Rendering with mental ray®

Thomas Driemeyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVI, 628 Seiten

2005 | 3rd, completely revised ed. 2005
Springer Wien (Verlag)
978-3-211-22875-3 (ISBN)

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Written by the mental ray software project leader, this book gives a general introduction into rendering with mental ray, as well as step-by-step recipes for creating advanced effects and tips and tricks for professional users. A comprehensive definiton of mental ray's scene description language and the standard shader libraries are included as the basis for all examples. The third, completely revised edition covers the latest version of the new generation of mental ray, version 3.4.

Overview.- Scene Construction.- Cameras.- Surface Shading.- Light and Shadow.- Volume Rendering.- Caustics and Global Illumination.- Motion Blur.- Hardware Rendering.- Contours.- Shaders and Phenomena.- Postprocessing and Image Output.- Geometric Objects **.- Instancing and Grouping.- Inheritance.- Incremental Changes and Animations.- Using and Creating Shader Libraries **.- Parallelism.- The Options Block.- The Architecture of mental ray 3.x **.- Quality and Performance Tuning.- Troubleshooting *.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.11.2005
Reihe/Serie	mental ray® Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 628 p. 195 illus., 48 illus. in color. With online files/update.
Verlagsort	Vienna
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 280 mm
Gewicht	1785 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Compilerbau
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Schlagworte	Animation • Computer Graphics • Computergraphik • mental ray (Software) • Performance • Rendering • Shading • Software
ISBN-10	3-211-22875-6 / 3211228756
ISBN-13	978-3-211-22875-3 / 9783211228753
Zustand	Neuware