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Emma is a free, open-source platform for creating and delivering real-time 3D rich media over the internet.

Emma (Extensible Multi Media Architecture) can run as a

Standalone application
Mozilla Plugin ( for example in Firefox )
ActiveX Control ( for example in Internet Explorer )

on MS Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Emma utilizes

Lua for scripting
Ogre3D for real-time high-performance game-quality 3D rendering
AntiGrain for subpixel-perfect 2D rendering
wxLua and wxWidgets for cross-platform GUIs

With Emma, you can create 3D applications without editing and compiling executables. Emma accepts as input a very flexible declarative markup. The objects created through this markup can be edited directly by the very efficient Lua scripting engine, which is fast becoming the industry standard for real-time 3D graphics applications. Emma uses the high-performance Ogre3D engine for rendering which provides advanced rendering features. Among its many extensions, Emma also provides the content author a full set of GUI widgets through the wxLua wrapper around wxWidgets.