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News Release from: ARTVPS | Subject: Pure and RenderDrive
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 May 2003
Software upgrades speed 3D visualisation
ART VPS demonstrated the latest software update for its Pure and RenderDrive 3D rendering devices at the recent 3D Festival in Copenhagen.
ART VPS demonstrated the latest software update for its Pure and RenderDrive 3D rendering devices at the recent 3D Festival in Copenhagen Pure and RenderDrive are the only hardware-rendering solutions to support ray tracing and secondary illumination
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Specifically, weighted frame splitting, support for the built-in radiosity in 3dsmax/Viz, and support for Maya5 underscore the additions in this software release.
In testing, Pure and RenderDrive demonstrated a substantial rendering speed advantage over software rendering with 3dsmax and Viz for scenes including radiosity.
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Once lighting fixtures had been translated to those optimised for Pure and RenderDrive, speed improvements of up to 80x were seen as rendering times fell from 4h to just 3min.
The inclusion of support for radiosity precalculations in 3dsmax and Viz means that Pure and RenderDrive now offer two routes for calculation of secondary illumination: in software using 3dsmax/Viz or in hardware with ART VPS's RP-SSI shader (available in 3dsmax, Viz and Maya).
The addition of frame-splitting for Pure and RenderDrive will enable studios with more than one rendering device to dramatically reduce the latency of still-frame rendering - further extending the speed advantage Pure and RenderDrive deliver to quality-conscious 3D professionals.
Splitting a high-resolution image across two RenderDrive devices resulted in a 40% speed reduction.
Similar advantages were seen for Pure, and images can be split across any number of ART VPS rendering devices.
For ART VPS customers, who produce ultra-high-resolution images, this delivers a dramatic timesaving.
Uniquely, a user can specify the weighting of each rendering device - closely controlling the rendering workload assigned to each Pure or RenderDrive unit - allowing the use of each rendering device to be maximised within each individual production studio.
Pure is available for Windows platforms priced at GBP 2499 and includes RenderPipe interfaces for 3dsmax, Viz and Maya.
RenderDrive RD3500 and RenderDrive RD5000 are available for Windows and Irix platforms.
RenderDrive pricing starts at GBP 12,000 and includes site-wide licences for all RenderPipe interfaces.
The AV2 software update will be available at the end of May 2003.
It will ship with all new Pure and RenderDrive shipments and is provided automatically to all users with ART VPS Subscription Programme membership.
ART VPS products are available through a network of international resellers.
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