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Functionality

Table of Contents

• Rendering
• Architecture
  • Parallelism
  • Distributed Rendering
  • Progressive Rendering 3.8
  • Geometry Caching
  • Memory Management
• Scene Database
• Geometry
  • Polygon Meshes
    • Tessellated Geometry
  • Free-Form Surfaces
    • Edge Merging
    • Special Points and Curves
  • Subdivision Surfaces
    • Hierarchical Subdivision Surfaces
    • Catmull-Clark Meshes
  • Curve Geometry
    • Hair Geometry
    • Space Curves
  • Point Data
    • Map Data 3.7
• Atmospheres and Volumes
• Materials
  • BRDF/BSDF 3.7
• Texture Mapping
  • Texture Files
  • Memory-Mapped Textures
  • Texture Caching
  • Bump, Displacement, and Reflection Mapping
  • Texture Filtering
    • Pyramid Filtering
    • Elliptical Projection Filter Lookup
    • Dynamic Filtering with Ray Differentials
• Direct Lighting
  • Light Sources
    • Area Light Sources
    • IES and Eulumdat Light Profiles
    • Shadow Maps
  • Image-Based Lighting 3.8
• Light Mapping
• Multipass Rendering
  • Sample Passes
• User-Defined Shaders
• The Camera
  • Stereoscopic 3.8
  • Lens Effects
  • Depth of Field
• Animation
  • Motion Blur 3.7
• Sampling Algorithms
• Rasterizer
• OpenGL Acceleration
• Color Calculations
  • Color Profiles
• Spectral Rendering
• Image Output
  • Frame Buffers
  • Output Shaders
  • Output Files
• Pixel Coverage
• Contours
• Caustics
  • Light Sources
  • Objects
  • Material Shaders and Photon Shaders for Caustics
  • Physically Plausible Material Shaders
  • Shader Functions
  • Fine-Tuning Caustics
  • Volume Caustics
• Global Illumination
  • Light Sources
  • Objects
  • Fine-Tuning Global Illumination
  • Global Illumination in Participating Media
• Final Gathering 3.8
  • Ambient Occlusion
• Importons
• Irradiance Particles 3.7
• iray Rendering Mode 3.8
• Path Raytracing
• Diagnostic Modes

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