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RenderAnts is the first Reyes
rendering system that runs entirely on GPUs. The system takes RenderMan
scenes and shaders as input and generates photorealistic images of high
quality comparable to those produced by PRMan. It supports most basic
RenderMan features as well as a limited set of advanced features such as
shadows, motion blur and depth-of-field. RenderAnts can also run on systems
with multiple GPUs and features good scalability with respect to the number
of GPUs. By utilizing GPU’s processing power, RenderAnts can achieve more
than one order of magnitude speedups over existing CPU-based renderers.
Please refer to the technical paper
for more details. RenderAnts is free to the research
community. To obtain a copy of the source code, send
a requesting email to webmaster@renderants.org from your
university/institute email account (sorry but we will not respond to emails from free email accounts),
with the following information included: your full name, your affiliation,
and the name of your advisor if you are a graduate student. To compile the RenderAnts
source code, you need to install the BSGP package. Some test scenes
can be directly downloaded here. We would like to acknowledge Junran Mo
for artistry support. We would also like to thank the authors of RIB MOSAIC, Pixie and Elephants Dream for open source
their projects. We used their tools/data for the test scenes during the
RenderAnts project. |
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