[Bf-funboard] GPU accelerated rendering

Bart bart at neeneenee.de
Tue Oct 19 12:49:25 CEST 2004


Here is another interesting thing about GPU rendering:

Nvidia Gelato
http://film.nvidia.com/page/gelato.html


Bart wrote:

> 
> Hey this would be amazing!!!
> 
> car wrote:
> 
>> Oh wow that is some nice stuff for the render times  ... One can only 
>> hope that others here will try and do that with the GPU...
>>
>> oh Ton....
>>
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2004, at 7:35 AM, Konrad Haenel wrote:
>>
>>> Some obvious idea considering today's hardware:
>>>
>>> GPU accelerated rendering
>>>
>>> Recently the "Parthenon"-renderer was mentioned in the blender.org 
>>> forums. It's a DirectX-accelerated full-GI renderer with, IMHO, 
>>> unbelievable rendering-speed. Which is no wonder considering the 
>>> visual detail modern graphic-cards can display in real-time.
>>>
>>> I think the whole idea of harvesting the GPU's power for faster 
>>> rendering will become one of the major topics in the next generation 
>>> of 3D-applications and I'd really love to be able to use something 
>>> like it in Blender.
>>>
>>> It doesn't have to be GI like in Parthenon, but a simple 
>>> hardware-accelerated rendering including
>>>
>>> - textures for color and normals
>>> - lambert- and blinn-shading
>>> - all lights with their parameters like intensity, color, 
>>> falloff-distance etc.
>>> - shadow maps
>>> - z-transparency
>>> - anti-aliasing
>>>
>>> would ease work on animations a lot.
>>>
>>> For fascinating examples and even more fascinating rendering-times 
>>> check out
>>>
>>> http://www.bee-www.com/parthenon/index.htm
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Konrad
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