NVIDIA releases DesignWorks

Source: NVIDIA blog. One image is a photo, the other was rendered interactively using NVIDIA DesignWorks technology. The company created a digital model of a 18-volt DeWalt power drill  to display side by side with a live high-definition image of the real thing at the SIGGRAPH conference. NVIDIA wanted to give designers the ability to see photorealistic images of their products, without the need for a rendering farm. The company used 3DS Max — a widely used digital design tool — and its own Iray plugin to create this model. 

NVIDIA has announced DesignWorks, a set of software tools, libraries and technologies for the developers behind the design software.

DesignWorks supports physically based rendering (PBR) and physically based materials as well as applications where accuracy is important, for example when an architect needs to understand how sunlight will reflect off exterior windows. DesignWorks will also ensue that different display formats and channels will be available, from desktops and multi-display walls to virtual reality and remotely.

Tools in the DesignWorks suite include:

NVIDIA Iray SDK — a calibrated, physically based rendering and light simulation framework, which now includes new algorithms that cut the time to visualise design changes.

NVIDIA Material Definition Language (MDL) — a technology to create and share digital models of real-world materials between applications. MDL will also be available soon as a software development kit.

NVIDIA vMaterials — a collection of calibrated and verified materials for use in MDL-based applications.

NVIDIA OptiX — a framework for building ray-tracing applications. OptiX now includes support for the NVIDIA Visual Computing Appliance.

DesignWorks VR — a suite of tools for incorporating virtual reality into design software.

Ankit Patel, Senior Product Manager, NVIDIA, shared in a blog post that major 3D design applications already incorporate these tools.

Iray is in applications such as Dassault Systèmes CATIA; Autodesk VRED uses NVIDIA'S VR technologies to provide immersive experiences and materials creation applications such as Substance Designer by Allegorithmic and renderers such as Chaos V-Ray and NVIDIA’s own mental ray support MDL.

Interested?

Read the NVIDIA blog post on DesignWorks
Read the NVIDIA blog post on the 18-volt DeWalt power drill

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