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specificationes
AVALON Specifications
Available Graphics
Features
Software Support

  • Raytracing core
  • Per ray(subpixel) Phong, Blinn, Metal, Anisotropic, Oren-Nayar-Blinn shading, configurable / programmable
  • Reflexion, Refraction, Raytraced- & Soft-Shadows
  • Caustics, Global illumination
  • Volumetric/Area-lights, RealLight simulation
  • Texture [2D-Bitmaps]:
    • Diffuse, Alpha maps
    • Reflexion/Refraction maps
    • Bump map
    • Shadow map
  • Procedual Textures: 2D/3D with Noise, Turbulence
  • Antialiasing
  • DisplayDirect technology to display movies or TV in 3D-space
  • Own Graphics Extension Driver
  • DirectX 9.0 (on Microsoft WindowsTM
  • based systems)
  • X-Windows (on Unix machines)
  • OpenGL 1.3 / 2.0
  • Operates in parallel with other graphical systems
  • Supported operating systems
    • WindowsTM
    • 9x/NT/2000/XP/Me
    • Linux
    • BeOS
    • AmigaOS
    • MacOS
    • Solaris
    • Other as soon as possible
  • May use all display modes the operating system can offer



Graphics Performance Hardware Features

  • Complex scene handling on chip
    • Up to 64M triangles of any size but unmovable (dep. on Host-Memory)
    • Up to 40K-80K triangles of any size for movable objects
  • Render rate: 50M Pixels/s (1600 x 1200 Pixels, 25 times a second) with all triangles fully featured
  • Single pass rendering

  • Uses AVALON Very Fast Triangle Search (VFTS)
  • AGP 4x/Pro or PCI interface
  • On board texture and 3D-Memory expandable up to 4GB
  • Fully scalable (more than one chip/graphics card can work together)
  • Automated load balancing


Service And Support System Requirements

  • 24h support, 7 days a week
  • Immense developer support
    • Manuals
    • Test boards
    • Sample source
    • Less expensive entry

  • Pentium III/IV or Athlon Processor
  • 256MB Ram (min.)
  • Free AGP 4x/Pro or PCI slot


c/o Jesko Schwarzer
Langemarckstr. 4
53227 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 228 944240-0
Fax: +49 (0) 228 944240-6
E-Mail: jesko@realtime-raytracing.com
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