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Published by John E. Stone
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Date Posted: |
September 7th, 2000
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Last Updated: |
November 22nd, 2000
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License: |
Freeware |
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1,590 total; 1 recently |
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8,996 total |
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About Tachyon:
Tachyon is a multiprocessor ray tracing system which can be used as a standalone program, or as a library within other programs. It supports almost any Unix-like system, Windows, and BeOS, as well as several embedded systems and high end supercomputers. Tachyon is quite fast.
Tachyon is written in C, uses POSIX threads and/or MPI for using multiple processors, and can also run on uniprocessor machines. Tachyon is easy to port to new machines, and is very fast, using a number of ray tracing acceleration schemes to achieve good performance on very complex scenes. (It easily handles scenes containing more than 100,000 objects, and does so without taking a long time to render)
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Details about this version:
Tachyon 0.92 is primarily a performance update, yielding
speed increases of 70% or more on complex scenes. The new
distribution also contains full image maps and geometry
for all of the example scenes, and pre-compiled binaries
for 14 platforms including BEOS.
This version also includes new platform support for Linux on Alpha, and MacOS-X.
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Intel Version - requires R4.5 (134 KB) |
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Source Code (2.7 MB) |
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