Aqsis is a free rendering suite compliant with the

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standard. It is available under the

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, previously under GPL. Its main author and project manager is Paul Gregory. The Aqsis project consists of a renderer, shader compiler and a few other supporting components. Like the original PRMan from Pixar, it is an implementation of the

Reyes rendering Reyes rendering is a computer software architecture used in 3D computer graphics to render photo-realistic images. It was developed in the mid-1980s by Loren Carpenter and Robert L. Cook at Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Research Group, which i ...

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, which is famous for its high speed and efficiency in handling even very large scenes, and has good support for displacement shaders. Like many other open source projects, Aqsis is hosted on

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and is in continuous and active development. Because of its Reyes heritage, Aqsis lacks some advanced

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features like ray tracing, although active efforts are underway to support some such features. Its current stable version is 1.8.2. The

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project uses Aqsis to produce realistic renderings of the human body.

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External links

Home page

wiki.aqsis.org
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