Kerkythea is a standalone rendering system that supports raytracing and

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, 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 3ds formats, including

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and Wings3D.

History

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

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 ; 3D Studio Max: ;*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 * 3DS format * OBJ format *

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. ...

(internal) format *SIA (

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

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, 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 ...

(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 ...

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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 *

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

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, 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 calcu ...

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 ...

Clip mapping Clipmapping is a method of clipping a mipmap to a subset of data pertinent to the geometry being displayed. This is useful for loading as little data as possible when memory is limited, such as on a graphics processing unit. The technique is use ...

*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 di ...

* Fog *Isotropic volume scattering *Faked caustics *Faked

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

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 s ...

) *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 t ...

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

(Kelemen, Kalos et al.) *

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

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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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Kerkythea's Forum
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History

Exporters

Features

See also

References

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