State of the Art

Features Summary

• Memory efficiency
  (see REYES algorithm)
• Camera Controls
  • Fast 3D motion blur
  • Shutter Timing
  • True 3D Depth-of-Field
  • Bokeh Controls
  • Stereo Rendering
• Interactive Re-Rendering
  • Progressive Ray Traced Re-Rendering (pre-vis)
  • Progressive Hybrid Re-Rendering (final frames)
• Ray Tracing
  • Multi-bounce Global Illumination
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Subsurface Scattering
  • Area Shadows
  • Reflections
  • Refractions
  • Caustics
  • Trace Sets
  • Programable Ray Tracing
• Point-based Rendering
  • Color Bleeding
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Subsurface Scattering
  • Reflection Occlusion
  • Fast Blurry Reflections
  • Render Brickmaps as Geometry
• Polygons
• NURBS
• Subdivision surfaces
  • Hierarchical
  • Catmull-Clark
  • Loop
• Particles
  • Points (RiPoints)
  • Spheres (RiSphere)
  • Implicit surfaces (RiBlobby)
• Curve Rendering (RiCurve primitive)
• Hair and Fur (RiCurve primitive)
• Volume Rendering
  • Maya Fluid Support
  • Volume Primitives
• High Quality Displacements
  (8, 16, and 32 bit)
  • Vector Displacements
• Deep Shadows
  (Transparent and filtered)
• Deep Textures
• Ptex Support
  (reading, writing, & baking)
• Image Based Lighting
  • Full support for HDRI
• OpenEXR Support
• Secondary Outputs (AOVs)
• Baking
  • Points, ptex, and texture support
• CSG Operations at Render Time 
• Level of Detail
• RIB (3D Data Format)
  • RIB Archives
  • Delayed Read Archives
  • RIB Filters
  • Procedural RIB
• RenderMan Shading Language
  • Custom Shader Support
  • Co-Shaders
  • Primitive Variables
• Python for PRMan (SDK)
• API's
  • Brick Maps
  • Point Clouds
  • Deep Textures
• In Depth Statistics