Animated Render of Marina using iRender

   Here is an example of a preliminary render of the Marina concept model using a rendering plugin for SU called iRendernXt. I had used nXt in Rhino3d years ago and thought it was the best rendering engine to come along in years. Rhino3D had been using a version of Accurender called Flamingo3D. Accurender had been developed for AutoCAD ages ago by Robert McNeel and Assoc, and had fairly popular in Architecture. RMA had good success within the Acad market and then went on to develope Rhino3D. AutoDesk had licensed the programming kernel that Rhino was based on and when Rhino had matured into a stand alone app rather than a 3d plugin for AutoCad, AutoDesk wanted to buy them out. RMA didn't want to be on the growing list of small developers that were suffering this fate, so they wrote their own kernel and are now have Rhino V5 in Beta. Flamingo never got much attention and nXt was a new approach for a renderer and is now available for SU, AutoCad, and Rhino3D.


http://irendernxt.com/main
http://www.accurender.com/
http://nxt.flamingo3d.com/

     Enough of the history, here are the results; I'll post similar files done from Rhino3D later...  Its big, but the resolution is much better that the SU animation from the scene files.


   After posting and viewing, I realize that the video get resized and compressed for viewing here on the blog, this doesn't really show the improvements over the standard SU animation. I'll see if I can put a link to the full size video.