lucille is a fast, next-gen, cutting-edge global illumination renderer with programmable shading engine.
lucille supports RenderMan(R) interface so you can use lucille as a replacement of exising RenderMan(R) compiliant renderer.
lucille's ultimate goal is to develop next-gen de-facto standard global illumination render, not to develop RenderMan(R) compliant renderer though.
- Efficient ray tracing and global illumination computation.
- Fully analytic rendering(no noise, experimental feature).
- Support for RIB( The RenderMan(R) Interface Bytestream ) file format.
- Support for RenderMan Shading Language with JIT execution.
- Multicore ready, SIMD optimized. Designed for fully unleash the processor power.
- Highly portable architecture.
lucille is written in very portable C, thus lucille will run various platform and processors. At this time, fully tested platforms are,
- Mac OS X ( x86, 32bit and 64bit )
- Linux ( x86, 32bit and 64bit )
- Windows ( MinGW or CYGWIN )
Edit ''custom.py'' if required, then type
$ make
to build the lucille.
See ''INSTALL'' for more help.
''bin/lsh'', lucille renderer command, will be build after compilation finishes successfully.
Type following to render example scene.
$ cd bin $ ./lsh ../examples/ambient_occlusion/ambient_occlusion.rib
You'll see ''ambient_occlusion.hdr'' in the current directory. The file is a HDR file. You can see this image with HDR ready image viewer. If you build lucille with ''with_x11'' option, you'll see the rendering image during rendering is running.
lucille has its own HDR image viewer called Rockenfield, which is located at $(lucille)/tools/rockenfield
. To use Rockenfield, you need manually build it by,
$ cd tools/rockenfield $ make
Note that FLTK 1.1.9 is required to build Rockenfield.
To see HDR image with Rockenfield, type,
$ rockenfield <image.hdr>
See ''doc'' directory.
- home page http://lucille.sourceforge.net/
- project management site http://redmine.s21g.com/projects/show/lucille
lucille is distributed under BSD3 license. See ''LICENSE'' for more information on licensing.
2003-2203 Syoyo FUJITA( [email protected] )
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