Another sequel was also released only in Japan for the Nintendo GameCube in 2004, entitled Kururin Squash !, which became the only title of the series to feature 3D computer graphics, as well as to appear on a home console.

Around the mid-1990s, the fifth-generation home consoles, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64, began offering true 3D graphics.

* Quake is considered the killer app for hardware 3D accelerators in home computing.

* Zavalla is also home to ZavallaJack, a 3D cartoon character who made his debut in the spring of 2009 as the lead role in the YouTube video " ZavallaJack the Awakening ".

Memphis is home to the Annual Traditional Bowhunters 3D target competition.

These framebuffers were usually of a much higher quality than could be found in most home computers, and were regularly used in television, printing, computer modeling and 3D graphics.

In the 2010s, 3D television technology and Blu-ray Disc have ushered in a new era of home theater once again.

The most-advanced systems are 3D-TV-enabled home theaters making use of 3D TV sets / projectors and Blu-ray 3D players which use special glasses to aid viewers in seeing 3D movies and sporting events.

In the 2000s, developments such as high-definition video, Blu-ray Disc ( as well as the now-obsolete HD DVD format ) and newer high-definition 3D display technologies enabled people to enjoy a cinematic feeling in their own home at a more-affordable price.

Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden line removal.

Elite's open-ended game model, advanced game engine and revolutionary 3D graphics ensured that it was ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history.

It is also home to the Canadian Children's Museum, the Canadian Postal Museum, and an IMAX Theatre with 3D capacity.

These updated systems allowed home sports games to also be made in 3D.

lynda. com evolved from its original conception as a free web resource for Lynda ’ s students, to the site for her books on web design, to the registration hub for physical classrooms and conferences, to an online virtual knowledge library, where today, members may watch software and technology courses in several categories ( 3D and animation, audio, business, design, development, home computing, photography, video, and web and interactive design ).

Under the direction of producer Scott Berfield, the company became one of the earliest publishers of software for the Macintosh, publishing the seminal Chris Crawford game, Balance of Power It also published and received accolades for its innovative Macintosh adventures developed by Icom Simulations Deja Vu and The Uninvited and the first 3D game for home computers, David A. Smith's " The Colony ".

Although games using older engines continued to appear for a few years, the 3D accelerator boom in the mid-90's meant that for the first time true 3D engines could be run on home PCs, and free mouse look would rapidly become essential and standard in almost every 3D game.

Company executives planned for the project to bring SNK into the new era of 3D gaming that had arisen during the mid-1990s, and had planned for a corresponding home system to replace the aging and expensive AES home console.

The Hyper Neo Geo 64 was conceived to usher SNK into the 3D era as well as to provide the hardware basis for a home system that would replace their aging Neo Geo, one that SNK hoped would be capable of competing with Saturn, Sony's PlayStation, Jaguar and the Nintendo 64 as well as systems such as the REAL / 3DO and Phillips CD-i.

Unlike the arcade version, several of these versions inspired a sequel, Paperboy 2 for several home systems ( Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, ZX Spectrum ), and a 3D version for the Nintendo 64 called Paperboy 64.

The software supports both 2D and 3D formats.

However, there are resources available that facilitate this process by offering free instructions on how to draw a 3D beading diagram using free software available from inkscape. org, in the hopes that clearer beading diagrams will allow easier access to 3D beading patterns.

In 1989, Autodesk, an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software, developed a virtual design system called Cyberspace.

The source code to the Duke Nukem 3D v1. 5 executable, which uses the Build engine, was released as free software under the GPL on April 1, 2003.

* Freestyle ( software ), a renderer for non-photorealistic line drawing from 3D scenes

In real-time 3D graphics, the diffuse inter-reflection component of global illumination is sometimes approximated by an " ambient " term in the lighting equation, which is also called " ambient lighting " or " ambient color " in 3D software packages.

The lead programmer for Id Software is John Carmack, whose skill at 3D programming is widely recognized in the software industry.

In software packages that support animation, especially 3D graphics packages, there are many parameters that can be changed for any one object.

DJ digital controllers may be standalone units such as the Faderfox or the Allen & Heath Xone 3D, or may be integrated with a specific piece of software, such as Traktor or Scratch Live.

It supports pure software rendering as well as providing hardware acceleration for several 3D graphics cards under Linux.

Python has been successfully embedded in a number of software products as a scripting language, including in finite element method software such as Abaqus, 3D animation packages such as Blender, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Houdini, Maya, modo, MotionBuilder, Softimage, the visual effects compositor Nuke, and 2D imaging programs like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus and Paint Shop Pro.

Some real-time software 3D engines based on ray tracing have been developed by hobbyist demo programmers since the late 1990s.

The OpenRT project includes a highly optimized software core for ray tracing along with an OpenGL-like API in order to offer an alternative to the current rasterisation based approach for interactive 3D graphics.

All scaling, rotation, and 3D operations are performed in software on the SH2 processors.

Sega's 32X effort lacked the software titles and 3D capabilities the gaming community demanded ; the add-on technology represented a dead end, ultimately punishing early adopters.

In a few cases it may be possible to use a video stream that was already previously compressed such as MPEG or H. 264 video, but many graphical programs such photo editors, 3D drawing programs, and animation tools require high-detail uncompressed bitmaps to be displayed in order for the software to be used effectively.

So, along with the advanced software 3D renderer, Unreal was built to take advantage of the 3Dfx Glide API, which emerged as the dominant interface towards the end of the game's development.

Current computer-aided design software packages range from 2D vector-based drafting systems to 3D solid and surface modelers.

* 3D computer graphics software

* Comparison of 3D computer graphics software

Along with these, already traditional, methods recent expansion of corporate use of Second Life and other virtual worlds led to development of a newer generation of software that takes advantage of a 3D data presentation.

Some of this software ( 3D Topicscape ) works independently from virtual worlds and simply uses 3D to support user " in concept creation, planning, organization, development and actualization ".