Announcing LuxRender 1.5

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LuxRender is a completely free, open source, physically based renderer with many contributors led by Jean-Philippe Grimaldi. LuxRender version 1.5 introduces the following features:
– microkernel architecture for significantly faster rendering,
– biased path tracing engine (including tiled rendering, radiance clamping and many more),
– adaptive rendering,
– Intel Embree-based accelerator,
– Laser light source type
– arbitrary clipping planes,
– pointiness option for materials,
– volume priority system,
– hair strand primitives,
– up to 16 times faster exporting for meshes
– new 3Ds max plugin,
– volumetric emission system.

A full feature list announcement is available here:
http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12363

A video of my 7 favorite LuxRender features:

The mentioned scene repository is available here:
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Show-off_pack

Official website: http://www.luxrender.net/
Forums: http://www.luxrender.net/forum
Gallery: http://www.luxrender.net/gallery
Infographics: https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~zsolnai/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/luxrender-infographics.jpg
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/luxrender/

Scene credits:
Splash Screen – HAL 9000
Floor, bowl and the fish models and textures: ColeHarris, plant models and textures: Bhavin Solanki, HDRI: Maxime Roz
Mr. Snippy (microkernel image) – Simon Wendsche
Cornell Box – Aaron Hill
Interior – Walter Zatta
Simple Morning – Chris Foster
Jade Dragon – Peter Sandbacka and Ian Blew
Laser Bear – J the Ninja
Dojo – Vlad Miller

Heterogeneous medium video – Simon Wendsche

Splash screen/thumbnail design: Felícia Fehér – http://felicia.hu

Music: “Pachabelly” by Huma-Huma.

Also thanks to Hapoofesgeli for his help with some of the images!

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