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Mental Ray (stylized as mental ray) was a production-quality ray tracing application for 3D rendering. Its Berlin-based developer Mental Images was acquired by Nvidia in 2007.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Ray | Developer | Nvidia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | Final release | 3.14 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | License | Proprietary software | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | Operating system | Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | Original author | Mental Images | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | Release | 1989; 37 years ago (1989) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | Type | Rendering system | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | Website | www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-mental-ray-products.html | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mental Ray | is a | achievement of high performance through parallelism on both multiprocessor machines and across render farms | 0.90 | text |
| scanline for primary visible surface determination | instance of | The software uses acceleration techniques | 0.80 | text |
| binary space partitioning for secondary rays via ray tracing | instance of | The software uses acceleration techniques | 0.80 | text |
| and used Quasi-Monte Carlo methods to solve the underlying light transport simulation | instance of | The software uses acceleration techniques | 0.80 | text |
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