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Nvidia Releases Hardware-Accelerated Film Renderer

Posted by timothy on from the smart-use-of-hardware dept.

snowtigger writes "The day we'll be doing movie rendering in hardware has come: Nvidia today released Gelato, a hardware rendering solution for movie production with some advanced rendering features: displacement, motion blur, raytracing, flexible shading and lighting, a C++ interface for plugins and integration, plus lots of other goodies used in television and movie production. It will be nice to see how this will compete against the software rendering solutions used today. And it runs under Linux too, so we might be seeing more Linux rendering clusters in the future =)" Gelato is proprietary (and pricey), which makes me wonder: is there any Free software capable of exploiting the general computing power of modern video cards?

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  1. Spelling... by B4RSK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gelsto is proprietary (and pricey), which makes me wonder: is there any Free software capable of exploiting the general computing power of modern video cards?

    Gelato seems to be correct...

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  2. I like this... by rjw57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a reversion of the norm :) [from the page linked to in the story]:

    Operating System

    * RedHat Linux 7.2 or higher
    * Windows XP (coming soon)

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    1. Re:I like this... by killmenow · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nvidia couldn't be a little pissed they're out of the XBOX2, could they?

  3. Quick question... by Noryungi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there any Free software capable of exploiting the general computing power of modern video cards?

    Well, since they released "a C++ interface for plugins and integration" for Gelato (ice cream in Italian, btw), this probably means that free software can (and, eventually, will) support all these high-end functions... or am I completely wrong?

    For instance, just imagine Blender with a Gelato plug-in for rendering... hmmmm... Now I understand why they named it "Gelato"...

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