Zhu3D

Zhu3D is an interactive OpenGL-based mathematical function viewer. You can visualize explicite functions, parametric systems and isosurfaces. The viewer supports zooming, scaling and rotating as well as filed lighting or surface properties. Special effects are animations, transparency, textures, fog and motion blur. Equation systems can be solved with a fast adaptive search.

Zhu3D provides you with up to 8 background settings, lights, wire-modes or illumination models.For picture rendering and textures all common formats are recognized. User-defined functions can have any amount of parameters, can be nested or recursive. For special purposes if-clauses and boolean operators are supported. Isosurfaces can use different volume-based algorithms.

Zhu3D runs under Linux/Unix, Windows 98-Vista and Mac OS X and is fully localized for English, German, Spanish, French and Chinese. API's like KDE, Gnome, Motif, Mac OS or Windows are supported natively. All these settings can be changed dynamically at runtime. The application comes with extended help files and a lot of examples. A precompiled and ready-to-go Windows version is available.

Hardware:

For basic viewings even a slow PC without HW-OpenGL may be sufficient. However, goddies like motion blur or animation are a challenge for every GPU. Isosurface tessellation needs a lot of power and automatically utilizes up to 16 parallel CPU-threads therefore.