[yanada]

http://www.m-six.com

yes it is

he other booth that stood out was that of M-SIX. At first glance I thought they were a visualization firm promoting their new company to the architects in attendance, but as it turns out they have developed a cloud computing system to render Revit models with the Maxwell Render engine. Using a simple desktop based application, users can import their Revit models and assign materials and lighting from a pre-defined library of shaders and lighting they have developed. Once you have set up your view you simply submit it to their cloud and you provided with a rendered image. The product has not released yet and no pricing has been established, but I gathered it would be based around some type of purchased rendering credit system. We will be reporting more on this company in 2009, once the product is ready for release on March 15th.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=4295

[-Adrian]

Kinda like Felix, isn't it?

[Mattia Sullini]

daros?

[andrebaros]

Holy Shit! That's awesome.

[RonB]

We will be seeing more and more of these "assign materials and lighting from a pre-defined library of shaders and lighting", and hit the Render Button type programs. I am not saying that is bad...neither was Etch-A-Sketch...but the fact is there is a "sameness" to all the renders. It's unavoidable as the end result is created from a small list of common denominators. Have a look at Bunk Speed Hypershot for instance. It was designed around the same operating model...limited to the shaders and methods they supply.

[Sheik]

The part about a render cloud is interesting. (Actually I don’t fully understand the difference between cloud computing and a network ie. Render Farm).
Companies like Google and Microsoft are planning to make their huge clouds available to the public. There are thousands of computers in these clouds, so pretty much any image would only take a few minutes to render.