mental ray generates images of outstanding quality and achieves high performance through the exploitation of parallelism. The software incorporates significant developments such as a novel proprietary parallel rendering algorithm and a distributed database. The message-passing based software is capable of running on single processor workstations and on shared memory parallel platforms, as well as on distributed memory architectures such as networks of workstations and massively parallel supercomputers.
The free-form surface processing and approximation capabilities, and the mathematical accuracy of the software, are superior compared to any competing rending software products. Version 2.0 of mental ray constitutes the Rendering Component of both Microsoft/SOFTIMAGE® 3D and Dassault Systemes' CATIA®.
Silvia Hanko
mental images GmbH & Co. KG
Rankestrasse 9
D-10789 Berlin,
Germany
011-49-30-882-1088
011-49-30-882-5381 (fax)
For applications in related solution areas, see the following indices: Engineering Visualization, Image Processing, Parallel Processing, Rendering, Visualization, the developer index for mental images GmbH & Co. KG and the market segment index for Visualization Tools.
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mental ray is a Trademark of mental images GmbH & Co. KG
