Caustic has ported much of the Brazil renderer over to the CausticGL API to create a new Brazil interactive renderer currently running only with 3ds Max. There's still more work to be done to get that famous "Brazil" look, but it is a good start.

 

In this scene, Caustic worked with the famous architect Greg Lynn to display one of his trellis structures. An architectural visualization company, Figure H, helped put it all together.

 

The scene shows the highly flexible CausticGL API in action with a multi-million polygon architectural scene.  This is 100% raytracing - there is no rasterization going on here. The scene renders VGA resolutions at 5 fps with DOF, manipulating objects/shaders, HDR, etc. using the CausticOne acclerator. Over 80 complex materials, all created in 3Ds Max Design and automatically converted to standard OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) are required to render the scene.  Many highly incoherent secondary rays are cast through the scene demonstrating effects such as shadows, high dynamic range lighting, spherical lens camera and glossy reflections all in real-time. Scene dynamism is demonstrated showing geometry, shader, lighting and camera changes all occurring without work-flow interruption.

 

We're all interested in seeing how far Caustic is able to push Brazil and their technology to serve the needs of 3ds Max users. It's great to see these innovations popping up first on the 3ds Max platform.

 

 

 

 

 

Also there's the . . .

 

The High Performance Graphics conference is being held on (Aug 1-3) in New Orleans.  James McCombe (Founder & CTO) has been invited by the organizers to present CausticGL as an open standard for programming raytracing at the Hot3D session on Sunday August 2nd.  He's participating in this session with researchers from NVIDIA, and Intel.