A student of mine found this renderer - is anyone familiar with it? It looks like it uses some Radiance algorithms.
Martin Moeck, Penn State
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After more and more research of render engine, I have finally got my hands on a new breed of rendering engine which should worth your time to look at. Maxwell Render - brought the us by the world famous NextLimit Corporation (the maker of RealFlow3, a real physical simulation software for Computational Fluid Dynamics). t is the first physical based rendering engine with a GUI. The approach is almost identical to Radiance, except I am not sure if it produces hard number calculations. One thing for sure, it does produce False-Color images. Please take a look at this,
http://www.wahn.demon.co.uk/Maxwell/PhysicalSky/index.html
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1121&highlight=
for further description of the renderer, please see the following link.
http://www.maxwellrender.com/product.htm
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The Pennsylvania State University
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Martin Moeck wrote:
A student of mine found this renderer - is anyone familiar with it? It looks like it uses some Radiance algorithms.
Hi Martin,
I have been following the development of Maxwell for a little while. I inquired with the President of the company a while back, about the ability of Maxwell to both work with actual photometric files and to supply real illuminance & luminance results. I received vague replies about this. It's the same old story, us lighting people don't get any respect; we're the Rodney Dangerfields of the computer graphics world. A friend of mine who runs a CG news website has been asking similar questions of them and getting similar runaround. A similar fate affected another well-known physically-based rendering tool (Lightscape). Maxwell does look very nice, but so far the promise of being able to use it for lighting analysis remains a promise, a potetially broken one, and I'm an excellent skeptic, even during this holiday time. =8-) That said, I have not looked at their website in a while or made any inquiries.
That website link you sent was interesting; the Maxwell engine does definitely look like it uses similar algorithms as Radiance -- noise and all. Have a look here:
http://www.wahn.demon.co.uk/Maxwell/Images/
He's done a bunch of renderings of the tutorial scenes from RwR. Very interesting!
- Rob Guglielmetti