[Bf-committers] Blender and NVidia OPTIX

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Nvidia offers Optix as a closed framework, for their hardware only, it has a restricted distribution license. They should have the courage to Apache license it, as we did for Cycles.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
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On 14 Feb, 2015, at 9:52, Nicolas HAHN wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> (new to this mailing list :-))
> 
> I'm wondering if there is any plan to get OPTIX from NVIDIA integrated into Blender in a way or another, to provide NVIDIA hardware raytracing.
> 
> If not, would you think it might be interesting to get such feature?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Nicolas
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