org/) is an integrated 3d suite for modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback (games).

## Breve

Breve (http://www.spiderland.org/) is a free, open-source software package which makes it easy to build 3D simulations of multi-agent systems and artificial life. Using Python, or using a simple scripting language called steve, you can define the behaviors of agents in a 3D world and observe how they interact. breve includes physical simulation and collision detection so you can simulate realistic creatures, and an OpenGL display engine so you can visualize your simulated worlds.

## BZFlag

BZFlag (http://BZFlag.org/) is a 3D multi-player multiplatform tank battle game that allows users to play against each other in a network environment.

BZFlag uses FTGL as of version 2.99.

## Capture The Flag

Capture The Flag (http://capturetf.sourceforge.net/) is an open source, multi-platform, network game project.

## Cello

Cello (http://common-lisp.net/project/cello/) is a project to create an open-source, industrial-strength, portable GUI toolkit for Common Lisp. Its features include anti-aliased fonts, accelerated 2d- and 3d-graphics, a standard set of GUI widgets, easy construction of new widgets, and much more. Cello heavily utilizes Cells (a sister project on common-lisp.net), in addition to industry-standard technologies such as OpenGL, FreeType, and ImageMagick.

## Chimera

Chimera (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/) is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated.

## Cinepaint

Cinepaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/) is a deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools.

## Duel

Duel (http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sir03me/play/code.html) is a small overhead perspective spaceship game.

## EMAN2

EMAN2 (http://blake.bcm.tmc.edu/eman/eman2/) is a suite of scientific image processing tools aimed primarily at the transmission electron microscopy community.

## EMAN2

Empty Clip (http://emptyclip.sourceforge.net/) is a top-down 2D Action RPG.

## Freebox

Freebox (http://freebox.sourceforge.net/) is designed for use in a special type of computer called an 'HTPC', which is connected to a home-theatre system to watch XviD/DivX/DVD movies, play music (MP3, CD, whatever), play some emulated games, or whatever else you want to do with it.

## Gem

Gem (http://gem.iem.at/) is a loadable library for puredata, which adds OpenGL graphics rendering and animation to Pd. Pd is a graphical programming language and computer music system.

## GLMayan

GLMayan (http://glmayan.sourceforge.net/) is an OpenGL screensaver.

## Glover

Glover (http://code.google.com/p/glover/) is a movie player that renders the content using openGL allowing all kinds of special effects using fragment shaders. The movie decoding is done using ffmpeg.

## Ivf++

Ivf++ (http://ivfplusplus.sourceforge.net/) is a C++ library encapsulating OpenGL functionality. The primary goal is to make it easier to use the OpenGL library in interactive 3D applications. The second goal is extendibility, providing a set of well defined base classes for different object types to build new classes on. The third goal is portability, primarily between Linux and Windows, but the library should also be easily ported to Mac OS X.

## Jahshaka

Jashaka (http://jahshaka.org/) is an advanced video editing, animation, visual effects, painting and music tool.

## Karaoke FX

Karaoke FX (http://jeanchristophe.duber.free.fr/karaokefx/) is a midifile player that can display lyrics in synch whith the sound so as it can be used for karaoke. It relies on plugins for midi output devices as for lyrics display.

## Libinstrudeo

Libinstrudeo (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libinstrudeo), initially written for the ScreenKast program, provides the necessary logic to capture screen recordings and to process them. Includes a soap-client for the webservice at captorials.com that enables you to share your recordings.

## Light Speed!

Light Speed! (http://lightspeed.sourceforge.net/) is an OpenGL-based program which illustrates the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects. When an object accelerates past a few million meters per second, these effects begin to grow noticeable, becoming more and more pronounced as the speed of light is approached. These relativistic effects are viewpoint-dependent, and include shifts in length, object hue, brightness and shape.

## MySQL GUI Tools

MySQL GUI Tools (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html) is a collection of tools for the MySQL database. It consists of MySQL Administrator, MySQL Query Browser and MySQL Migration Toolkit.

## OctPlot

OctPlot (http://octplot.sourceforge.net/) is a graphics package for Octave, the free alternative to MATLAB. It provides high quality PostScript and on-screen graphics.

## Open ActiveWrl

Open ActiveWrl (http://open-activewrl.sourceforge.net/) is a software development toolkit based on a generic software development approach that allows the implementation VRML/X3D browser componentes. These browser components can run within an conventional application or can be linked together for the implementation of parallel immersive VR setups.

