Features

Sunfish is laying the foundation of a new mathematical platform for rendering; in our first release the Meridian feature list includes:

• Displacement mapping
• Bump mapping
• Spectral transparency
• Shadow-map shadows (with transparency and prefiltering)
• True nonlinear 3D motion blur for rigid bodies
• Support for polygons, NURBS, Subdivision Surfaces and Smooth Mesh Preview
• Paint FX and Hair
• Emitters and Instanced Geometry
• Lambert, Blinn and Phong materials with textures and shading networks
• Anisotropic tube shading for hair
• Low and constant memory footprint (typically about 100 MB per thread)
• Command-line interface for network rendering
• Easy export and rendering of scenes with Meridian for Maya plug-in
• Image viewer application to view renderings in progress

More features are under development and will be added in upcomming releases. A few important items are:

• Shading language
• Multi-threading (simultaneously render multiple tiles per image)
• Depth of field
• Particles
• Soft-body motion blur
• Global illumination (true reflections and refractions)
• Ambient occlusion
• Subsurface scattering

Serving the customer means listening to their feedback. We welcome any suggestions you might have regarding the priority of our development list.

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Micropolgons

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Point Sampling