History
Initially developed on the Amiga, the code was then ported to Silicon Graphics workstations which used the GL graphics library. At that time, the user interface was implemented using X-Window/Motif. A Linux port was released onto the internet in 1994 (the GL graphics were replaced with OpenGL). A windows port followed when the X-Window interface was dropped in favor of the portable Tcl/Tk scripting library.
In 2002 Inivis Limited purchased the full intellectual property rights to AC3D and continues to develop and market the software. They decided to keep the name AC3D for the software.
In 2005, a Mac OS X version of AC3D was released.
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