Rhinoceros 3D
(Latest release - 4.0 / March 2007, Website - http://www.rhino3d.com/)
Rhinoceros (Rhino) is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates.
The software is commonly used for industrial design, architecture, marine design, jewelry design, automotive design, CAD /
Rhino specializes in free-form NURBS modeling. Plug-ins developed by McNeel include Flamingo (raytracerendering), Penguin (non-photorealistic rendering), and Bongo. Over 100 third-party plugins are also available.
Like many modeling applications, Rhino also features a scripting language based on the Visual Basic language, and an SDK that allows reading and writing Rhino files directly.
Rhino's increasing popularity is based on its diversity, multi-disciplinary functions, relatively low cost, and its ability to import and export over 30 file formats, which allows Rhino to act as a 'converter' tool between programs in a design workflow.
The Rhino file format (.3dm) is useful for the exchange of NURBS geometry. The open-source toolkit (openNURBS) is provided by the Rhino developers.
The development is on-going; version 4.0 is current with version 5.0 expected in 2009.
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