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	With RenderDrive the number of details we are able to resolve and refine based on the rendering alone, without prototyping or making physical models, is remarkable. - Barclay Shaw, Shaw Graphics

Overview

RenderDrive, ART's 3D rendering appliance, uses the power and scalability of the ray tracing graphics processor to deliver a powerful and flexible solution for end-users in the Entertainment and Design/Visualization markets.

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The benefits of a computing appliance concept have already been recognized through the delivery of cost-effective solutions for file and web servers. ART identified many similar problems in the 3D rendering task and realized that a dedicated rendering appliance would deliver great benefits to end-users. Using ART's ray tracing processors at its heart, RenderDrive provides substantial creative, quality and system management benefits.

Along with the ray tracing processors, RenderDrive utilizes custom hardware and sophisticated software to deliver a powerful, flexible and reliable rendering environment. RenderDrive has a TCP/IP Fast Ethernet network interface enabling the appliance to be shared between users and has a RenderMan compliant scene-data interface to provide an industry-standard interface that is application independent.

RenderDrives deliver -

* rendering in minutes, not hours

* interface software included

* handles raytracing, radiosity, HDRI, motion blur, DoF

* additional RenderMan shaders included

* Off-line Network based Rendering - leaving your workstation free

* fast full-screen preview for easy set-up

Together with ART's RenderPipe for Maya plug-in, RenderPipe MAX for 3dsmax or 3D Studio VIZ or our New RenderPipe Catia software, RenderDrive completes a very high performance Network based 3D rendering system.

Ray tracing is simply the most accurate method of rendering yet devised. Properly implemented, ray tracing effectively mimics the real world - lighting, materials and cameras behave predictably and intuitively. A minimum of work-around interventions, such as shadow and reflection mapping, are required to create beautiful, vibrant images.

But while ray tracing means great images, it also means enormous render times. Consequently ray tracing is often dismissed as impractical. RenderDrive makes ray tracing a real world option: it is a high quality ray tracer, designed to render images at speeds that will more than satisfy your time budgets. RenderDrive means unsurpassed image quality; fast.

For the first time the image you want to create can be achieved in the real world of impossible production deadlines. No compromises with image quality. Predictable results. Maximum performance. RenderDrive is the only real solution in 3D rendering.

RenderDrive means a physically accurate real-world environment: matte, reflective and refractive materials behave predictably; shadows are thrown according to the brightness, position and size of light sources; lens flares and depth of field dictated by real camera environmental values.

RenderDrive gives you a predictable and intuitive scene building environment. A firm foundation from which to create great images - realistic, fantastic, or anywhere in between, the only limit is your imagination.

RenderDrive

RenderDrive is ART's high end solution and offers the maximum 3D rendering performance. With a capacity in excess of 30 million polygons and a rendering speed up to sixty times faster than software ray tracing. Up to 8 RenderDrive units can be linked together to give the ultimate ray trace rendering performance.