Photonyx Viewer - Here's
a cutting-edge image viewer that offers a wealth of
powerful features. Handles any type of image file you can
throw at it and offers many helpful features, such as the
ability to define and play your own custom slide shows.
You can also quickly scroll, zoom and pan images and even
use it to calibrate your CRT monitor. 2.4 megabytes.
(For Windows 98/95 and NT).
IrfanView32 - Great
freeware graphics viewer from Bosnia. We use this as our
system's default image viewer and converter because it
loads quickly, is easily customizable, has Drag &
Drop support and supports many file formats: JPEG and GIF
files, as well as BMP, RLE, DIB, PCX, PNG, TGA, RAS,
TIFF, ICO, AVI, WMF and more. IrfanView was the first
graphics viewer to offer animated GIF support. Offered in
English and German versions. This file is 312 kilobytes in
size. (For Windows 95/98).
Rick's
Planet PlanetView - A
good free image file viewer that's packed with helpful
features. Offers a VCR style interface, with toolbar
buttons, sizable directory list and more. PlanetView also
offers image conversion and TWAIN image capture. Also
supports many image types: GIF, JIF, JPG, BMP, TGA, DIB,
RLE and PCX files. (For Windows 95/98/NT). 1.1 megabytes.
POV-Ray Free Graphics
Tool - POV-Ray (the
Persistence of Vision Raytracer) is a high-quality, free
program for creating amazing 3-D graphics. Has a steep
learning curve, but is worth the time you invest in it,
if you're serious about learning about ray-traced
graphics. Available for Windows, DOS, Macs, Linux, SunOS
and Amiga.
ShoeString's PictureDicer - This is a freeware tool that chops any image
file into several smaller images, suitable for creating
mouseover effects and pseudo-imagemaps on Web pages. It
also generates the HTML for a table to contain the
partial images and display them so they appear as the
original uncut image.
Minos: a free CAD program - A very well-done freeware CAD program from
France (offered in French & English) that offers lots
of goodies, including 3D features, such as cylinders,
pipes, pockets, a snapshot function, and more. Here's a screenshot. For Windows.
Freeware themes
installer - OK,
here's the deal. You've been checking out all these cool
free desktop themes for Windows 95 that are all over the
Web, such as here.
And you wish you could install them on your machine, but
you don't want to purchase Microsoft Plus! Well, here's
the solution. Free Themes is a freeware program that will
load themes without the Plus! program. If you feel
guilty, go ahead and send Bill Gates a check. You don't need
this program if you have Win 98 (it has a built-in theme
installer).
Free
Graphics Tools - This
site offers various free studio IPAS (Ixps, Axps, Pxps
and Sxps), including tools such as "3D Studio,"
filters for animated special effects and "Grad,
ripple, bub and pat."
NVR
BorderMania free filters - This site offers free plug-in filters for
graphics editing programs including the popular shareware
program, Paint Shop Pro. All of these filters are designed
to create a variety of basic borders around images and
are particularly well suited to creating buttons for Web
pages.
Alice - Are you interested in 3D graphics,
but find the whole process too involved and complicated
for a novice? Then check out Alice. It's a 3D
"Interactive Graphics Programming Environment."
The goal of Alice is to make it easy for novice
programmers to develop interesting 3D environments.
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