Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API

For several years now The Khronos Group has been developing the ANARI standard as an analytics rendering API and focusing on scalable 3D data virtualization. Today the ANARI 1.0 release finally took place for this cross-platform 3D rendering engine API...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-ANARI-1.0

[ssokolow]

So... it's intended to be like VRML, but as a C API instead of a file format, and with support for modern stuff like PBR?

[tsuru]

I can't fully tell if this is intended to complement or compete with the AOUSD announcement from yesterday, but it looks like this could aim to be the in-memory model standard and AOUSD is aiming to be the persistence standard.

[cynic]

we cannot not mention XKCD here

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[PCJohn]

As far as I understand it, it lacks transformation nodes. So, it is oriented rather to static scenes, raytracing, etc.. Support of real-time dynamic scenes seems to be no priority to the involved parties.

Anyway, good to have one API for all this raytracing and static scene visualizations.

[mb_q]

For a quick 3D viz where Vulkan is too low-level this makes quite some sense; there is vtk but it is huge and painful sometimes, whereas OpenGL is a tech from the past... Running on a CPU is a huge thing for HPC, where things often run on computers without (useable) GPU.