This is the homepage of K3Studio. It is under construction but the project itself is in much better shape.

Author

The K3Studio

K3Studio is a universal workbench for 2d/3d modeling, visualization and simulation.

The main topic is simulation and visualization of automata networks, but it can be used for diagram drawing, flowcharting, presentation, modeling,...

News

May 01 2002 - Version 0.98 released. Changes:

Main technology keywords

KDE3, KOffice, OpenGL, Mesa3d, Python, SWIG.

About

The main focus of K3Studio is on 3d visualization of combinatorial graphs, i.e. a set of nodes connected with edges. However, it goes much further: Other highlights include: K3Studio is not, and does not want to be a clone of any commercial or free product. It does not try to be yet another 3DStudio, Visio or another "workalike".

K3Studio comes with following 19 plugins:

Screenshots

Embedded Python examples

Status

Release 0.98 is quite complete as for functionality, internal design and interfaces. It can be considered alpha.

The main things missing for 1.0 release are:

Of course _any_ contribution, interest or questions are welcomed. Many (all?) of the plugins need to be improved and actively maintained.

Motivation

I have started to write this system for simulation and visualization of automata networks, notably automatic groups. Further I am interested in visualization of lattice structures and simulation of fields on various lattices.

Building

Required, Preliminaries

Pyhon 2.x is required for building and running.

Note that K3Studio is a quite big project (it is maybe the biggest koffice application) and uses a lot of external libraries, some of which are necessary (kde3, glut, (lib)python2.0, readline) while others are optional (nurbs++, gle, libvrml97, qhull, gltt & freetype).

History

Long ago it was called Glace and I published only one release in Feb 1999. It was version 0.10 still available on http://zaboj.vse.cz.

Download

Source

The K3Studio 0.98 source k3studio-0.98.tar.gz.

The K3Studio plugin skelet source k3studio-plugin-skel-0.98.tar.gz.

Misc

X3vfb 0.10 - X virtual frame buffer server, binaries for linux/i386 and part of source. You need this to play with X server on texture x3vfb-0.10.tar.gz.