Design and implementation of the Maya Renderer

Sung, Kelvin; Craighead, J.; Wang, Changyaw; Bakshi, Sumit; Péarce, Andrew; Woo, Andrew

doi:10.1109/pccga.1998.732097

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“…In addition to REYES [Cook et al 1987], these other systems include the Maya Renderer [Sung et al 1998] and Mental Ray [Driemeyer 2000]. Both the Maya Renderer and Mental Ray use a hybrid visibility algorithm: Rasterization is used for primary visibility while ray tracing is used for advanced effects such as reflection and refraction.…”

Section: High-quality Rendering Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recent work demonstrates that interactive ray tracing is possible on desktop systems, but there is still much debate as to how to most efficiently support advanced visual effects such as soft shadows, smooth freeform surfaces, complex shading, and animated scenes. With these challenges in mind, we reconsider the options for designing a rendering system and present Razor, a new software rendering architecture for distribution ray tracing designed to produce high-quality images with high performance on future singlechip many-core hardware. Razor includes two noteworthy capabilities: a set of techniques for quickly building the kd-tree acceleration structure on demand every frame from a scene graph and a system design that allows for crack-free multiresolution geometry with each ray independently choosing its geometry resolution. Razor's per-frame kd-tree build is designed to robustly handle arbitrarily scene animation, while its per-ray multiresolution geometry provides continuous level of detail driven by ray and path differentials. Razor also decouples shading from visibility computations W. Hunt, I. Elhassan, and W. R. Mark were at the University of Texas at Austin during the period that most of this work was conducted.

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“…The micropolygon approach used by Razor was pioneered by REYES and also used by BMRT. The Maya renderer is able to lazily build its acceleration structure [Sung et al 1998]. Figure 17 includes additional images produced by Razor along the lines of those produced by other high-quality renderering systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Here we discuss the advantage of Efficient Spatio-Temporal Architecture for Rendering Animation (ESTARA) [3] compared to the well-known rendering architectures using procedural shaders, such as REYES [2] and Maya renderer [5].…”

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Effective Use of Procedural Shaders in Animated Scenes

Kondratieva¹,

Havran²,

Seidel³

2004

Computational Science - ICCS 2004

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Abstract. Complex procedural shaders are commonly used to enrich the appearance of high-quality computer animations. In traditional rendering architectures the shading computation is performed independently for each animation frame which leads to significant costs. In this paper we propose an approach which eliminates redundant computation between subsequent frames by exploiting temporal coherence in shading. The shading computation is decomposed into view-dependent and viewindependent parts and the results of the latter one are shared by a number of subsequent frames. This leads to a significant improvement of the computation performance. Also, the visual quality of resulting animations is much better due to the reduction of temporal aliasing in shading patterns.

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“…The requirement of fast and real rendering of virtual scenes in virtual reality is more and more sophisticated, owing to its high performance, OSG technique is widely applied in virtual reality field.3D studio Maya is a popular software in 3D design and plays an important role in 3D modelling [3] [4].…”

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Fast Rendering Method of Lots of Dynamic Trees Based on OSG

Jia¹,

Wang²,

Song³

2013

Advances in Intelligent Systems Research

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-In virtual reality, the fast rendering of trees is always a difficult part of scene rendering, so it is a challenge to render a large scale of trees with rich geometric details. We present a new method to get fast and real rendering. The LOD technique and Billboard technique are both combined in applying in the rendering method based on OSG to realize the fast requirement, and GPU technique is adopted to realize the swinging effect, in order to be more real, shadow map technique is also utilized in the method. The method is proved to be feasible to simulate large scale of tree scene.

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Design and implementation of the Maya Renderer

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