Date: 03/02/2010 Views: 202
YafaRay is a free open-source raytracing engine. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene.
A render engine consists of a "faceless" computer program that interacts with a host 3D application to provide specific raytracing capabilties "on demand". Blender 3D is the host application of YafaRay.
YafaRay is released under the LGPL 2.1 license. Download YafaRay in the downloads section.
Tase has posted a detailed tutorial in the Tutorials Section about his camera mappin technique, which mixes YafaRay renders with real pictures. Tase has been able to produce really good images with this technique. You can see some of his renders in this forum thread. Read the tutorial in the link below:
This year we'll try to get Yafaray into the GSoC program. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, held from May to August , in which Google awards stipends to students who successfully complete a requested free software / open-source coding project during the summer. The program is open to students aged 18 or over. To apply for GSoC, we must put together an Ideas Page, where we explain a bit which projects could be useful for YafaRay. This is our ideas page:
GSoC 2010 - YafaRay Ideas Page.
We are looking for students and mentors for the projects listed in our ideas page. We are also interested in users, prospective students and mentors' input to improve it. If you want to participate, please use this forum thread to express your opinions and to talk about your areas of interest. You can also contact us in the chat room.
The YafaRay Project and Software in the Public Interest (SPI) are pleased to announce an agreement to place Yafaray under the SPI umbrella as an associated project. SPI is an non-profit organization which was founded to help projects develop and distribute free open source software and hardware. SPI sponsors renowned projects like Debian, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL and others:
We have chosen this method because it helps us to handle monetary matters in an honest, aseptic and transparent way and to concentrate on what we like the most, raytracing. The advantages of joining SPI are not limited to raising donations in a neat way; SPI can use its leverage to reach agreements with corporations on other matters, for the benefit of associated projects. As a consequence of this event, we have set up a 'Donate' page to allow for donations. Take a look for more details:
Samo writes:
This is the material support of the Crash Course on YafaRay I did three weeks ago in Murcia, Spain.
I have included some practical comments about different questions you won't be able to find in the official User's Guide, so please take a look at it. It can be used too as a quick introduction to YafaRay and general raytracing techniques, for teachers preparing lessons about raytracing and lecturers in local users groups.
Perspective machine by Albrecht Dürer, The Painter's Manual, 1525.
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