ART - RenderDrive 3D rendering appliances, PURE accelerated ray traced 3D rendering PCI board


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	RenderDrive produces a natural, accurate look, which gives the client a realistic representation, and means we don't have to spend a lot of time tweaking and adding extra light sources to get a good result. - Eric Long, Bombardier Aerospace Inc.

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ART VPS's unique physically based rendering 3D graphics chips enable the company to build systems that offer the highest image quality with maximum productivity. The PURE Rendering Card and RenderDrive are both based around our hardware raytrace rendering technology the AR350 chip.

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ART VPS products offer the fastest raytraced rendering available - and are the only solutions to deliver hardware accelerated ray tracing and secondary illumination.

PURE puts ART VPS's innovative rendering technology inside your workstation. A powerful, compact and affordable PCi-X 3D rendering card, PURE is the most productive high quality 3D rendering solution available. PURE makes ART VPS award-winning rendering technology available to all 3D animators and designers.

RenderDrive is ART VPS's family of 3D rendering appliances - systems specifically designed to tackle the most intensive of rendering jobs. RenderDrive offers maximum ray tracing performance, the largest scene data capacity, and is a shared network device to offer maximum resource utilization.

For applications handling large and complex models such as aerospace and automotive design or large architectural development, or applications requiring minimum rendering latency, ART VPS's RenderDrive appliances offer the highest rendering performance and the most reliable and robust platform.

Customers benefiting from ART VPS solutions include BSA Design, Chapman Taylor Partners, Countryside Properties, EDAW Inc., Elkus/Manfredi, HDR Architecture Inc., Johnson Fain Partners, Payne Rowlett, Sheppard Robson Architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Virtual Artworks, Walt Disney Imagineering, and WAT&G. Bombardier Aerospace Inc., Burrows / Impiric, C & D Aerospace, Drive, Ergonom, Getty Images, Nikon Corporation, PA Consulting, Pfizer, Plysu / Nampak, Procter & Gamble, Qinitiq, Shell. Leading educational establishments are adopting ART VPS solutions these include De Paul University (IL), Forschungsintitut fur Optronik und Must., George Mason University (VA), Ravensbourne College of Design, Sam Houston State University (TX), Savannah College of Art & Design (GA), University at Buffalo (NY), and the medical school at University Wisconsin.