Indigo Renderer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Indigo Renderer

A photorealistic image rendered with Indigo
Developer: Nicholas Chapman
Latest release: 0.7 test 5 / 20 February 2007
OS: Microsoft Windows
Use: Render Engine
License: Closed-Source
Website: www.indigorenderer.com

Indigo is a gratis, actively developed render engine. Indigo uses methods such as Metropolis Light Transport, Spectral light calculus, and virtual camera model. Indigo is capable of highly realistic renders. Scene data is stored in XML format.

Indigo features Monte-Carlo path tracing, experimental support for Bidirectional path tracing and MLT on top of bidirectional path tracing, distributed render capabilities, and progressive rendering (image gradually becomes less noisy as rendering progresses). Since Vesion 0.7 test 5 it also supports SSS and has its own Image Format (.igi). A Posttonemapping-Tool is in developement.

Indigo can be used by a diversity of modeling programs, such as Blender, 3Ds Max or Maya for which suitable exporters are available.

Currently Indigo is only developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system, although it can be run very well through WINE in Unix-like environments (i.e. Linux), and can be used in emulated mode in MacOS (this is very slow, however).


Indigo has exporters for quite a few 3D packages, here are some of the released ones.

This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of the article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Please include more appropriate citations from reliable sources.
This article has been tagged since December 2006.


This computer graphics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../i/n/d/Indigo_Renderer_650e.html"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.