What Is Alice?
Overview
Alice is a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment for Windows
95. The goal of the Alice project is that of a public service to the
wider computing and artistic communities. Our hope is to make it easy
for novice programmers to develop interesting 3D environments and to
explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. The current version
of Alice is free to everyone and runs on computers that are commonly
available for reasonable prices.
Alice is primarily a scripting and prototyping environment for 3D
object behavior, not a 3D modeler; this makes
Alice much more like LOGO that it is like AutoCAD. The primary way of
interacting with the objects in the scene is through writing short
scripts, though while the scripts are executing, you can manipulate
objects with a mouse, move the camera around, and make objects react
to the mouse and keyboard.
Even though Alice is not a 3D modeling program, Alice does read
many common 3D file formats including VRML 1.0, DXF, and OBJ. The
Alice core distribution includes some models with more models
available on these web pages, free for downloading.
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What Comes With Alice?
Alice doesn't or require any
hardware acceleration or special input devices. All you need to run
Alice is a computer running Windows 95 and some imagination. For complete technical details for what exactly you need to use Alice, click here.
Alice image from Tenniel Illustrations in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"
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