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Functionality

Table of Contents

• Rendering
• Architecture
  • Parallelism
  • Distributed Rendering
  • Progressive Rendering
  • Geometry Caching
  • Demand Loading
  • Memory Management
• Scene Database
  • Scene Hierarchy
• Geometry
  • Polygon Meshes
    • Tessellated Geometry
  • Free-Form Surfaces
    • Edge Merging
    • Special Points and Curves
  • Subdivision Surfaces
    • Hierarchical Subdivision Surfaces
    • Catmull-Clark Meshes
  • Curve Geometry
    • Hair Geometry
    • Space Curves
  • Point Data
    • Map Data
    • Particles
• Atmospheres and Volumes
• Materials
  • BRDF/BSDF
  • MDL Materials 3.13
• Texture Mapping
  • Texture Files
  • Memory-Mapped Textures
  • Texture Caching
  • Bump, Displacement, and Reflection Mapping
  • Texture Filtering
    • Pyramid Filtering
    • Elliptical Projection Filter Lookup
    • Dynamic Filtering with Ray Differentials
• Direct Lighting
  • Light Sources
    • Area Light Sources
      • Emissive Objects 3.11
      • Light Importance Sampling 3.13
    • IES and Eulumdat Light Profiles
    • Shadow Maps
  • Multiple Importance Sampling 3.11
  • Image-Based Lighting
• Light Mapping
• Multipass Rendering
  • Sample Passes
• User-Defined Shaders
• The Camera
  • Stereoscopic
  • Lens Effects
  • Depth of Field
• Animation
  • Motion Blur
• Sampling Algorithms
  • Unified Sampling
• Rasterizer
• Color Calculations
  • Color Profiles
• Spectral Rendering
• Image Output
  • Frame Buffers
  • Output Shaders
  • Output Files
• Pixel Coverage
• Contours
• Caustics
  • Light Sources
  • Objects
  • Material Shaders and Photon Shaders for Caustics
  • Physically Plausible Material Shaders
  • Shader Functions
  • Fine-Tuning Caustics
  • Volume Caustics
• Global Illumination
  • Global Illumination (Photons)
    • Light Sources
    • Objects
    • Fine-Tuning Global Illumination
    • Global Illumination in Participating Media
  • Global Illumination GPU 3.12
  • Global Illumination "Next" (Prototype) 3.13
• Final Gathering
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Ambient Occlusion Pass, GPU Accelerated 3.13
• Importons
• Irradiance Particles
• iray Rendering Mode 3.12
• Path Raytracing
• Diagnostic Modes

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