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Category: Graphics

3D Illustration

13 Best Free and Open Source Ray Tracing Software

July 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images.

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3D Illustration

OSPRay – scalable and portable ray tracing engine

July 8, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

OSPRay is a scalable and portable ray tracing engine designed for high-performance, high-fidelity visualisation.

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How to Turn Old SD Videos into HD With Vmake Video Enhancer

How to Turn Old SD Videos into HD With Vmake Video Enhancer

June 24, 2026 John O'Donnell Graphics, Tutorials

Convert old SD videos to HD with Vmake AI Video Enhancer for sharper detail, cleaner upscaling, and better final results.

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Best AI Watermark Remover Tools

5 Best Free AI Watermark Remover Tools

June 22, 2026 John O'Donnell Graphics, Scientific

Compare the best free AI watermark remover tools for your own videos and images, including Zawa, AniEraser, Apowersoft, Vmake and Wink.

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Art

32 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Art

draw – simple drawing tool for the terminal

June 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

draw lets you sketch in the terminal using a mouse, with coloured characters, rectangular shapes, text insertion and saved files.

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Graphics

Trophy – terminal-based 3D model viewer

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Trophy renders OBJ, GLB and STL models directly in the terminal, with interactive navigation, textured rendering and lighting controls.

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Photo Gallery

19 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 of the most useful open source web photo gallery software.

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Family History

Fussel – photo gallery generator

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

Fussel is a photo gallery generator for people who want to publish folders of images as a polished web gallery.

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Photo Gallery

Ente – privacy-focused platform for storing personal data

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

Ente is a privacy-focused platform for storing personal data in the cloud with end-to-end encryption.

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Photo Gallery

Memories – self-hosted photo and video management application

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

Memories is a self-hosted photo and video management application for Nextcloud.

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Family History

PiGallery2 – self-hosted web application for publishing photo collections

May 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Web Apps

PiGallery2 is a self-hosted web application for publishing photo collections directly from a filesystem.

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Screen Capture

wayshot – screenshot utility for Wayland compositors

May 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

wayshot captures Wayland screens, windows, outputs, and selected regions, with clipboard integration, color picking, and image formats.

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GNOME Extensions

nsxiv – fork of sxiv

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

nsxiv is a minimalist X11 image viewer written in C. It began as a fork of the now-unmaintained sxiv

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Fractals

Fractals Explorer – real-time GPU-accelerated fractal explorer

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractals Explorer renders Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship and Newton fractals in real time with GPU acceleration and deep zooming.

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Fractals

Fractalshades – create static and interactive fractal visualisations

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractalshades creates detailed Mandelbrot and Burning Ship visualisations with arbitrary-precision deep zooming, shading and animation.

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Fractals

rsfrac – terminal-based fractal explorer

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

rsfrac is a terminal-based fractal explorer for Mandelbrot, Julia and Burning Ship sets, with precise zooming and custom rendering.

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Image showing an example of pixel artwork

Tilf – lightweight pixel art editor

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Tilf is a lightweight pixel art editor with drawing tools, adjustable zoom, grid controls, live preview and image import and export.

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Machine Learning

waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan – image upscaler and denoiser

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan upscales and denoises images on Vulkan GPUs, with model selection, batch processing, tiling and test-time augmentation.

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Pixed – touch-friendly pixel art editor

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pixed is a touch-oriented pixel art editor for Linux with project import, palettes, PNG and SVG support, and an Avalonia interface.

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