The OSPRay v0.9.0 release adds significant new features as well as API
changes.
- Experimental support for data-distributed MPI-parallel volume
rendering - New SciVis-focused renderer ("raytracer" or "scivis") combining
functionality of "obj" and "ao" renderers - Ambient occlusion is quite flexible: dynamic number of samples,
maximum ray distance, and weight - Updated Embree version to v2.7.1 with native support for AVX512 for
triangle mesh surface rendering on the Intel Xeon Phi processor
(codename Knights Landing) - OSPRay now uses C++11 features, requiring up to date compiler and
standard library versions (GCC v4.8.0) - Optimization of volume sampling resulting in volume rendering
speedups of up to 1.5x - Updates to pathtracer
- Reworked material system
- Added texture transformations and colored transparency in OBJ
material - Support for alpha and depth components of framebuffer
- Added thinlens camera, i.e. support for depth of field
- Tasking system has been updated to use Intel® Threading Building
Blocks (TBB) - The
ospGet*()API calls have been deprecated and will be removed
in a subsequent release