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Description

AIR represents a cutting-edge 3D graphics rendering solution, characterized by its innovative architecture and a comprehensive suite of features aimed at swiftly generating high-quality visuals. As a hybrid renderer, AIR blends the rapid rendering capabilities of scanline techniques—efficiently handling complex scenes, motion blur, and depth of field—with the adaptive precision of on-demand ray tracing, allowing for realistic reflections, soft shadows, global illumination, and caustics. This advanced renderer accommodates a wide variety of geometric shapes, such as polygon meshes, trimmed NURBs, subdivision surfaces, curves, particles, and implicit surfaces, all supported in their original form—eliminating the need for pre-meshing. Additionally, AIR facilitates true sub-pixel displacement and supports both high-dynamic range (HDR) input and output. A hallmark of AIR is its highly customizable shading and procedural modeling capabilities, enabling users to enhance the shading language by implementing new functions through any programming language of their choice. This adaptability empowers artists to push the boundaries of their creativity and achieve unprecedented levels of detail and realism in their projects.

Description

Kray stands out as a cutting-edge global illumination renderer that facilitates swift and precise scene rendering, especially in environments where indirect lighting is crucial. It incorporates the latest algorithms and enhancements, enabling it to efficiently generate comprehensive global illumination effects, including reflections, refractions, and caustics, on standard computing systems. The renderer boasts rapid global illumination techniques such as light/photon mapping, which, while biased, provides impressive speed with minimal dependency on ray recursion counts; path tracing, which is unbiased and employs various sampling optimizations; and irradiance caching, designed for fast, view-independent storage of reusable GI solutions, along with caustics management. It features diverse light models, including point, directional, line, area, background lights, HDR image-based lighting, and the ability to pre-sample lights. Additionally, it supports instancing, permitting the efficient reuse of the same geometry across multiple locations in the rendered scene with minimal memory usage. Remarkably, instanced geometry can even be instantiated further, allowing for self-cloning capabilities with a user-defined number of recursions, making Kray a versatile tool for advanced rendering tasks.

API Access

Has API

API Access

Has API

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Integrations

Gatheround

Integrations

Gatheround

Pricing Details

$375 per license
Free Trial
Free Version

Pricing Details

€70 per unit
Free Trial
Free Version

Deployment

Web-Based
On-Premises
iPhone App
iPad App
Android App
Windows
Mac
Linux
Chromebook

Deployment

Web-Based
On-Premises
iPhone App
iPad App
Android App
Windows
Mac
Linux
Chromebook

Customer Support

Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support

Customer Support

Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support

Types of Training

Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person

Types of Training

Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person

Vendor Details

Company Name

SiTex Graphics

Country

Unites States

Website

www.sitexgraphics.com/html/air.html

Vendor Details

Company Name

Kray

Country

Poland

Website

www.kraytracing.com/about/overview/

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Product Features

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