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Tachyon (software)

Tachyon is a parallel/multiprocessor ray tracing software. It is a parallel ray tracing library for use on distributed memory parallel computers, shared memory computers, and clusters of workstations. Tachyon implements rendering features such as ambient occlusion lighting, depth-of-field focal blur, shadows, reflections, and others. It was originally…

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Use in parallel computing demonstrations, training, and benchmarking

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License
BSD-3-Clause
Original author
John E. Stone
Type
Ray tracing/3D rendering software
Written in
C

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Evolution and features

Use in parallel computing demonstrations, training, and benchmarking

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Tachyon (software)

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License · 1
Tachyon (software) → BSD-3-Clause
Original author · 1
Tachyon (software) → John E. Stone
Type · 1
Tachyon (software) → Ray tracing/3D rendering software
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Tachyon (software) → jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/tachyon/
Written in · 1
Tachyon (software) → C

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Tachyon (software)LicenseBSD-3-Clause1.00infobox
Tachyon (software)Original authorJohn E. Stone1.00infobox
Tachyon (software)TypeRay tracing/3D rendering software1.00infobox
Tachyon (software)Websitejedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/tachyon/1.00infobox
Tachyon (software)Written inC1.00infobox
ambient occlusion lightinginstance ofTachyon implements rendering features0.80text
depth-of-field focal blurinstance ofTachyon implements rendering features0.80text
shadowsinstance ofTachyon implements rendering features0.80text
reflectionsinstance ofTachyon implements rendering features0.80text
and othersinstance ofTachyon implements rendering features0.80text
VMDinstance ofand it is now incorporated into a number of other open source software packages0.80text
and SageMathinstance ofand it is now incorporated into a number of other open source software packages0.80text

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