Latest ART VPS Ray Tracing Hardware Optimized For Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X

New PURE PCI Card For High Performance Rendering And Graphic Design

MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 11, 2005 – ART VPS today announced the latest release of PURE - accelerated rendering hardware specifically designed to harness the core graphics technologies of Mac OS X and high performance of the Power Mac G5. The new system employs modular ray-tracing architecture to accelerate 3D rendering by distributing it across an array of chips. Users can now generate full-frame previews in seconds and utilize advanced features including multiple area lights, accurate 3D motion blur, secondary illumination,camera properties and special RenderMan shaders.

“The Power Mac G5 delivers outstanding performance in graphics intensive applications,” said Brian Tyler, ART VPS CEO. “When combinedwith our dedicated ray-tracing hardware and the excellent core graphicstechnologies in Mac OS X, PURE will be welcomed by any user who needs to generate high-quality, photorealistic images in record time.”

“We’re thrilled ART VPS is now developing next generation imaging hardware for the Mac OS X and Power Mac G5 platform,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “This powerful new PURE PCI card, combined with the latest Apple innovations, will deliver great ray-tracing and 3D graphics rendering.”

A demonstration running this latest generation of the PURE PCI card containing eight ART VPS AR350 ray-tracing processors will be shown in booth #2345 at MacWorld San Francisco 2005.


The latest PURE card for Mac OS X can be purchased immediately from the ART VPS online store at artvps.com; it comes complete with full support for the Mac OS X version of Alias Maya.

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