Pixie Renderer 2.02

Pixie Renderer 2.02 Screenshot Pixie is a photorealistic renderer which communicates with modelers or your application through a RenderMan - like interface.

Developer:	Okan Arikan software by Okan Arikan →
Price:	0.00
License:	Freeware
File size:	0K
Language:
OS:	Windows Vista (?)
Rating:	0 /5 (0 votes)

Pixie is a photorealistic renderer which communicates with modelers or your application through a RenderMan - like interface. Pixie is not a modeler or an animator system thus it does not have any graphical user interface at all.

The scenes you want to render are described in a text file in a language very similar to Pixar's RenderMan. Pixie also comes as a C/C++ library which you can link against your application.

Pixie Renderer features

Object instancing / delayed primitives

Displacements

Programmable shading (using RenderMan Shading Language)

High quality texture/shadow/environment mapping

High dynamic range input/output
Scalable, multi-resolution raytracing using ray differentials

Pixie now has a new raytracing engine that automatically tesselates surfaces on the fly to a desired accuracy determined using the ray differentials. This means rays tracing blurry reflections or computing global illumination are faster to trace and sharp reflections and shadows are more accurate. Pixie also contains a memory manager that keeps the memory that is used to keep these tesselations around under control. Similar to texture caching, Pixie will maintain a set of active surfaces and only those surfaces will consume raytracing memory.

Motion blur

Depth of field

Level of detail (LOD)

Reyes style rendering (very fast)

Occlusion culling

Network parallel rendering

DSO shaders
Global illumination

Pixie supports global illumination thru photon mapping and irradiance caching -- The same machinery described in the latest RenderMan interface.

Automatically raytraced smooth reflections / shadows
Caching/baking computation with LOD (bake3d / texture3d)

Using this functionality, you can save any value you compute in a shader to a file that you can later re-use. This allows you to perform expensive shading computations at a lower resolution and re-use these computations in the beauty passes. This functionality will also enable exporting shading data from Pixie into your own applications.
Scalable, multi-threaded rendering

Pixie rendering core has been first completely reorganized/optimized and then multi-threaded. We are very proud of this change. You will see significant speed improvements.
Arbirtaty output values

Pixie can save arbitrary variables (built in ones such as N, P as well as arbitrary, user defined variables) just like rgb values into images. Using this machinery, you can generate multiple outputs from a single pass and combine them as a post process.

tags you can global illumination this functionality can save using this multi threaded ray differentials pixie also scalable multi your application

Download Pixie Renderer 2.02

Download Pixie Renderer 2.02

Authors software

Pixie Renderer 2.02
Okan Arikan

Pixie is a photorealistic renderer which communicates with modelers or your application through a RenderMan - like interface.

Similar software

Pixie Renderer 2.02
Okan Arikan

Pixie is a photorealistic renderer which communicates with modelers or your application through a RenderMan - like interface.

Pixie 2.0
NattyWare

Pixie is a software designed to be a easy-to-use, fast, and small color-picker specially to fit the needs of Webmasters and designers.

K-3D 0.6.7.0
Timothy M Shead

K-3D is the free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution.

Kerkythea 1.3.04
Kerkythea Rendering System

Kerkythea application is a stand alone rendering engine.

Aeliom 1.1.2
iLuaC Software

Aeliom (el-yom) is a real-time virtual scenery generation, rendering, and exploration software.

Blender 2.43rc1
Blender3D

Blender is an open source software for 3D modeling, rendering, animation, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

Art of Illusion 2.4
Peter Eastman

Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio program for creating high quality, photorealistic still images and animations (either in .

Breeze Designer 2.0.10
Neville Richards

Breeze Designer is a free 3D modelling and design tool for Windows XP, 2, 2003, NT, and Windows 98.

NVIDIA Gelato 2. Release 1
NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA Gelato rendering software will bring high-quality rendering to the masses.

Now3D 1.29.00
Giuliano Cornacchiola

Now3D is a fully featured RayTracing program that provides several texture abilities, HyperTexture and distributed RayTracing.

Other software in this category

ASCII Generator dotNET 0.7.2
Jonathan Mathews Software

The ASCII Generator dotNET (ascgen2) is a 32-bit Windows text editor that will allow anyone to easily convert images into artwork created from text characters.