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posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-you-see-it dept.

The Evermotion team just release the Nox rendering software under the Apache license.

NOX physically based renderer, fully integrated with Blender and 3ds Max (and with C4D support) is now Open Source. We release it on Apache license - free to commercial use and modifications.

You can freely improve and modify this render engine, integrate it with any 3d software, write plugins for NOX, use it in your commercial works and / or sell it. The possibilities are endless and depend only on you.

Main features of NOX:

  • physical based engine
  • enhanced post-processing
  • rendering to layers
  • real and fake DoF (Depth of Field)
  • instancing and displacement
  • subsurface scattering

tonyPick adds:

From the overview page:

NOX is a free stand-alone, physically-accurate state-of-an-art renderer. Its engine is based on unbiased methods. Global illumination is evaluated using Path Tracing or Bidirectional Path Tracing. Light behavior is based on laws of physics, however some simplifications occur. Many post-production actions can be done in NOX internally, so no additional software is necessary. NOX works with scenes created and imported from 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema4D.

The release is available at http://www.evermotion.org/nox/downloads

It looks to be a straight dump of the code (a 424MB bundle!) and appears to be a working directory snapshot complete with binary artifacts. It appears to be for MSVC (no obvious Git, SVN or similar), C++, windows code, Apache licensed.

There's some discussion started over at blenderartists on how the Blender 3D software application, and the associated path tracing engine (called Cycles) may benefit from this release.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:36AM (#86173)

    US to boost military manhunt capabilities with RFID satellites

    Published time: May 22, 2013 01:32
    Edited time: May 22, 2013 04:26

    http://rt.com/usa/advances-mideast-tracking-satellite-601/ [rt.com]

    Image: http://img.rt.com/files/news/1f/27/10/00/us-satellite-launch.si.jpg [rt.com]

    "A Minotaur 1 rocket, carrying the Operationally Responsive Space 1 (ORS 1) satellite,
    lifts off from Wallop Island, Virginia in this undated handout photograph provided June
    30, 2011 (REUTERS/Thom Baur/Orbital Sciences/Handout)"

    The US military is planning to launch a new, efficient method of sending small satellites into space which will dramatically boost soldiers’ ability to locate, track and eventually annihilate potential enemies.

    The military has spent years quietly developing and implementing radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track Taliban leaders, suspected terrorists, and other perceived enemies. Tribesmen in the Middle East are paid to “plant the electronic devices” on the intended targets or the targets’ home, according to a 2009 report in The Guardian.

    The device can be tracked to within three feet of its location, providing targeting co-ordinates that have become integral in launching drone strikes.

    “Transmitters make a lot of sense to me,” former CIA case officer Robert Baer told Wired in 2009. “It is simply not possible to train a Pashtun from Waziristan to go to a targeted site, case it, and come back to Peshawar or Islamabad with anything like an accurate report. The best you can hope for it they’re putting the transmitter right on the house.”

    The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) will advance that strategy with the September rocket launch from Wallops, Virginia. Attached to the sides of the rocket will be eight devices that will be dispersed 300 miles above Earth then act as beacons for US intelligence.

    Wired noted that each of the eight satellites is roughly the size of a “water jug.”

    This is not America’s first foray into using outer space for gaining intelligence. A 2009 test program launched similar location devices to great success, with special operations officials later reporting that the technology was used to help locate Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

    But the military’s reliance on less-than-trustworthy operatives to carry out the most important part of such an expensive mission, locating the original target, has some people very concerned. Recruiting and paying poor people in hostile countries to carry out dangerous tasks could have intended, but serious, consequences.

    In a video released in April 2009, 19-year-old Habibur Rehman, reading a script written by the Taliban, who then executed him on film, claimed he was so desperate for money that he took advantage of his US handlers.

    “I was given $122 to drop chips wrapped in cigarette paper at Al Qaeda and Taliban houses,” Rehman said, before being shot for spying for the US. “If I was successful, I was told, I would be given thousands of dollars.”

    A US official told NBC News that the video was nothing more than “extremist propaganda,” but it does raise moral questions surrounding drone warfare and targeted killings in the modern era.

    “I thought this was a very easy job,” Rehman went on. “The money was good so I started throwing chips all over. I knew people were dying because of what I was doing, but I needed the money.”

    Tags: Arms, Drones, Gizmos, Information Technology, Middle East, SciTech, Space, Terrorism, USA

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:54AM (#86181)

      I think you sharted a troll, story, comment...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @12:15PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @12:15PM (#86192)

        Why don't you 3D print someone who cares?

        • (Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Wednesday August 27 2014, @01:40PM

          by zafiro17 (234) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @01:40PM (#86220) Homepage

          Nothing is duller than a flame war between two anonymous cowards.

          --
          Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @01:49PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @01:49PM (#86225)

            "Nothing is more dull than a flame war between two anonymous cowards." - FTFY

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @04:30PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @04:30PM (#86335)

            True dat. Pseudonymity makes all the difference!

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:09PM (#86237)

    It's good to be exact when it comes to licenses.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @08:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @08:35PM (#87361)

    Apparently Wangblows only. Useless to me...