Embree - Photo-Realistic Ray Tracing Kernels

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Embree: Photo-Realistic Ray Tracing Kernels

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.

Embree 1.1 now released!

What's New in Embree 1.1?
Embree 1.1 offers new acceleration structures with significantly lower memory consumption: up to 2x during rendering and up to 3x during construction. In addition, the new builders are up to twice as fast as the previous version. To better support movie production rendering, Embree 1.1 adds a new acceleration structure for scenes with motion blur, support for very large models, and improved ray/triangle intersection accuracy.


Release History:
- Beta Release (June 2011)
- 1.0 Release (November 2011)
- 1.1 Release (August 2012)


Embree 1.1 presentation at SIGGRAPH!!!
Details under the "Tech Sessions" tab on our SIGGRAPH page.


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Crown (click image for high-res picture)

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

Headlight (click image for high-res picture)

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Looks great! wish I had time to study raytraycing..

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Nils? Is that you Slin?

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"it only takes a minute to compute" on what equipment?

Also, do these two appear at parties? I'd like to hire them for my Hanukkah party.

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Nice to see more companies coming into this industry!

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schon beeindruckend, was man damit bildlich erzeugen kann.

adnan.sulejmanagicgmail.com's picture

Thanx for Embree source Release 1.0

nickokosmo's picture

it is very fast ....

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Embree is perfectly awesome and I'm happy to see this from Intel, thank you so much for writing Embree and make it open-source.

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Is AVX2 (256 8x32bit integer vector instructions) in Haswell capable of adding more perf to raytracing kernels or acceleration structures build and traverse?
Are you adding Intel Xeon Phi support for Intel embree once Xeon Phi is released using __m512 intrinsics?

Also some bug compiling embree 1.1 beta in vs 2012rc in 32bit mode I get error

error C2719 's': el parámetro formal con __declspec(align('16')) no se alineará
from rtcoretriangletriangle4i_intersector1_moeller_mb.h
template<typename T> __forceinline Vec3<T> select ( typename T::Mask s, const Vec3<T>& t, const Vec3<T>& f ) {

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Where can I get that headlight model, materials, textures, etc.?

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