Pixie

Jul 20, 2023

Photorealistic renderer with Pixar’s RenderMan-like interface

Pixie is a RenderMan like photorealistic renderer. It is being developed in the hope that it will be useful for graphics research and for people who cannot afford a commercial renderer.

Some of supported features

  • All RenderMan 3.4 primitives
  • Programmable shading RenderMan Shading Language
  • High quality texture/shadow/environment mapping
  • High dynamic range input/output
  • Raytracing
  • Motion blur
  • Depth of field
  • Reyes style rendering very fast
  • Occlusion culling
  • Area light sources
  • Network parallel rendering
  • DSO shaders
  • Global illumination
  • Photon mapping


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