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Advanced Rendering Technology, developer of the RenderDrive rendering appliance, has now made its hardware-based raytracing technology available on a PCI (peripheral component interface) card for workstations. The Pure board is based on eight of ART's AR350 raytracing graphics processors.

The AR350 chips enable the photorealistic rendering of imagery at speeds the company claims exceed those of software-based raytracing by more than 10 times. At less than $4000, the card is also a cost-effective alternative to a multi-workstation renderfarm.

Users of Alias|Wavefront's Maya and Discreet's 3ds max or Studio Viz can use ART's RenderPipe plug-ins in conjunction with Pure to render imagery within their modeling and animation applications. ART also offers a generic RenderMan interface that ...

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