Indigo is an unbiased render engine capable of highly realistic renders.
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Indigo is an unbiased render engine capable of highly realistic renders.
Indigo uses methods such as
Metropolis Light TransportThe Metropolis light transport is a SIGGRAPH 1997 paper by Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas, describing an application of a variant of the Monte Carlo method called the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical descriptions of three...
, Spectral light calculus,
and virtual camera model. Scene data is stored in
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or IGS format.
Indigo features Monte-Carlo
path tracingPath tracing is a photorealistic computer graphics rendering technique by James Kajiya when he presented his paper on the rendering equation in the 1980s. The main goal of path tracing is to fully solve the rendering equation...
, experimental support for Bidirectional path tracing and
MLTThe Metropolis light transport is a SIGGRAPH 1997 paper by Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas, describing an application of a variant of the Monte Carlo method called the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical descriptions of three...
on top of bidirectional path tracing, distributed render capabilities, and progressive rendering (image gradually becomes less noisy as rendering progresses).Indigo also supports
subsurface scatteringSubsurface scattering is a mechanism of light transport in which light penetrates the surface of a translucent object, is scattered by interacting with the material, and exits the surface at a different point...
and has its own Image Format (.igs).
A Post-render
tone mappingTone mapping is a technique used in image processing and computer graphics to map a set of colours to another; often to approximate the appearance of high dynamic range images in media with a more limited dynamic range...
tool is in development under the name Violet, unlike Indigo this is open sourced under GPL.
Indigo was originally released as freeware,until the 2.0 release, when it became a commercial product.
Compatibility
The Indigo community freely develops exporters for several 3D packages:
- Blendigo (Blender
Blender is a 3D graphics application released as free software under the GNU General Public License. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle, and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating...
)
- Maxigo (3D Studio Max
Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio MAX, is a modeling, animation and rendering package developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment.- Early history & Releases :...
)
- SkIndigo (Sketchup
SketchUp is a 3D modeling program designed for architects, civil engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and related professions. It also includes features to facilitate the placement of models in Google Earth...
)
- Cindigo (Cinema 4D
CINEMA 4D or C4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3D computer graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer GmbH of Friedrichsdorf, Germany...
)
- MayaToIndigo (Maya
Autodesk Maya, or simply Maya , is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software package originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation, but now owned by Autodesk as part of the Media and Entertainment division. Autodesk acquired the software in October 2005 upon purchasing Alias...
)
- XSIndigo (Softimage XSI
Autodesk Softimage, or simply Softimage , is a high-end 3D computer graphics application owned by Autodesk for producing 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling, and computer animation...
)
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See also
- Fryrender - A commercial unbiased renderer.
- Maxwell Render
Maxwell Render is a software package that aids in the production of photorealistic images from computer 3D model data. It was introduced as an early alpha on December 2004 and it utilized a global illumination algorithm based on a metropolis light transport variation...
- Another commercial unbiased renderer.
- Kerkythea
Kerkythea is a commercial rendering system that supports raytracing. Currently, it can be integrated with 3ds Max, Blender, SketchUp, Silo and Wings3D...
- free unbiased and biased renderer.
- LuxRender
LuxRender is an open source software rendering system for physically correct image synthesis. The program runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and exporters are available for Blender, Cinema 4D, XSI and Maya.-Overview:...
- An open source unbiased renderer