3D World Magazine, the international magazine for 3D artists, has awarded PURE a maximum 5 out of 5 score in a review of ART’s 3D rendering PCI card. Published in Issue 20 of the magazine, the review highlights PURE’s unsurpassed render quality and unbelievable speed.
“Overall, we cannot fault its quality. PURE is something most, if not all, 3D artists have dreamed of: fast, superb render quality and at an affordable price. This card offers you an easy learning curve, handy and concise documentation, helpful sample files and friendly support with added wow factor. Superb!”
PURE is ART’s low-cost, small form-factor 3D rendering solution that brings the company’s award-winning 3D rendering technology to all visualization and animation professionals in the architectural, industrial design and animation industries. PURE renders images up to 16X faster than software-based ray tracing and can simultaneously deliver higher quality images through its silicon chip accelerated ray tracing architecture. Installed within a windows-compatible graphics workstation, PURE brings the power of a render farm onto a designer’s desktop.
ART’s PURE PCI card is based on proprietary hardware and software that utilizes physically-accurate rendering methods to produce convincing lighting, realistic textures, and lifelike reflections on a variety of materials. With software-based rendering, generating high quality images requires massive computing resources or long production times. Using ART’s unique physically based AR350 rendering chips, PURE is able to deliver photographic images far more productively and more cost effectively than ever before. With eight AR350 chips, the PURE P1800 is capable of performing over 1.1 Billion ray/triangle intersection tests each second.
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With RenderDrive the number of details we are able to resolve and refine based on the rendering alone, without prototyping or making physical models, is remarkable.
