Alice is a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment for Windows 95/98/NT built by the Stage 3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. The Alice project is a public service to the wider computing and artistic communities; our hope is to make it easy for novices to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. The current version of Alice authoring tool is free to everyone and runs on computers that are commonly available for reasonable prices. Worlds created in Alice can be viewed and interacted with inside of a standard web browser once the Alice plug-in has been installed.

The newest version of Alice, known as Alice99, includes the Teddy modeler, developed by Takeo Igarashi of the University of Tokyo, a program that allows the creation of 3d hierarchical models using simple 2d mouse strokes.  Coupled with AlicePaint, users can quickly make their own objects in the creation of 3d worlds.

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