appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-2 Released

August 1, 2010

We just released appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-2. This release introduces full support for the Mac OS X platform, as well as a new cross-platform build system. Read more...

New Quick Start Guide

July 8, 2010

There is a new Quick Start guide to help you with installing and using appleseed. Check it out, it's rather succinct and will get you started with appleseed in a few minutes.

Screenshots

July 7, 2010

I uploaded a handful of screenshots of appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-1. Check them out here.

appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-1 Released

July 5, 2010

We're proud to announce the very first public version of appleseed, appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-1.

At the moment, only a 32-bit build for Windows is available for this release. Read more...

appleseed Early Preview - New Progressive Rendering Videos

January 23, 2010

Here are two videos illustrating the new progressive rendering architecture in appleseed. The new design is much simpler, allows higher quality sampling, avoids QMC sampling and tile boundary artifacts, and provide homogeneous refinement across the whole image. Read more...

appleseed Early Preview - Progressive Rendering Videos

January 19, 2010

Progressive rendering of the original Cornell Box scene (unbiased, 31-channel spectral path tracing; all computations—excepted spectral computations—performed in double precision; running on a mobile Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 at 2.4 GHz under Windows Vista). Read more...

New Cornell Box Images

November 3, 2009

I uploaded two high quality Cornell Box renders to the main gallery, mostly to test the gallery module. I like it so far. We'll have to see how it scales up, though.