AMD Radeon ProRender, the company's rendering engine for physically-based applications, has added backing for The Khronos Group's ANARI analytical rendering interface. The Khronos ANARI interface is used for 3D data visualizations.

Khronos ANARI analytical rendering interface is added to the list of supported applications utilizing AMD Radeon ProRender

ANARI limits the fragmentation of varying APIs from several merchandisers looking for a feature-rich data visualization application. In 2021, the Khronos Group initialized the ANARI 1.0 provisional specification to create an industry-standard endeavor focused on customized 3D data visualizations. The organization intends for the analytical rendering interface to be the golden rule specification used by AMD Radeon ProRender and utilized by several CPU and GPU libraries.

In the application's current state, having AMD support with their powerful Radeon ProRender software, the Kronos Group is in an advantageous position to be seen more globally than previously.

Source: The Kronos Group

The news of the enablement was announced this morning on AMD's GPUOpen website, briefly explaining the new integration of Kronos ANARI 1.0 support. The application is considered open-source under the Apache 2.0 license and can be downloaded from GitHub.

We have provided the implementation details below for easy access for our readers.

Implementation details

Camera

supported types: perspective and orthographictransformparameter overridesposition,directionandupparametersimageRegionparameter is not supported nowfocusDistanceandapertureRadiusparameters are only supported by perspective cameraboth cameras have an additional parametersensorHeight. Sensor width will be calculated usingaspectparameter. Default sensor height is 24 mmorthographic camera has an additional parameterorthoHeight. It determines the area which the Orthographic camera projection will cover. Width will be calculated usingaspectparameter. Default value is 1

Geometry

curve geometry type is not supported nowgeneral parameters (primitive.color,primitive.attribute,primitive.id) are not supportedvertex.colorcan only accept float32 types (FLOAT32,FLOAT32_VEC2,FLOAT32_VEC3,FLOAT32_VEC4)vertex.normalcan only acceptFLOAT32valuesprimitive.indexcan only accept uint32 values and vectors

Volumes

data in spatial fields can be only in float32 format (ARRAY3DofFLOAT32)colorcan only accept float32 types (FLOAT32,FLOAT32_VEC2,FLOAT32_VEC3,FLOAT32_VEC4)color.positionandopacity.positionparameters are not supported

Features which are not implemented yet

object introspectionstereo mode of camerasdepth framebuffercurve geometryKHR_AUXILIARY_BUFFERSANARI_KHR_TRANSFORMATION_MOTION_BLUR

The Khronos Group ANARI integration works for both Windows and Linux operating systems. Readers can learn more about the new ANARI implementation by visiting Khronos.org.

News Source: Phoronix