Mandelbulber 1.09

Mandelbulber is an experimental application that helps to make rendering 3D Mandelbrot fractals much more accessible.
A few of the supported 3D fractals: Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, BulbBox, JuliaBulb, Menger Sponge, Quaternion, Trigonometric, Hypercomplex, and Iterated Function Systems (IFS). All of these can be combined into infinite variations with the ability to hybridize different formulas together.

Mandelbulber is released under an Open Source Licence (GNU GPL license) , and is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

More info and download at www.mandelbulber.com

openfootage.net

You have a 3d object, but now you need just the right background to put it in?

openfootage.net offers background ressources for free. These include HDRI, panorama, textures and time-lapse animations.

More information on www.openfootage.net

TreeSketch 2.0

TreeSketch is a interactive tree modeler for the iPad from Steven Longay.
You can paint a tree, define contours, grow trees, manipulate branches  and adjust global branch-parameters of the tree later.
TreeSketch exports 3D models to .FBX so they can be used by all major rendering applications or viewed using Quicktime.

TreeSketch is, of course, free and available at the App Store here.


TreeSketch 2.0 - Promo Video from Steven Longay on Vimeo.

Texturecase

Texturecase is a website that offers free textures in many categories.
You can download 15 MB of textures for free every day and if you upload textures to the portal you can extend your download traffic.
Categories are:
Waste,Concrete, Ground, Roof, Food, Colour, Rock, Window, Tiles, Building, Glass, Heaven, Wood, Artificially, Marble, Masonry, Man, Metal, Nature, Paper, Paving Stone, Plastic, Shine, X-ray image, Shield, Other, Stone, Street, Textiles, Animal, Door, Ornaments, Water, Fence

More infos on www.texturecase.com

SketchUp 8 M2

Google has released the second maintenance release M2 for SketchUp 8.

New in SketchUp 8 M2:

• About 150 performance tweaks and bug fixes
• Better Ruby Script Installation
• Mac OS 10.7 Compatibility

More info about the M2 release on www.sketchupdate.blogspot.com

SketchUp 8 M2 is available for download in 12 languages on sketchup.google.com

Unity 3.4.2

Unity 3D is a game development tool that is also available in an free version.
Unity consists of both an editor for developing/designing content and a game engine.

You can develop games for PC & Mac, iOS, Android, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, web players and flash from one source.
Unity Spring 2010 Highlight Reel from Unity3D on Vimeo.

For more information visit: http://unity3d.com

Virtual 3D insects

Alexei Sharov has a website with 16 free 3D models of insects in VRML format.
You can get 3d ants, flies, mosquito and more

More information and download on http://home.comcast.net/~sharov/3d/virtual.html