Package: wnpp
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I request an adopter for the tachyon package.
The package description is:
Tachyon is a portable, high performance parallel ray tracing system
supporting
MPI and multithreaded implementations. Tachyon is built as a C callable
library,
which can be used with the included demo programs or within your own
application.
The distribution also includes a simple scene file parser front-end
which reads
a few different formats.
Tachyon implements all of the basic geometric primitives such as
triangles, planes,
spheres, cylinders, etc. Some of the goals in developing Tachyon were
to make it fast
and for it to parallelize well. These are what set it apart from more
full-featured
programs like POV-Ray, Rayshade, and others. Tachyon supports enough
features to be
an excellent alternative to slower programs for demanding animation and
scientific
visualization tasks. As time goes on, Tachyon will indeed incorporate
more features,
but with a continued emphasis on rendering performance.
Jerome Benoit has privately expressed interest.
