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The Ringlord Technologies Extremely Simple Java 3D Engine (xs3d) supports rendering of points (as tiny spheres), edges (connecting two points), and faces (formed by three or more edges). If any part of a compound element (edge or face) falls behind the viewer, no part of it is rendered because the engine performs z-buffer sorting and clipping at the object, rather than pixel level. Objects are drawn from the back to the front. There is no hidden surface removal.
Please note that there are plenty of 3D engines out there (Irrlicht and JMonkeyEngine, for example, or the venerable Java3D) which are to XS3D what a shining skyscraper is to a moonshiner’s rickety shack, but I’ve had need for drawing extremely simple shapes in 3D space and did not want the weight and complexity of a full-blown 3D framework, just a simple piece of code that did the job, but had no dependencies.
You, too, might like it simply for what it is, an extremely simple 3D rendering engine!
The Ringlord Technologies Extremely Simple Java 3D Engine (xs3d) is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 (or later at your option).
For the license text see the LICENSE.TXT file in the xs3d.jar archive (treat the archive as a zip file for that purpose), run the software with a -L option (“java -jar xs3d.jar -L”), or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
The sources are at GitHub (Project: xs3d): https://github.com/kuschuermann/xs3d
The command “ant jar” should do it. If that fails, here is what you need to know:
The source code is compatible with Java 1.5. Java 7 or Java 8 will probably provide better performance.
Also required (for easy rebuilding) is Apache Ant 1.7 but an earlier version of Ant may also work; you could also rebuild the software using “javac -d .build src/*.java” and then use jar to build an appropriate jar file from a manifest file and the contents of the .build/ directory. Essentially, these three commands are all you really need to build it:
mkdir .build
jar cfe odf.jar Test -C .build/ . \
-C . src/*.java \
README.text LICENSE.TXT build.xml
The included “build.xml” script builds for Java 1.7 by default but you can force compilation with Java 1.5 by using a command like “ant jar5”