Real-time 3D graphics
Real-time ray tracing features
- Ray traced primary rays
- Ray traced shadows
- Ray traced transparency
- Ray traced 3D geometry
Directly ray traced 3D geometry
- Meshes (polygonal surface with triangles and subdivision surface with patches)
- Solid primitives: box, sphere, cylinder, cone, hyperboloid and torus
- Flat primitives: triangle, quad and disc
- Constructive solid geometry
Show an image of supported 3D geometry types
Several light source types
- Point light
- Spotlight (casts ray traced shadows)
- Directional light (casts ray traced shadows)
- Skysphere (allows HDR image based lighting)
- Sphere surface light
- Cylinder surface light
- Ambient light
Physically based materials
- Open Shading Language - Artist controlled shader networks
- Lambert, Oren-Nayar, Microfacet (GGX, Beckmann), Phong, Generalized Schlick, Dielectric, Conductor, Sheen, Transparency and Layer OSL closures supported
- Alternative basic material model
Show a material with changing Fresnel reflectance and roughness
Texturing
- OpenImageIO image formats
- All material parameters can be textured
- Indirect diffuse light baked into texture
Cameras
- Perspective camera
- Orthographic camera
- Opaque / Transparent film
- Box filter
Physically based rendering
- Diffuse and specular surface reflections
- Fresnell effect
- Geometric light attenuation
- Light energy conservation
- Linear color space lighting and textures
- HDR rendering
Image quality
- Anisotropic texture filtering
- Adaptive super sampling full screen anti-aliasing
- Render quality super sampling anti-aliasing modes
Post processing
- Tone mapping
Developer Features
SDK
- Samples: Minimal (C), Infinity 3D editor (C++), Blender addon (Python and all programming languages supported by SWIG)
- Any programming language works that supports calls to a C library
- Only OSL and OIIO dependencies that are distributed with SDK in binary format and can be re-distributed
- Access to updates via GIT
Core functions
- Add / update geometry
- Add / update materials
- Add / update cameras
- Set / get transforms
- Toggle object visibility
- Render
Scene management
- Scene graph
- Scene save / load
- Camera rotate / pan / zoom
- Ray cast hitinformation
- Set / get object options
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