Create shapes and textures of seashells and snails.
Editor: ShellyLib is a small library to Create shapes and textures of seashells and snails.
The most prominent applications using ShellyLib are the seashell custom object for The Mops/Ayam and the Shell Laboratory.

The Shell Laboratory is real fun to play with. Just drag some sliders and see your changes immediately take effect in a realtime calculated and OpenGL rendered representation of the shell!

All shells on these pages (unless stated otherwise) have been rendered with OpenGL in the Shell Laboratory.

The Shell Laboratory currently runs on Unix (Linux, NetBSD, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX tested), Win95-Vista, and MacOSX/X11.

Modeling
More than 40 parameters are available to model the shell shape. If you dislike the idea of fiddling with 40+ parameters, simply load and ADAPT one of the many provided example parameter files, containing many basic and special shell shapes.

Texturing
Using the built in texture generator you may create a texture, starting from 20 initially available patterns with over 50 parameters to adapt the texture to your needs.

Rendering
Finished with the texture, you can render the shell shape with the texture applied using GLU-NURBS and antialiasing for ultimate image quality.

Export
Finally, the shell shape may be exported to one of the following 3D file formats for inclusion in your own underwater/beach/whatever scenes: Real3D-RPL-macro, RIB (RenderMan Interface ByteStream), DXF, 3DMF (3D Metafile), Truespace (COB), POVRay (Bezier-Patches), T3D (Imagine), SCED, RAW, Web3D X3D, Wavefront OBJ. you can free download ShellyLib 2.3 now.