RetiredGypsy
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Don't want to spend $$$$$ on 3D software, or Microsoft Word, or Photoshop, or college courses, or or or? It always seems like there are openly and legally free alternatives. I've ran into quite a few that I've tried, and still use most of them.
A vector art program (scalable art that doesn't lose resolution as it shrinks or grows):
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
A free basic 3D program for drafting, modeling, architecture, spaceships, game design, comic books; it seems like it's found use everywhere:
Google SketchUp
An outline program that I just discovered. I'm having a lot of fun using it though:
Main Page - FreeMind
An alternative to Word:
OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
Another free 3D program (one that's responsible for this incredible looking short movie with a really stupid story
):
blender.org - Home
West Texas A&M's incredibly detailed math tutorials. I lived on this site right before shipping off to nuke school as a refresher course:
WTAMU - Virtual Math Lab
It seems like at least some manage to turn their free stuff into profits or the ability to continue their work through donations, sales (like Blender), or offering professional versions over their free versions (like Sketchup).
Anyone else have any that they know about?
A vector art program (scalable art that doesn't lose resolution as it shrinks or grows):
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
A free basic 3D program for drafting, modeling, architecture, spaceships, game design, comic books; it seems like it's found use everywhere:
Google SketchUp
An outline program that I just discovered. I'm having a lot of fun using it though:
Main Page - FreeMind
An alternative to Word:
OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
Another free 3D program (one that's responsible for this incredible looking short movie with a really stupid story
blender.org - Home
West Texas A&M's incredibly detailed math tutorials. I lived on this site right before shipping off to nuke school as a refresher course:
WTAMU - Virtual Math Lab
It seems like at least some manage to turn their free stuff into profits or the ability to continue their work through donations, sales (like Blender), or offering professional versions over their free versions (like Sketchup).
Anyone else have any that they know about?