## OpenEaagles

OpenEaagles (http://www.openeaagles.org/) is a multi-platform simulation framework targeted to help simulation engineers and software developers build robust, scalable, virtual, constructive, stand-alone, and distributed simulation applications. It has been used extensively to build applications that demand real-time performance. This includes applications to conduct human factor studies, operator training, and the development of complete distributed virtual simulation systems. OpenEaagles has also been used to build stand-alone and distributed constructive applications oriented at system analysis.

## OpenGC

OpenGC (http://www.opengc.org/) is a multi-platform, multi-simulator, open-source C++ tool for developing and implementing high quality glass cockpit displays for simulated flightdecks.

## OpenSG

OpenSG (http://www.opensg.org/) is a portable scenegraph system to create realtime graphics programs, e.g. for virtual reality applications.

## Panthera

Panthera (http://sourceforge.net/projects/panthera) is a C++ framework for interactive visualization, manipulation, and editing of volume data. Applications developed on top of Panthera can utilize both desktop and immersive user interface devices, such as position trackers and haptic displays.

## Planet Penguin Racer

PlanetPenguin Racer (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ppracer/) is a simple OpenGL racing game featuring Tux, the Linux mascot. The goal of the game is to slide down a snow- and ice-covered mountain as quickly as possible, avoiding the trees and rocks that will slow you down.

## projectM

projectM (http://projectm.sourceforge.net/) is a music visualizer which uses OpenGL for hardware acceleration. It is compatible with Milkdrop presets.

## Puzzle Bobble 3D

Puzzle Bobble 3D (http://homepage.mac.com/eric.lee/puzzle/) is a 3D video game for Linux. The game is similar to Tetris/Connect 4: connect balls of the same colour to make them disappear. Puzzle Bobble 3D is based on an already popular arcade game of the same name by Taito Corporation (see links section at the bottom of this page), but this particular variant is played in a 3D environment (hence the name).

## ROOT

ROOT (http://root.cern.ch/) is an object-oriented data analysis framework.

## SCIRun

SCIRun (http://software.sci.utah.edu/scirun.html) is a Problem Solving Environment (PSE), for modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific problems. It is available for free and open source.

## TINE

TINE, or TINE Is Not ELITE (http://tine.sunsite.dk/en/index.html) is an open source cross-platform remake of the classic space adventure game ELITE.

## Tiny Planet

Tiny Planet (http://www.duberga.net/tinyplanet/) is a real-time OpenGL viewer of detailled earth texture such as BlueMarble from Earth Observatory (NASA) or any other planet texture. Vectorial data such as points of interest, boundaries, rivers can be superimposed to the texture.

## Truevision

Truevision (http://truevision.sourceforge.net/) is a 3D modeler for GNOME.

## Tulip

Tulip (http://tulip.labri.fr/) is a system dedicated to the visualization of huge graphs. It is capable of managing graphs with up to 500,000 nodes and edges on relatively modest hardware (eg. 600MHz Pentium III, 256MB RAM).

## Ubit

Ubit (http://www.infres.enst.fr/~elc/ubit/) Ubit is a new GUI toolkit that combines the advantages of scene graph and widget based toolkits. The Ubit3D extension makes it possible to display 2D GUIs in a 3D space.

## VRS

The Virtual Rendering System (http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/vrs/) is a computer graphics software library for constructing interactive 3D applications. It provides a large collection of 3D rendering components which facilitate implementing 3D graphics applications and experimenting with 3D graphics and imaging algorithms.

## VTK

VTK, the Visualization Toolkit (http://www.vtk.org/), is an object oriented, high level library that allows one to easily write C++ programs, Tcl, Python and Java scripts that do 3D visualization.

## XLock

XLock (http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlockmore.html) is a screensaver and screen locking utility with additional OpenGL and XPM modes.

# Projects that used to use FTGL

## GNU Backgammon

GNU Backgammon (http://www.gnubg.org/) was using FTGL until version 0.14.3+20060520-1.

## OpenSceneGraph

OpenSceneGraph (http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg) is an open source high performance 3D graphics toolkit, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modelling. Written entirely in Standard C++ and OpenGL it runs on all Windows platforms, OSX, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP-Ux, AIX and FreeBSD operating systems.

## Teddy

Teddy (http://teddy.sourceforge.net/) was a 3D graphics library. The main purpose was to be a simple scene graph manager.

## VigiPac

VigiPac (http://vigipac.sourceforge.net/) was a three-dimensional Pacman clone with multiplayer support, written in the C++ language.