Kerkythea

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Kerkythea

A photorealistic crystal ball displaying caustics and global illumination
Developer:	Ioannis Pantazopoulos
Latest release:	Kerkythea 2007 / Febrary 08, 2007
OS:	Microsoft Windows, Linux
Use:	3D Graphics Software
License:	Freeware
Website:	Kerkythea

Kerkythea is a freeware rendering system that supports raytracing. It can be used with 3ds Max, Blender, SketchUp, Silo or any software that can export files in obj and 3ds formats. Kerkythea is a standalone renderer, using physically accurate materials and lights.

1 History
2 Exporters
3 Features
4 External links

[edit] History

Kerkythea started development in 2004 and released its first version in April 2005. Initially it was Microsoft Windows only but in October 2005 a version for Linux was released.

[edit] Exporters

There are 6 official exporters for Kerkythea

Blender
-Blend2KT
-Exporter to XML format

3D Studio Max
-3dsMax2KT 3dsMax Exporter

GMax
-GMax2KT GMax Exporter

SketchUp
-SU2KT SketchUp Exporter
-SU2KT Light Components

[edit] Features

Supported 3D File Formats

3DS Format
OBJ Format
XML (internal) Format
SIA (Silo) Format (partially supported)

Supported Image Formats

All supported by FreeImage library [ JPG, BMP, PNG, TGA, HDR included]

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

Triangulated Meshes
Sphere
Planes

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
Faced Translucency
Dispersion
Anti-aliasing [Texture Filtering, Edge Antialiasing]
Selection Rendering
Surface and Material Instancing

Supported Camera Types

Planar Projection [Pinhole, Thin Lens]
Cylindrical Pinhole
Spherical Pinhole

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