Pixie
Pixie is a free,
photorealistic raytracing renderer for generating photorealistic
images.
The software is RenderMan-compliant (it reads conformant RIB,
and supports full SL shading language shaders) and is based on the
Reyes rendering architecture, but also support raytracing for hidden
surface determination.
Pixie is not a modeler or an animation system. It therefore
does not have any graphical user interface.
The scenes you want to render are described in a text file in
a
language very similar to Pixar's RenderMan. Pixie also comes as a C/C++
library which you can link against your application.
Pixel 2.2.6
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Price
Free to download
Size
9.5MB
License
GNU LGPL
Developer
Okan Arikan, George Harker, Gary Oliver &
Kirk Bailey, Bruce Walter, and others
Website
www.renderpixie.com
System Requirements
To compile:
flex / bison
libtiff
fltk
OpenEXR
Support
Sites:
Documentation
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Supports all RenderMan 3.2 primitives
- Quadrics: Sphere, Disk, Cone, Paraboloid, Hyperboloid,
Cylinder, Toroid
- Parametrics: Bilinear/Bicubic patches, NURBS
- Subdivision Surfaces including
crease/hole/interpolateboundary tags
- Points
- Curves
- Convex / Concave polygons with or without holes and their
meshes
- Object instancing / delayed primitives
- Displacements
- Raytracing
- Reyes style rendering
- Fast multi-threaded execution
- Possibility to distribute the rendering process to several
machines
- Motion blur and depth of field
- Programmable shading (using RenderMan Shading Language)
including full displacement support
- Scalable, multi-resolution raytracing using ray
differentials
- Global illumination
- Photon mapping
- Irradiance caching
- Support for conditional RIB
- Point cloud baking and 3D textures
- Point Based occlusion and color bleeding
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