| Type | Subsidiary of Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Industry | CGI, Computer software |
| Founded | April 1986, Berlin |
| Headquarters | HQ in Berlin, Germany |
| Key people | Rolf Herken, President, CEO and CTO |
| Products | mental ray, RealityServer, mental mill, MetaSL, mental mesh, iray, DiCE |
| Employees | 80 |
| Parent | Nvidia |
| Website | mentalimages.com |
mental images GmbH is a computer generated imagery (CGI) software firm based in Berlin, Germany. The company provides rendering and 3D modeling technology for entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization and architecture.
The company was founded by the physicists and computer scientists Rolf Herken, Hans-Christian Hege, Robert Hödicke and Wolfgang Krüger and the economists Günter Ansorge, Frank Schnöckel and Hans Peter Plettner as a company with limited liability & private limited partnership (GmbH & Co. KG) in April 1986 in Berlin, Germany. In 2003 mental images completed an investment round led by ViewPoint Ventures and another large international private equity investor. Since Dec 2007 mental images GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NVIDIA corporation[1] with headquarters in Berlin, subsidiaries in San Francisco (mental images Inc.) and Melbourne (mental images Pty. Ltd.) as well as an office in Stockholm.
mental images is the developer of the rendering software mental ray, iray, mental mill, RealityServer, and DiCE.