Kerkythea is a standalone rendering system that supports raytracing and

Metropolis light transport Metropolis light transport (MLT) is a global illumination application of a variant of the Monte Carlo method called the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical descriptions of three-di ...

, uses physically accurate materials and lighting, and is distributed as

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. Currently, the program can be integrated with any software that can export files in obj and

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formats, including

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and

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History

Kerkythea started development in 2004 and released its first version in April 2005. Initially it was only compatible with

Microsoft Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...

, but an updated release in October 2005 made it

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

compatible. As of January 2016, it is also available for Mac OS X. In May 2009 it was announced that the development team started a new commercial renderer, although Kerkythea will be updated and it will stay free and available. A new version called 'Boost' has been released in 2013. In June 2018 the main developer announced the third version of Kerkythea called "Kerkythea 2018 Boost".

Exporters

There are 6 official exporters for Kerkythea. ;

: ;*Blend2KT ;*Exporter to XML format ;

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: ;*3dsMax2KT 3dsMax Exporter ;

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: ;*Maya2KT Maya Exporter ; GMax: ;*GMax2KT GMax Exporter ;

: ;*SU2KT SketchUp Exporter ;*SU2KT Light Components

Features

Supported 3D file formats *

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format * OBJ format *

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(internal) format *SIA (

) format (partially supported) Supported image formats *All supported by FreeImage library (

JPEG JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...

, BMP, PNG, TGA and HDR included) Supported materials *Matte *Perfect reflections/refractions *Blurry reflections/refractions *

Translucency In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions a ...

(SSS) *Dielectric material *Thin glass material *

Phong shading In 3D computer graphics, Phong shading, Phong interpolation, or normal-vector interpolation shading is an interpolation technique for surface shading invented by computer graphics pioneer Bui Tuong Phong. Phong shading interpolates surface nor ...

material *Ward anisotropic material *Anisotropic Ashikhmin material *Lafortune material *Layered material (additive combination of the above with use of alpha maps) Supported shapes *Triangulated meshes *

Sphere A sphere () is a Geometry, geometrical object that is a solid geometry, three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle. A sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...

* Planes Supported lights *Omni light *Spot light *Projector light *Point diffuse *Area diffuse *Point light with spherical soft shadows *Ambient lighting *Sky lighting (Physical sky, SkySphere bitmap (normal or HDRI)) Supported textures *Constant colors *

Bitmaps In computing, a bitmap is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits. It is also called a bit array or bitmap index. As a noun, the term "bitmap" is very often used to refer to a particular bitmapping application: th ...

(normal and HDRI) *Procedurals (Perlin noise, marble,

wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin th ...

, windy, checker, wireframe, normal ramp, Fresnel ramp) *Any weighted or multiplicative combination of the above Supported features *

Bump mapping Bump mapping is a texture mapping technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object. This is achieved by perturbing the surface normals of the object and using the perturbed normal during lighting calcul ...

Normal mapping In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping, or Dot3 bump mapping, is a texture mapping technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of bump mapping. It is used to add details without using more polygons. A common u ...

* Clip mapping *Bevel mapping (an innovative KT feature) *Edge outlining *

Depth of field The depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera. Factors affecting depth of field For cameras that can only focus on one object dist ...

Fog Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Reprint from Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influ ...

*Isotropic volume scattering *Faked caustics *Faked

translucency In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions a ...

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Anti-aliasing Anti-aliasing may refer to any of a number of techniques to combat the problems of aliasing in a sampled signal such as a digital image or digital audio recording. Specific topics in anti-aliasing include: * Anti-aliasing filter, a filter used be ...

(Texture filtering, edge antialiasing) *Selection rendering *Surface and material instancing Supported camera types * Planar projection (

Pinhole A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful for various purposes, or may represent a problem needing to be addressed in many fields of en ...

thin lens In optics, a thin lens is a lens with a thickness (distance along the optical axis between the two surfaces of the lens) that is negligible compared to the radii of curvature of the lens surfaces. Lenses whose thickness is not negligible are so ...

) *Cylindrical pinhole *Spherical pinhole Supported rendering techniques *Classic ray tracing *

Path tracing Path tracing is a computer graphics Monte Carlo method of rendering images of three-dimensional scenes such that the global illumination is faithful to reality. Fundamentally, the algorithm is integrating over all the illuminance arriving to ...

(Kajiya) *Bidirectional path tracing (Veach & Guibas) *

(Kelemen, Kalos et al.) *

Photon mapping In computer graphics, photon mapping is a two-pass global illumination rendering algorithm developed by Henrik Wann Jensen between 1995 and 2001Jensen, H. (1996). ''Global Illumination using Photon Maps''. nlineAvailable at: http://graphics.stanf ...

(Jensen) (mesh maps, photon maps, final gathering, irradiance caching, caustics) *Diffuse interreflection (Ward) *Depth rendering *Mask rendering *Clay rendering Application environment *

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardwa ...

real-time viewer (basic staging capabilities) *Integrated material editor *Easy rendering customization *Sun/sky customization *Script system *

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mode

References

External links

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History

Exporters

Features

See also

References

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