Structural Biology Software Database
Application Index Record
| Category: Molecular Visualization |
| Tachyon |
| Last Update: 01-18-2001 |
| Description: Tachyon is a parallel/multiprocessor ray tracing system designed to render images at high quality, very very quickly. It is written in C, runs on almost any platform, and achieves parallelism through the use of MPI and/or threads. Tachyon is well suited for scientific visualization as it is optimized for speed with large amounts of geometry. It has most of the features one would expect out of a good ray tracer, and has been in development for several years. Tachyon has been used to render very complex scenes containing millions of objects for molecular visualization and rendering of Mars planetary radar data. |
| Homepage: http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/ |
| Screenshots Page: http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/raygallery/stills.html |
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