Brazil R/S
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It was used by computer graphics artists to generate content for print, online content, broadcast solutions and feature films. Some major examples are Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,[1] Sin City,[2] Superman Returns[3] and The Incredibles.[4]
Imagination Technologies announced Brazil's end-of-life, effective May 14, 2012.[5]
PowerVR Brazil SDK
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Splutterfish was acquired by Caustic Graphics in 2008[6] (which was later acquired by Imagination Technologies in December 2010.)[7]
After Splutterfish's acquisition by Caustic Graphics, they began a rewrite of Brazil r/s using Caustic's OpenRL API to leverage Caustic's raytracing hardware. The new render engine was initially publicly called the "Brazil 3.0 SDK"[8] but was later renamed the "PowerVR Brazil SDK".) [9]
The PowerVR Brazil SDK was used in Caustic Visualizer, a real-time rendering plugin for Maya and SketchUp, and Neon, a viewport rendering plugin for Rhinoceros 3D.[10] Caustic Visualizer for Maya and R2100/R2500 hardware were EOLed on June 13, 2014[11][12] and Caustic Visualizer for SketchUp was EOLed on March 23, 2015.[13]
In 2015 Imagination Technologies introduced the PowerVR Wizard GPU architecture, that integrated Imagination's hardware raytracing cores. Wizard replaced the OpenRL API with vendor-specific OpenGL ES raytracing extensions. The Brazil SDK, using its internal name 'Resin', was updated to demo the new architecture.[14]
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- ↑ Imagination previews Brazil 3.0 Beta running on OpenRL at SIGGRAPH 2011 Imagination Technologies August 9, 2011
- ↑ [1] Imagination Technologies
- ↑ Can raytracing really kill raster graphics? CG Channel February 5, 2013
- ↑ End-of-Life Announcement - Caustic Series2 Ray Tracing Accelerator Cards & Visualizer for Autodesk Maya Imagination Technologies
- ↑ Imagination retires Caustic Visualizer for Maya CG Channel July 7th, 2014
- ↑ Visualizer for SketchUp - Official End-of-Product Announcement Imagination Technologies
- ↑ Ray Tracing on the Wizard GPU Template:Webarchive Imagination Technologies 2016