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 Kerkythea is capable of rendering photorealistic caustics and global illumination. |
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| Developer(s) | Ioannis Pantazopoulos |
| Stable release | Kerkythea 2008 Echo / 2008-10-18 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X |
| Type | 3D Graphics Software |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | Kerkythea |
Kerkythea is a rendering system that supports raytracing. Currently, it can be integrated with 3ds Max, Blender, SketchUp, Silo and Wings3D (generally any software that can export files in obj and 3ds formats). Kerkythea is a standalone renderer, using physically accurate materials and lighting. It is distributed as freeware.
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History
Kerkythea started development in 2004 and released its first version on April 2005. Initially it was only compatible with Microsoft Windows but an updated release on October 2005 made it Linux compatible. It is now also available for Mac OS X. In May 2009 it was announced that the development team started a new commercial renderer, although Kerkythea will be updated and it will stay free.
Exporters
There are 6 official exporters for Kerkythea.
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- Blend2KT
- Exporter to XML format
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- 3dsMax2KT 3dsMax Exporter
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- GMax2KT GMax Exporter
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- SU2KT SketchUp Exporter
- SU2KT Light Components
Features
Supported 3D File Formats
Supported Image Formats
Supported Materials
- Matte
- Perfect Reflections/Refractions
- Blurry Reflections/Refractions
- Translucency (SSS)
- Dielectric Material
- Thin Glass Material
- Phong shading Material
- Ward Anisotropic Material
- Anisotropic Ashikhmin Material
- Lafortune Material
- Layered Material [Additive Combination of the Above with use of Alpha Maps]
Supported Shapes
Supported Lights
- Omni Light
- Spot Light
- Projector Light
- Point Diffuse
- Area Diffuse
- Point Light Spherical Soft Shadows
- Ambient Lighting
- Sky Lighting [Physical Sky, SkySphere Bitmap (Normal or HDRI)]
Supported Textures
- Constant Colors
- Bitmaps (Normal and HDRI)
- Procedurals [Perlin Noise, Marble, Wood, Windy, Checker, Wireframe, Normal Ramp, Fresnel Ramp]
- Any Weighted or Multiplicative Combination of the Above
Supported Features
- Bump Mapping
- Normal Mapping
- Clip Mapping
- Bevel Mapping (an innovative KT feature!)
- Edge Outlining
- Depth of field
- Fog
- Isotropic Volume Scattering
- Faked Caustics
- Faked Translucency
- Dispersion
- Anti-aliasing [Texture Filtering, Edge Antialiasing]
- Selection Rendering
- Surface and Material Instancing
Supported Camera Types
Supported Rendering Techniques
- Classic Ray Tracing
- Path Tracing (Kajiya)
- Bidirectional Path Tracing (Veach & Guibas)
- Metropolis Light Transport (Kelemen, Kalos et al.)
- Photon mapping (Jensen) [mesh maps, photon maps, final gathering, irradiance caching, caustics]
- Diffuse Interreflection (Ward)
- Depth Rendering
- Mask Rendering
- Clay Rendering
Application Environment
- OpenGL Real-Time Viewer [basic staging capabilities]
- Integrated Material Editor
- Easy Rendering Customization
- Sun/Sky Customization
- Script System
- Command Line Mode
External links
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