Khronos Ships New ANARI SDK Upgrades and Releases ANARI 1.0 Adopter Program
ANARI™ is the industry’s open standard, cross-platform 3D rendering engine API developed by the Khronos Group to provide portable access to sophisticated 3D functionality including ray tracing and global illumination. ANARI is already widely used by scientific visualization applications and is implemented over multiple rendering engines, including AMD’s RadeonProRender, Intel’s OSPRay, and NVIDIA’s VisRTX, among others. ANARI is developed with full public access to the specification and has recently incorporated significant community feedback, including improvements to the object interface, better error handling through guaranteed API stream robustness, revamped runtime feature queries, directly mapped array parameters, improved volume shading, and compatibility with the Khronos glTF™ Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) materials.
Kitware Adds ANARI Support to VTK to Simplify Access to Accelerated 3D Rendering Engines
Kitware and NVIDIA have collaborated to integrate ANARI™, the open, cross-platform 3D rendering engine API from the Khronos® Group, into VTK (Visualization Toolkit). VTK is a cross-platform and feature-rich data analysis and visualization toolkit used in application domains ranging from medical imaging to large-scale scientific visualization. Through this integration, ANARI offers VTK users seamless access to a rich set of hardware-accelerated 3D rendering engines and capabilities. Kitware is also working to expose ANARI in ParaView, their state-of-the-art visualization application built on VTK. Exposing ANARI parameters in the ParaView user interface provides access to the rich world of accelerated 3D rendering engines enabled through the cross-platform ANARI API.
Want to learn how graphics vendors will use the ANARI API to enable Rendering Technologies? ANARI Webinar + Q&A
The Khronos ANARI™ (Analytic Rendering Interface) working group is defining an open, royalty-free API standard for cross-vendor access to state-of-the-art rendering engines. ANARI will enable experts in domains such as scientific visualization to leverage the latest rendering techniques without needing to use low-level rendering APIs. Graphics vendors will use the ANARI API to enable visualization engines, libraries, and applications with p