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3D modeler with a fast, fully integrated ray-tracer. Some of the main features and strengths are:

Super-fast renderer, the first fully integrated interactive ray-tracer in a modeler!
- Clean, easy to use and fast user-interface (UI). EQUINOX-3D is often called "the free modeler with by far the best UI".
- Very fast and memory-efficient design. For example: thanks to some design decisions and development techniques, EQUINOX-3D starts up in ~1 second with about 75 plugins loaded
- Plugin-manager: allows you to change, re-compile and reload plugins without restarting EQUINOX-3D.
- Multiple Geometries allowed on transform nodes (much fewer nodes needed to group things, resulting in cleaner/more efficient hierarchies).
- True texture and material sharing: unlike in most other 3D packages, texture-mapping is stored on the geometries, not with the texture (no need for 'cloning' textured materials and keeping them in sync manually just because you want to map a texture differently on a different object).
- Universal, unlimited undo/redo infrastructure
- More and more modeling tools... (Context-sensitive Polygon editor, Cleanup tool etc.)
- Camera "fly-to" feature for all view-modes (3D, schematics, animation etc.).
- Fully programmable texture-mappers: just like programmable shaders, per-pixel custom texture-mappers allow you to use your own texture mapping algorithms, fully integrated into EQUINOX-3D. This allows for things like easy direct support for multiple environment-map projections to custom character-specific texture mappers.
- Full high dynamic range image support (texture) and rendering with sophisticated exposure control and direct support for angle-maps, mirror-sphere maps etc.
- EQUINOX-3D uses OpenGL, Cg and GLSL for advanced shaders