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even cooler pulsating spheres depth of field effect! :)

this is a cool 3d depth of field demo! in a browser! neat effect

How to construct a sphere approximation to a triangle mesh.

free 3d renderer, physically accurate lighting sim.

Quoted: Indigo Renderer - A new free unbiased render engine

SecondLife acquires this company, maker of realtime atmosphere / weather / sky simulation - along with the corresponding realtime lighting.

FantasyLab seems to have a fast GI renderer with displacement mapping.

Quoted: An archive of free texture maps for use in 3D animation.

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Epic nerd Tim Sweeney interviewed by gamer nerd with too-short microphone handle. Sweeney is at the bleeding edge of game rendering architectures.

If you are tired of seeing realistic Hollywood 3D animation, this is a great 3D animation piece rendered in traditional Chinese painting style.

Besides the animation clip, you may want to check out the website that hosts that clip. 6rooms.com is the Chinese Youtube. It has tones of region specific videos. Most of the videos are in Chinese of course...