There is a huge range of open source software available to create, modify and convert 2D and 3D computer graphics. In the field of animation, we make these recommendations.
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Category: Graphics
dibuja – simple to use paint program
dibuja is a simple to use paint program like Paintbrush for Mac or classic MS Paint, but for Linux.
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Alchemy – non-orthodox painting software
Alchemy is non-orthodox painting software experimenting with alternative ways of drawing.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Photo Geotagging Tools
This article picks the finest photo geotagging tools. All of the software featured is free and open source goodness.
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voidsprite – pixel art editor
voidsprite is a sprite editor that’s in an early stage of development.
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Photoflare – cross-platform image editor
Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor with an aim to balance between powerful features and a very friendly graphical user interface.
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F3D – fast and minimalist 3D viewer
F3D is 3D viewer desktop application which supports many file formats, from digital content to scientific datasets.
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PyDPainter – pixel art paint program
PyDPainter, pronounced “Pied Painter” (like Pied Piper), is an attempt to create a usable pixel art program.
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Drawpile – draw, paint, sketch and animate
Drawpile is a collaborative drawing program that lets multiple people draw, sketch, paint and animate on the same canvas simultaneously.
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img2ascii – command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art
img2ascii is a command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art.
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Diagon – transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation
Diagon is an interactive interpreter. It transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation.
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pik – terminal-based colour picker
pik is a color picker for the terminal.
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Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal
Textual Paint is a TUI (Text User Interface) image editor, inspired by MS Paint.
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BlockPaint – terminal-based painting tool
BlockPaint is a painting program that allows you to draw pixel graphics in the terminal using the mouse.
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Artem – convert images to ASCII art
Artem is a small cli program to easily convert images to ascii art, named after the Latin word for art.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Image Processing Libraries
In this article we recommend the finest image processing libraries. All free and open source goodness.
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SimpleITK – image analysis toolkit
SimpleITK is an image analysis toolkit with many components supporting general filtering operations, image segmentation and registration.
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Mahotas – library of fast computer vision algorithms
Mahotas is a library of fast computer vision algorithms (all implemented in C++ for speed) operating over NumPy arrays.
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scikit-image – collection of algorithms for image processing
scikit-image is an image processing library implementing algorithms and utilities for use in research, education and industry applications.
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picopt – multi format lossless image optimizer
picopt is a multi format lossless image optimizer that uses external tools.
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