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* {{official website|http://www.mentalimages.com/}}
* {{official website|http://www.mentalimages.com/}}
* [http://www.bitrot.de/city_losangeles.html Technical Achievement Award (technical Oscars)], 2003
* [http://www.bitrot.de/city_losangeles.html Technical Achievement Award (technical Oscars)], 2003
* [http://www.aec.at/archiv_project_en.php?id=2406 Prix Ars Electronica], 1987
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110807041856/http://www.aec.at/archiv_project_en.php?id=2406 Prix Ars Electronica], 1987
* mental images office at the [http://www.arcspace.com/architects/kleihues/kant_dreieck/ Kant Dreieck] tower
* mental images office at the [http://www.arcspace.com/architects/kleihues/kant_dreieck/ Kant Dreieck] tower
* [http://www.lamrug.org/ Los Angeles mental ray User Group]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20021122115228/http://lamrug.org/ Los Angeles mental ray User Group]


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Revision as of 21:42, 25 January 2018

This article is about the computer graphics software company. For the psychological phenomenon, see Mental image.
Mental Images GmbH
Nvidia
Websitewww.mentalimages.com

Mental Images

NVIDIA
in 2007, then rebranded as NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center (ARC), and is still providing similar products and technology. The company provides rendering and 3D modeling technology for entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization and architecture.

The company was founded by the physicists and computer scientists Rolf Herken, Hans-Christian Hege, Robert Hödicke and Wolfgang Krüger and the economists Günter Ansorge, Frank Schnöckel and Hans Peter Plettner as a company with limited liability & private limited partnership (GmbH & Co. KG) in April 1986 in Berlin, Germany. The Mental Ray software project started in 1986. The first versions of the rendering software were influenced, tested and used for production by Mental Images' then operating large commercial computer animation division, led by the visual effects supervisors John Andrew Berton (1986-1989), 2000 Academy Award winner John Nelson (1987-1989), and 1996 and 2000 Academy Award nominee Stefen Fangmeier (1988-1990).

In 2003 Mental Images completed an investment round led by ViewPoint Ventures and another large international private equity investor. Since Dec 2007 Mental Images GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of the

NVIDIA corporation[1] with headquarters in Berlin, subsidiaries in San Francisco (Mental Images Inc.) and Melbourne (Mental Images Pty. Ltd.) as well as an office in Stockholm
. After acquisition by NVIDIA the company has been renamed NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center (NVIDIA ARC GmbH).

Products

Mental Images is the developer of the rendering software Mental Ray, iray,[2] mental mill, RealityServer, and DiCE.

References

  1. ^ mental images
  2. ^ "The Iray Light Transport Simulation and Rendering System". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2017-05-16.

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