AccuRender
- Platforms, prices, and company
- Applications
- AccuRender creates stunning, life-like images from 3-D models inside AutoCAD R14 and
2000/2000i/2002, Architectural Desktop, Mechanical Desktop, Revit, or
Rhino (www.flamingo3d.com). AccuRender uses raytracing and radiosity technologies to
create high quality, photorealistic, still, panorama, and animation image files.
- Examples/Samples
- Functions
- Features
- Calculates light, shadows, materials, transparency, diffusion, reflection, ClearFinish - http://www.accurender.com/clearfinish.htm™, and refraction,from a surface’s properties.
- Uses both raytracing and radiosity to create sophisticated single-frame images, panoramas, and animations.
- Automatically calculates indirect light, hard and soft shadows, color bleeding, reflections, translucency, transparency, refraction, depth of field, and depth attenuation.
- Supports multiprocessors and background processing.
- Includes realistic mathematically-generated 3-D plants with seasonal variation, giving realistic foliage, shadows, and reflections.
- Viewpoint animation for walking through and flying around model.
- Optimization by adaptive spatial subdivision.
- Progressive-refinement rendering algorithms with on-screen preview.
- Two-and three-point perspective projections.
- Produces panorama files. When viewing a panorama file, you can move around within the rendered image.
- Image quality
- Combine radiosity and raytracing for highest quality images.
- True specular reflection and transparency.
- Shadow casting from all light sources.
- Soft shadow edges, blurry reflection, and translucency.
- Refraction and simulated caustics.
- Depth of field.
- Depth attenuation for transparent materials.
- Antialiasing by adaptive stochastic sub-pixel sampling with extensive user control.
- 24-bit or 32-bit color output (16.7 million colors plus alpha channel for background).
- Resolution up to 16,000 by 16,000 pixels, not limited screen resolution.
- WYSIWYG 256, 32,000, or 16.7 million color display.
- Lighting
- Distant,point, spot, linear, rectangular, and goniometric lights; user-defined light fixtures; sun, ground, sky lighting.
- Extensive light fixture library (over 300).
- Physically-based light sources and illumination algorithms.
- Manufacturers photometric (IES) data supported for light fixtures.
- Accurate daylighting simulation (sun, sky, ground, and cloud cover components).
- Exact solar time calculator.
- Graphical adjustment of spot focus for spotlights.
- Shadow casting on/off by object.
- Adjustable sun light color in RGB or degrees Kelvin.
- Intensity specified in watts, lumens, or max candelas.
- Lighting Analysis
- Display pseudo-color image of the luminance or illuminance.
- Interactively meter any surface luminance.
- Environment
- Background options include automatic sky, solid color, gradient colors, and image map.
- Library of background images.
- Ground plane with materials.
- Procedural clouds.
- Depth cue control.
- Clipping plane support.
- Haze.
- Animation
- Viewpoint animation (for walk-through and fly-by animation).
- Preview using OpenGL.
- Multiple complex 2- or 3-D polyline target and camera paths.
- Pans and zooms.
- Sunlight animation for daily or seasonal shadow studies.
- AVI file output, or TGA, TIFF, JPEG, or BMP individual frames.
- Materials
- Extensive materials library.
- Multiple library support.
- Assign materials by layer, object, or block.
- Interactive material editor with “live” raytraced preview of several materials at the same time.
- Physically-based material properties (reflectivity, transparency, and index of refraction)
- Depth attenuation control for transparent materials.
- Customizable 3-D procedural textures, including marble, granite, wood, tile, mask, blend, and ClearFinish™.
- Complex materials with multiple procedural textures.
- 3-D procedural bump maps, including fine and coarse textures, and waves.
- RGB and HSB color systems.
- Color, transparency, and bump mapping.
- Tiled, decal, and background bitmaps.
- Planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections for decals
- Multiple bitmaps per object.
- Support for TGA, BMP, TIF, and JPEG file formats.
- Landscaping
- Extensive library of fractal-generated 3-D plants including wet and dry climate plants, cold and warm climate plants, groundcover, and house plants.
- Bitmap masks define foliage geometry.
- Generated from simple wireframe objects while rendering.
- Tag any block as a plant.
- Specify size by height or trunk diameter.
- Pruning tools for removing lower branches.
- Foliage density control.
- Interactive plant editor for creating or modifying plants.
- Seasonal controls, global or individual.
- Application Interface
- Access to AccuRender features with AutoLISP.
- Web Resources