mental ray 3.7+ Integrated with Pro/E Wildfire 5.0
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FRANCISCO, CA and BERLIN, Germany, Jun 10, 2009 - mental images, a global
leader in rendering software and visualization tools for animators, visual
effects artists and other professionals, today announced that Parametric
Technologies Corporation (PTC) has selected mental images’ mental ray 3.7+
to bring the highest quality photorealistic rendering features and
performance to its integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solution, Pro/ENGINEER. With
the inclusion of mental ray 3.7+ in the Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Rendering
Extension (ARX), Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 users can seamlessly utilize its
high-end rendering capabilities for product design and development.
“PTC is pleased to partner with mental images to deliver advanced
rendering capabilities to support PTC’s customers’ needs. Our customers have
requested better rendering capabilities within Pro/ENGINEER and PTC has
responded by integrating mental image’s award winning mental ray 3.7+
technology into Pro/ENGINEER ARX," says Michael Campbell, SVP Product
Management, PTC.
mental ray 3.7+ is now the backbone of Pro/ENGINEER ARX, allowing users
to render a wide variety of real-world materials and environments. It fully
leverages mental ray’s capabilities to produce physically accurate and
visually compelling results in less time. These include:
- Achieving glossy reflections and optical correct refraction.
- Direct illumination with ray tracing, a key feature in mental
ray, makes computing realistic effects for reflections and
refractions easy and fast to render.
- Ensuring best performance for established lighting workflows.
- Common light source types can be easily added to your scene.
Pro/ENGINEER ARX now provides optimized support for traditional
lighting models that are based on idealized light sources, whether
it be for distant, point, or spot lights.
- Producing convincing illumination of a scene based on real-world
environments.
- High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI) can easily be used in
Pro/ENGINEER to generate lighting, reflections and backgrounds,
producing visually stunning results every time without the need to
spend time manipulating light sources.
- Furthering realism with see-through surfaces and soft shadows.
- mental ray generates lighting effects beyond traditional
rendering such as patterns or beams of light when casting through
transparent objects like glass or water. This indirect illumination
is achieved through the photon mapping core technology in mental
ray, fully integrated inside Pro/ENGINEER
- The advanced final gathering feature in mental ray generates the
subtle but impressive effects like contact soft shadows and color
bleeding, providing stronger realism to images than traditional
rendering.
“We are very pleased that PTC has selected mental ray for its rendering
tool. It’s a natural fit,” says Rolf Herken, CEO and CTO, mental images.
“The addition of PTC strengthens our robust line up of partners and we look
forward to working together to bring the highest-quality rendering to PTC’s
products.”
About mental images
mental images, founded in 1986, is the recognized international leader in
providing component and platform software for the creation, manipulation and
visualization of 3D content. Its world leading rendering and other
technologies are used by the entertainment, computer-aided design,
architecture, scientific visualization, and other industries that require
sophisticated images primarily as part of their software products and
application services. mental images is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NVIDIA
Corporation with headquarters in Berlin, Germany, a subsidiary in the United
States, mental images, Inc., and a subsidiary in Melbourne, Australia,
mental images Pty. mental images has a multinational staff of top qualified
engineers exclusively dedicated to basic research and development in the
area of 3D graphics and 3D Web Applications and Services technologies. For
more information, visit
www.mentalimages.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing
technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which
generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal
computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the
entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce products, the
professional design and visualization market with its Quadro products, and
the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ products. NVIDIA is
headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia,
Europe, and the Americas.
For more information, visit
www.nvidia.com.
© 2009 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo,
GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla are trademarks or registered trademarks of NVIDIA
Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names
may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are
associated.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited
to, statements as to: the benefits, features, and capabilities of
RealityServer; and the partnership between SceneCaster and mental images are
forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that
could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include:
development of more efficient or faster technology; adoption of the CPU for
parallel processing; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact
of technological development and competition; changes in consumer
preferences and demands; customer adoption of different standards or our
competitor's products; changes in industry standards and interfaces;
unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when
integrated into systems as well as other factors detailed from time to time
in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission
including its Form 10-K for the fiscal period ended January 25, 2009. Copies
of reports filed with the SEC are posted on our website and are available
from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not
guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and,
except as required by law, NVIDIA and mental images disclaim any obligation
to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or
circumstances.
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Additional News
Feb 04 - mental images Unveil RealityServer AppLab for 3D Contents
Nov 4 - mental images, NIAR Launch RealityServer Demo Center
Oct 1 - mental ray 3.8 to Include iray Rendering, Due Nov
Jun 10 - mental ray 3.7+ Integrated with Pro/E Wildfire 5.0
Apr 23 - SceneCaster, mental images Join to Offer Online 3D Content
Mar 27 - mental ray 3.7+ to Integrate with 3ds Max 2010
Mar 23 - mental mill Artist Edition Supports 3ds Max 2010
Aug 14 - mental ray 3.7 Integrates with Autodesk Maya 2009
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