Package: tachyon (0.99~b6+dsx-12)

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Parallel/Multiprocessor Standalone Ray Tracer - metapackage

Tachyon is a portable, high performance parallel ray tracing system supporting MPI and multithreaded implementations. Tachyon is built as a C callable library, which can be used within applications.

Tachyon implements all of the basic geometric primitives such as triangles, planes, spheres, cylinders, etc. Some of the goals in developing Tachyon were to make it fast and for it to parallelize well. These are what set it apart from more full-featured programs like POV-Ray, Rayshade, and others. Tachyon supports enough features to be an excellent alternative to slower programs for demanding animation and scientific visualization tasks.

This metapackage allows multi-variant support for tools built upon tachyon.

Tags: Implemented in: C, Role: Program, Works with: 3D Model

Other Packages Related to tachyon

• dep: tachyon-bin-nox

  Parallel/Multiprocessor Standalone Ray Tracer - with no X support

  or tachyon-bin

  virtual package provided by tachyon-bin-nox, tachyon-bin-ogl

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