Mitsuba is a free, open source and extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. Mitsuba implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains heavy optimizations targeted towards current CPU architectures.
The Mitsuba renderer currently runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows and makes use of SSE2 optimizations on x86 and x86_64 platforms.
So far, Mitsuba`s main use has been as a testbed for algorithm development in computer graphics, but there are many other interesting applications.
Further details on how to use the Mitsuba renderer on your Mac are available here.
Here are some key features of "Mitsuba":
· Spectral rendering, black body radiation and dispersion
· Customizable image reconstruction filters
· High dynamic-range input/output using the OpenEXR format
· Deterministic Quasi-Monte Carlo sampling
· Adaptive integration
· Depth of field
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The COLLADA importer is more robust and should handle most scenes (hm, this sounds familiar). Rather than generating hundreds of translated mesh files, the new version instead produces one single compressed file.
· I`ve added an experimental plugin for Blender 2.5 integration, including a custom material designer. Since it depends on features which won`t be in Blender until the upcoming 2.56 release, it is currently necessary to compile Blender from SVN to use the plugin. Many thanks go to Doug Hammond for providing his excellent EF package, which the plugin uses extensively.
· Jonas Pilo has contributed a very nice test scene, which is currently used as an interactive preview in the material designer of the Mitsuba Blender plugin (see this video for an example of what this looks like)
· The KD-tree acceleration and construction code has been completely rewritten. The new code produces noticeably better trees and does so within a fraction of the time of the old version. It also scales to v...
