AVALON

• Raytracing core
• Per pixel Phong,Blinn,Metal,Anisotropic,Oren-Nayar-Blinn shading, configurable/programmable
• Reflexion, Refraction, Raytraced- & Soft-Shadows
• Caustics, Global illumination
• Volumetric/Area-lights, RealLight simulation
• Texture [2D-Bitmaps]:
• Diffuse, Alpha maps
• Reflexion/Refraction maps
• Bump map
• Shadow map
• Procedual Textures: 2D/3D with Noise, Turbulence
• Antialiasing
• DisplayDirect technology to display movies or TV in 3D-space

• Own Graphics Extension Driver
• DirectX 8.0 (on Microsoft Windows^TM based systems)
• X-Windows (on Unix machines)
• OpenGL
• Operates in parallel with other graphical systems
• Supported operating systems
• Windows^TM 9x/NT/2000
• Linux
• BeOS
• AmigaOS
• MacOS
• Solaris
• Other as soon as possible
• May use all display modes the operating system can offer

• Complex scene handling on chip
  • Up to 64M triangles of any size but unmovable (dep. on Host-Memory)
  • Up to 40K-80K triangles of any size for movable objects
• Render rate: 50M Pixels/s (1600 x 1200 Pixels, 25 times a second) with all triangles fully featured
• Single pass rendering

• Uses AVALON Very Fast Triangle Search (VFTS)
• AGP 4x/Pro or PCI interface
• On board texture and 3D-Memory expandable up to 4GB
• Fully scalable (more than one chip/graphics card can work together)
• Automated load balancing

• 24h support, 7 days a week
• Immense developer support
• Manuals
• Test boards
• Sample source
• Less expensive entry

• Pentium III/IV or Athlon Processor
• 256MB Ram (min.)
• Free AGP 4x/Pro or PCI slot