lucille is a fast, next-gen, cutting-edge global illumination renderer with programmable shading engine.

lucille supports RenderMan(R) interface so you can use lucille as a replacement of exising RenderMan(R) compiliant renderer.

lucille's ultimate goal is to develop next-gen de-facto standard global illumination render, not to develop RenderMan(R) compliant renderer though.

• Efficient ray tracing and global illumination computation.
• Fully analytic rendering(no noise rendering, R&D phase).
• Support for RIB( The RenderMan(R) Interface Bytestream ) file format.
• Support for RenderMan Shading Language with JIT execution(R&D phase).
• Multicore ready, SIMD optimized. Designed for fully unleashing the processor power.
• Highly portable architecture.

lucille is written in very portable C, thus lucille will run various platform and processors. At this time, fully tested platforms are,

• Mac OS X ( x86, 32bit and 64bit )
• Linux ( x86, 32bit and 64bit )
• Windows ( MinGW or CYGWIN )

Edit ''custom.py'' if required, then type :

$ make

to build the lucille.

See ''INSTALL'' for more help.

''bin/lsh'', lucille renderer command, will be build after compilation finishes successfully.

Type following to render example scene.

$ cd bin
$ ./lsh ../examples/ambient_occlusion/ambient_occlusion.rib

You'll see ''ambient_occlusion.hdr'' in the current directory. The file is a HDR file. You can see this image with HDR ready image viewer. If you build lucille with ''with_x11'' option, you'll see the rendering image during rendering is running.

lucille has its own HDR image viewer called Rockenfield, which is located at $(lucille)/tools/rockenfield. To use Rockenfield, you need manually build it by, :

$ cd tools/rockenfield
$ make

Note that FLTK 1.1.9 is required to build Rockenfield.

To see HDR image with Rockenfield, type, :

$ rockenfield <image.hdr>

See ''doc'' directory.

• home page http://lucille.sourceforge.net/
• project management site http://redmine.s21g.com/projects/show/lucille

lucille is distributed under BSD3 license. See ''LICENSE'' for more information on licensing.

2003-2203 Syoyo FUJITA( syoyofujita@gmail.com )

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