• What links here
• Related changes
• Upload file
• Special pages
• Printable version

• Log in / create account

3Delight

3Delight is a RenderMan-compliant renderer based on the REYES algorithm. 3Delight development originally commenced in the late 1990's and it has been continuously developed and officially distributed by The 3Delight Team since June 2000.

Updates are released regularly 2 - 3 times a year. The current official version is 5.0.

Contents 1 Licensing 2 Supported platforms 3 Main features 4 Movie credits 5 References 6 External links

Licensing

3Delight uses a networked floating license model. The first license is free and allows the user to run a maximum of two processes. Further licenses are available for $1000 each (information retrieved september 15, 2006)

Supported platforms

• Windows
• OSX
• Linux
• IRIX

Main features

• Scene data transported as ASCII or binary RIB, or via dynamic linking using the RenderMan API through lib3delight
• Full RenderMan Shading Language (SL) support
• Selective raytracing
• Global illumination and ambient occlusion
• Depth of field, motion blur and atmospheric effects
• True displacement and subdivision surfaces
• The full set of RenderMan geometry including NURBS, curves and procedural geometry

Movie credits

3Delight has been used for VFX work on several well-known productions:

• Cube Zero
• Charlotte's Web (2006)
• Fantastic Four (2005)
• Final Destination 3
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Mimzy
• Superman Returns
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Chronicles of Riddick
• The Woods
• X-Men 3

It was also used to render full CG films:

• Adventures in Animation (Imax 3D featurette)
• Free Jimmy

References

• 3Delight article at WikiPedia
• The official 3Delight documentation

External links

• The 3Delight Team

• This page was last modified 08:22, 16 September 2006.
• This page has been accessed 1,205 times.
• Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License.
• About CGWiki
• Disclaimers