Mental Ray

Mental Ray (proper spelling: mental ray ) is a renderer developed by mental images GmbH and promoted by Autodesk and Dassault Systèmes and sold. The company was founded in Berlin in 1986 and was acquired by Nvidia in 2007.

The renderer is among others in the 3D packages Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage integrated and allows to calculate there naturalistic- realistic but also symbolizes - unrealistic scenes like comics. In the film industry, he is next to a RenderMan renderer you use most. Mental Ray supported early technologies such as global illumination ( global illumination ) and Final Gather. In films such as Star Wars: Episode III and the Lord of the Rings trilogy Mental Ray shows what it is capable, in collaboration with other programs and techniques ( post-production is very important, that is, the color matching and much more without the result would be not the same ).

Supported technologies include global illumination, Indirect Illumination, caustics, final gather, as well as ray tracing depth and motion blur.

Some examples that were created with the help of ray tracing and global illumination or final gather, are located on the right.