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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…
Applications, Evolution and features & Use in parallel computing demonstrations, training, and benchmarking
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| Tachyon (software) | License | BSD-3-Clause | 1.00 | infobox |
| Tachyon (software) | Original author | John E. Stone | 1.00 | infobox |
| Tachyon (software) | Type | Ray tracing/3D rendering software | 1.00 | infobox |
| Tachyon (software) | Website | jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/tachyon/ | 1.00 | infobox |
| Tachyon (software) | Written in | C | 1.00 | infobox |
| ambient occlusion lighting | instance of | Tachyon implements rendering features | 0.80 | text |
| depth-of-field focal blur | instance of | Tachyon implements rendering features | 0.80 | text |
| shadows | instance of | Tachyon implements rendering features | 0.80 | text |
| reflections | instance of | Tachyon implements rendering features | 0.80 | text |
| and others | instance of | Tachyon implements rendering features | 0.80 | text |
| VMD | instance of | and it is now incorporated into a number of other open source software packages | 0.80 | text |
| and SageMath | instance of | and it is now incorporated into a number of other open source software packages | 0.80 | text |
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