Marc Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 gelato Anyone heard of this? Looks pretty interesting to me. Seems like the exluna guys have been kept busy . Nvidia in particular has their Cg language for shader writers, but the big announcement at the show comes from the Exluna /Entropy dev team they acquired last year. Exluna, you may remember, is the group founded by ex-Pixar scientists who ran into a lawsuit by Pixar when they brought out Entropy, a competing rendering product to Pixar's industry standard RenderMan.Well, they're back. The official debut of Nvidia's Digital Film Group comes at the show, along with version 1.0 of its Gelato renderer product. According to Nvidia, Gelato will support both scanline rendering and raytracing; support for a wide range of geometric primitives (Nurbs, subdivision surfaces, points, curves); antialiasing without artifacts; and a customizable API that allows Gelato to fit into existing production pipelines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Marengo Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Yup. No evals for download yet, but definitely "eyes peeled" on that one! I was very happy with the (now obsolete) cuts of Entropy that we got. And I suspect this may be that much more refined. So; assuming they don't get tangled up in yet another lawsuit... do you think it's too soon to start bugging Mark Elendt for a Gelato Vop Context? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Sounds great indeed, like I've already said in the mailinglist. Too bad Larry Gritz doesn't post in the RenderMan newsgroup anymore... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I'm pretty sure I saw an eval download link for a moment yesterday. Did it disappear? Hmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Marengo Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I'm pretty sure I saw an eval download link for a moment yesterday. Did it disappear? Hmm... HUH! Yep; it's there now... the link wasn't active yesterday... YAY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Well spotted! :-D Coming down the pipe! Stay away, Pixar! I wonder which functions they offloaded to the GPU? And which are solved by software.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfwood Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 $2750.00 word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoknamahn Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Very pitty what Gelato was designed for Quadro FX only. I hope what in the nearest future we will see alternatives to Gelato (and huh... i wanna see hardware Mantra ). Hummm... See that http://www.3dlabs.com/product/technology/w...ildrealtech.htm Great architecture for hardware rendering... At least on paper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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