No 4. 3ds Max
| Developer | Autodesk |
| Latest stable version | 13.0 |
| Website | http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=13567410 |
A great help for the engineers; it helps in modeling and designing products in 3D and provides for a great platform for conceptual art making and previsualization.
No 3. Mathematica
| Developer | Wolfram Research |
| Latest stable version | 7.0.1 |
| Website | http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html |
It is a computational software for engineering, scientific and mathematical fields. Some of its features are:
- Matrix and data manipulation tools including support for sparse arrays
- Support for complex number, arbitrary precision, interval arithmetic and symbolic computation
- 2D and 3D data and function visualization and animation tools
- Numeric and symbolic tools for discrete and continuous calculus
- Multivariate statistics libraries
- Constrained and unconstrained local and global optimization
- Programming language supporting procedural, functional and object oriented constructs
- Tools for visualizing and analyzing graphs
- Data mining tools such as cluster analysis, sequence alignment and pattern matching
- Number theory function library
- Continuous and discrete integral transforms
- Import and export filters for data, images, video, sound, CAD, GIS[6], document and biomedical formats
- Technical word processing including formula editing and automated report generating
- Tools for connecting to SQL, Java, .NET, C++, FORTRAN and http based systems
- Tools for parallel programming
