Toxic

Toxic is a physically correct global illumination renderer aiming to produce photorealistic images and animations. Toxic`s goal is to provide artists with a free, powerful rendering tool which is actively maintained, developed and extended. Toxic is an open source project, available on SourceForge, and licensed under the GPL license. That means that: -toxic is free for commercial and non-commercial use. -toxic sources are freely available, modifiable and redistributable. -toxic sources may be used in any open source project licensed under the GPL license. Toxic`s main feature is physical correctness. toxic has been designed and developed from the ground up with physical correctness in mind. From scene specification to final rendering, all quantities are expressed in physical units. General Features:-Clean and well documented XML scene file format. -Clean and well documented XML settings file formats. -All XML files are validated against corresponding XSD schemas (which are provided). -Robust support of .obj, .ase and .tri (Link) mesh file formats. -Read/write support of several image file formats, including .bmp, .jpeg, .png, .tga and .tiff. -Built-in, on-demand mesh optimization. -Built-in, on-demand vertex normals Reconstruction with edge preservation.