BRL-CAD wiki

(As of: 21 April 2013)

BRL-CAD is a   combinatorial constructive solid  (CSG) solid ing system that includes interactive <3D > solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an  scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis.

... used in a wide range of , , and industrial </applications>, also been used in radiation dose planning, <medical ></medical> <visualization ></visualization>, <computers ></computers> <graphics ></graphics> <education ></education>, CSG concepts and modeling education, and system performance benchmark testing among other purposes.

BRL-CAD is a collection of more than 400 tools, utilities, and applications comprising more than a million lines of source code. The package is intentionally designed to be extensively cross-platform and is actively developed on and maintained for many common operating system environments including for <BSD ></BSD>, <Linux ></Linux>, <Solaris ></Solaris>, <Mac OS X ></Mac OS X>, and Windows among others. BRL-CAD is distributed in binary and source code form as <free ></free> open source software (<FOSS ></FOSS>), provided under Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license terms.

Portions licensed under the (LGPL) and  (BDL). BRL-CAD wiki uses <MediaWiki ></MediaWiki> wiki engine software, with a heavily modified <custom skin ></custom skin>.