Developers

No compromises, No restrictions.

Caustic Graphics® is reinventing rendering with software and hardware to enable developer to add real-time, interactive ray tracing to a wide range of 3D graphics and physics applications.

Our products include the OpenRL™ SDK programming API (based on OpenGL), Brazil for Developers (based on OpenRL and Brazil r/s), and the CausticTwo™ graphics accelerator card.

OpenRL (Open Ray Tracing Library) is the world's first specification for writing ray tracing applications that have standardized access to a wide range of graphics hardware devices from AMD®, Intel®, and NVIDIA®, as well as Caustic Graphics (e.g., CausticTwo). OpenRL takes advantage of multiple heterogeneous compute devices simultaneously, so that all CPUs, GPUs, and RTUs (ray tracing unit) cores are fully utilized during the rendering process.

Brazil for Developers is a real-time, fully interactive renderer for a wide range of 3D graphics applications. For the first time, developers will be able to incorporate the look and photorealism of Brazil directly into their 3D graphics applications, with the tremendous enhancement of real-time, interactive scene manipulation. The Brazil renderer was rewritten from the ground up to leverage Caustic's OpenRL™ (Open Ray tracing Library) for standardized access to a wide range of graphics devices from AMD®, Intel®, and NVIDIA®, as well as Caustic Graphics.

CausticTwo is an add in board (AIB) that will be sold to 3D artists and designers. At the heart of the CausticTwo is Caustic Co-processor, which uses a host of new ray tracing technology and algorithms to calculate many more ray casts with a lower computational cost in terms of CPU/GPU. It enables GPUs to perform ultra-fast, efficient shading with high cache coherence, making it possible to use standard parallel computers for accelerated raytracing. Plus, it's a system that scales nearly linearly with the number of Caustic Co-processors available. The previous generation of this co-processor was implemented and demonstrated with the CausticOne AIB in 2009.