Thursday, 09 July 2009
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NVIDIA - Gelato Pro 2.1
The NVIDIA® Gelato® Pro software application is a breakthrough GPU-accelerated, final-frame renderer that produces images of the highest quality. Originally designed for film and TV effects and animation, Gelato is useful for any application that requires high-quality rendering including game development, CAD, industrial design, architecture, etc.
High-level Gelato functionality includes:
- Antialiased texture, environment, and shadow mapping
- Motion blur
- Raytracing
- True displacement
- Automatic adaptive tessellation
- Ambient occlusion & global illumination
- Plug-ins for use with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max
NVIDIA Gelato Pro 2.1 comes in two varieties: a basic version that is free to download and Gelato Pro that is for sale. Both are high-quality renderers with rich feature sets. Gelato Pro, however, includes additional features that enhance its utility in a professional production environment and also comes with support from NVIDIA's High-Quality Rendering team.
The features that are unique to Gelato Pro are:
- Sorbetto interactive relighting
- Network parallel rendering (using a network to render a single image faster than one computer alone)
- Multithreading
- Native 64-bit support
- DSO shadeops
- Maintenance & support services from NVIDIA
- Advanced access to new features


