RenderMan 12.5, new version released by Pixar Animation Studios
EMERYVILLE, CA – (May 2nd, 2005) Responding to the rapidly increasing performance demands of cinematic quality imagery, Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) today announced the release of version 12.5 of its award winning RenderMan Pro Server software. In this release, RenderMan ray-tracing speed has been optimized to unprecedented levels, lengthening its industry lead as the renderer of choice in the majority of movies and visual effects sequences in current production.
Continually upgraded and production tested, key features of RenderMan Pro Server v12.5 include accelerated ray tracing, support for hierarchical subdivision surfaces, an API to read and write point cloud files, ray tracing visibility and shading attribute simplification, and many other improvements and optimizations.
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