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Mental Images
Established Date: April 1, 1986
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- rendering
- pioneer
- founder
- software
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Used Wavefront software as well as proprietary code that eventually became Mental Ray. Work for BMW and German television programming such as ARD and Bremen Television. Employees included John Berton (86-88) and Stefen Fangmeyer (88-90) both future Visual Effects Supervisors at ILM.
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Mental Images was acquired by NVIDIA in December of 2007.
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mental images was incorporated in April of 1986 by Rolf Herken with financial backing from private investors. The first generation of mental ray was begun initially by Robert Hodicke using one Solarity computer along with the first two SGI 3030's in Europe. Their initial commercial software used was the first Wavefront license in Europe.
The beginning ... 1986-1989 -
In 1993 mental ray and Softimage Inc. of Canada entered into a rendering technology agreement under the terms of which version 1.9 of mental ray was integrated into version 3.0 of Softimage|3D
Softimage integration -
Version 2.0 was developed and led by project leader and software engineer Thomas Dreimeyer.
Version 2.0 ... 1994-1998 -
Mental Images was awarded an Academy Award in 2003 for their pioneering excellence in computer graphic software development.
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Rolf Herken -
Gary Yost
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Mental Ray
The End
Mental Images was acquired by NVIDIA in December of 2007.
The beginning ... 1986-1989
mental images was incorporated in April of 1986 by Rolf Herken with financial backing from private investors. The first generation of mental ray was begun initially by Robert Hodicke using one Solarity computer along with the first two SGI 3030's in Europe. Their initial commercial software used was the first Wavefront license in Europe.
Softimage integration
In 1993 mental ray and Softimage Inc. of Canada entered into a rendering technology agreement under the terms of which version 1.9 of mental ray was integrated into version 3.0 of Softimage|3D
Version 2.0 ... 1994-1998
Version 2.0 was developed and led by project leader and software engineer Thomas Dreimeyer.
Academy Award
Mental Images was awarded an Academy Award in 2003 for their pioneering excellence in computer graphic software development.
Used Wavefront software as well as proprietary code that eventually became Mental Ray. Work for BMW and German television programming such as ARD and Bremen Television. Employees included John Berton (86-88) and Stefen Fangmeyer (88-90) both future Visual Effects Supervisors at ILM.