{"id":60189,"date":"2019-02-14T02:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T09:34:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-02-14T02:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T09:34:28","slug":"octanerender-a-beginners-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/octanerender-a-beginners-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"OctaneRender: A beginner’s guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time unbiased rendering was barely touched by a wide range of render engines. This was because an unbiased render solution was computationally intensive and therefore very slow. This was a great shame, as from a user\u2019s perspective an unbiased rendering solution offered \u2018true\u2019 physical lighting exactly as would be seen by the naked eye or the lens of a camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OctaneRender from OTOY was one of the pioneers of moving the computationally intensive tasks of unbiased rendering over to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU, otherwise known as the graphics card), which is able to divide tasks across a much greater number of parallel cores. By using GPUs, all of a sudden unbiased renders could be achieved in minutes on a single machine instead of hours or days \u2013 as was the norm before using CPU rendering.\u00a0<\/p>\n