Nvidia Releases Hardware-Accelerated Film Renderer

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?

Comments

Gelato or Gensto?

[Anonymous Coward]

Get it right, bitch!

Lunix?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you that religion nut troll?

Re:the problem is in the Bus

[Anonymous Coward]

The PS2 console thing wasn't using the GPU. They were attempting to use one of the processors which happens to be vector-based(the PS2 has like 3 processors and they're all a mess to code for, smart huh?) and so has an amazing capability for math work

Re:For low res, general computing power is too che

[imsabbel]

Come back if you aquired basic knowledge about what RENDERING in this context means. (i would call you a stupid divx kid if there werent your userid, you should know better)