Embree - Photo-Realistic Ray Tracing Kernels

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June 28, 2011 1:00 AM PDT


Embree: Photo-Realistic Ray Tracing Kernels (Release 1.0)

 

Embree is a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, developed at Intel Labs. The kernels are optimized for photo-realistic rendering on the latest Intel® processors
with support for the SSE and AVX instruction sets. In addition to the ray tracing kernels, Embree provides an example photo-realistic rendering engine. Embree is designed for
Monte Carlo ray tracing algorithms, where the vast majority of rays are incoherent. The specific single-ray traversal kernels in Embree provide the best performance in this scenario and they are very easy to integrate into existing applications.

Release History:
- Beta Release (June 2011)
- 1.0 Release (November 2011)


New: Embree source updated to Release 1.0!

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Read Article: Embree: Photo-Realistic Ray Tracing Kernels
Download Crown Scene: Crown.zip (72.8MB)
Participate in Embree Forum Discussion: Embree Forum
Blog Post: Can't wait to create photo-realistic images for free?


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Crown (click image for high-res picture)

Model courtesy of Martin Lubich (http://www.loramel.net)

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