[yanada]

Caustic Graphics It was mention here few days ago... http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=30937
Some cool stuff:
a. Splutterfish/Brasil was bought by Caustic Graphics. So are they going to adapt Brazil for the CauticOne card ? Probably yes.
b. 200X speed over today's state-of-the-art graphics products.
c. No more costly "render farm" server infrastructures.
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And now I would love to see what Intel will offer with Larrabee

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a. Splutterfish/Brasil was bought by Caustic Graphics.

that's the official posting by caustic graphics

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.ph ... stcount=44

..so what they do seems more like "middleware" between an existing renderer (with a new plugin/translator") and their causticGL language, which can distribute raytracing to gpus.

but no release 1.0 before 2010..

..the concept with the extra card is strange though, .. imo i'd be a good idea to get that running on larabee or standar openGL capable cards.

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in one of the threads you posted i found this company:

http://www.sunfishstudio.com/software.htm

also still in developement, no GI yet, but the concept sounds very promising.

no more (micro)polygons..

[Bubbaloo]

Meridian sounds nice, but we'll see. No Max support for the beta program, no GI, no raytraced reflections... it's very early.

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a set of interesting clps about their RT card:

http://www.caustic.com/gallery_movies_1 ... racing.php

after all it seems they are shipping developer cards already...

*this looks hot indeed .. 5m polys in realtime with raytraced reflections....