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Pixar releases RenderMan 11. (rendering).(Brief Article)
RenderMan 11 is the latest version of Pixar Animation Studios' visual effects software, which currently enjoys widespread use in film and video production. The new RenderMan features raytracing on a per-surface basis, global illumination, and deep shadows, as well as various speed and pipeline optimizations.
The addition of per-surface raytracing allows artists to better control effects such as reflections, refractions, color bleeding, and shadow penumbras, and to produce them more accurately and efficiently. For example, in a scene in which raytracing is required for a character's eyeglasses, the artist can simply raytrace the lenses rather than raytrace the scene on a global level. Pixar's Deep Shadow technology is a shadowmap format that produces realistic shadows that are especially suited to animation projects. The technology also ...
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