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SolidView
is a render library (fast ray tracer) from ARCAVIS, designed to make
photo-realistic pictures of 3-dimensional CAD drawings. The development
of SolidView focused on three key elements: the quality of the picture, the
rendering speed and the ease of use. This has led to a highly accelerated ray
tracer.
Arcavis developed a number of ways
to accelerate the process of ray tracing for models with large numbers of
objects. At this moment the rendering process is about as fast as
"shading" applications. However, the high level of realism achieved
by ray tracing remains, which can best be seen in reflections, refraction with
(internal refraction) and shadows.
The render library is at the
moment available as a windows dynamic link library and for Linux as a C library
(.lib). The library is very useful for developers who want to implement 3D
viewing and rendering functionality into there applications (see Sightlines) .
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Rendering Options |
Materials |
Light sources |
Developers |
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Reflection |
2D/3D colortextures |
Point-light sources |
Alternative render function |
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Refraction |
2D/3D bumptextures |
Spotlights sources |
Add your own 3D texture functions |
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Shadow |
Hypertextures |
Distance light |
Add your own hypertexture functions |
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Caustics photonmapping |
Phong illumination |
Shadow on/of |
Alternative display function |
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Anti-aliasing (1.. 64 rays per pixel). |
Cook and Torrance illumination |
Caustics calculation on/off |
And many more |
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Fog |
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Sun time and location (on earth) |
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Camera animation (not in GUI yet) |
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Object animation (not in GUI yet) |
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Light animation (not in GUI yet) |
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Download SolidView for AutoCAD
2000 and AutoCAD 2004/2005 (zip, 5 MB) version 13 December 2004
Download SolidView render Materials library lib.svm(zip, 10 MB) version 2 December 2003