ANARI was brought up in the latest rendering meeting. Blender is not actively involved in it. https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2020-11-3-blender-rendering-meeting/16020
ANARAI is not designed to do what you describe though. It is a rendering API, that would sit between a tool like Blender or Paraview, and a renderer like Cycles or OSPRay. Similar to Hydra or the RenderMan Interface. It would not be used for importing a neural model into Blender. On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 11:11 AM Mateusz Grzeliński via Bf-committers < bf-committers@blender.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the middle of researching possibilities of > visualization and interaction with neural networks (graph based > structures) in 3d environment, just a project connected with studies. > > I came upon quite new project called ANARI - Analytic Rendering > Interface for Data Visualization. Long story short, it is meant to be a > bridge connecting data and visualization in standarized ways: > > data -> ANARI -> any visualization tool > > So in my case: > > neural model -> ANARI -> Blender > > The ANARI project (owned by Khronos group) is still under development > thus kept private. > Recently Ton announced that Blender is a member of Khronos group. I am > not asking for access, that would be a lot to ask, but still I wonder > if anyone from Blender participates in development of ANARI? Any plans > or thoughts about it? > > Blender seems to be used quite often in science vis and ANARI seems to > be next big thing. > > As ANARI is still kept private I will probably need to use different > toolchain for my project :( Now I can appreciate open nature of > Blender. > > Regards, > Mateusz Grzeliński > > Those are pretty much the only public resources about ANARI: > * ANARI overview: https://www.khronos.org/anari > * ANRI Q&A webinar (recording and presentation): > > https://www.khronos.org/blog/want-to-learn-how-graphics-vendors-will-use-the-anari-api-to-enable-rendering-technologies-anari-webinar-qa > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers