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Embree v3.1.0

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@svenwoop svenwoop released this 17 Apr 11:33
· 1337 commits to release since this release
  • Added new normal oriented curve primitive for ray tracing of grass-like structures.
  • Added new grid primitive for ray tracing tessellated and displaced surfaces in very memory efficient manner.
  • Fixed bug of ribbon curve intersector when derivative was zero.
  • Installing all static libraries when EMBREE_STATIC_LIB is enabled.
  • Added API functions to access topology of subdivision mesh.
  • Reduced memory consumption of instances.
  • Improved performance of instances by 8%.
  • Reduced memory consumption of curves by up to 2x.
  • Up to 5% higher performance on AVX-512 architectures.
  • Added native support for multiple curve basis functions. Internal basis conversions are no longer performed, which saves additional memory when multiple bases are used.
  • Fixed issue with non thread safe local static variable initialization in Visual Studio 2013.
  • Bugfix in rtcSetNewGeometry. Vertex buffers did not get properly overallocated.
  • Replaced ImageMagick with OpenImageIO in the tutorials.