{"id":9430,"date":"2016-09-10T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/old\/\/?p=9430"},"modified":"2016-09-10T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:04:08","slug":"altair-aquires-solid-iris-technologies-leader-photorealistic-rendering-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/altair-aquires-solid-iris-technologies-leader-photorealistic-rendering-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Altair aquires solid iris technologies, leader in photorealistic rendering and visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altair has acquired Solid Iris Technologies, a Greece-based technology company specializing in photorealistic rendering and visualization, with its high-end solution \u201cThea Render\u201d. The companies have built a relationship over the past several years, with Altair using Solid Iris\u2019 Thea Render superior technology to provide rendering functionality in its solidThinking Evolve concept design software.<\/p>\n<p>James R. Scapa, Altair\u2019s Founder, Chairman and CEO, notes that, \u201cWith the continued growth in performance and cloud availability of high performance computing (HPC), the opportunity to deliver rendering solutions for applications from architectural visualization and product design to entertainment and augmented reality is truly exciting. We look forward to delivering powerful new capabilities to our software community of designers and engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thea Render is a state-of-the-art Biased, Unbiased and GPU renderer with a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio. Integrating this photorealistic rendering technology with solidThinking and Altair products will contribute significantly to a completely new experience to visualize, model and design. Thea Render is also integrated on many modeling applications, with thousands of users who will benefit from Altair\u2019s global support and training resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVision is the most important human sense\u201d, says Ioannis Pantazopoulos, Managing Director of Solid Iris, \u201cand it plays a vital role in our understanding of the world. As we fully integrate our team and technology within Altair, we are committed to advancing the user\u2019s experience such that product creation will seem to occur inside a real scene rather than in front of a computer screen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altair has acquired Solid Iris Technologies, a Greece-based technology company specializing in photorealistic rendering and visualization, with its high-end solution \u201cThea Render\u201d. The companies have built a relationship over the past several years, with Altair using Solid Iris\u2019 Thea Render superior technology to provide rendering functionality in its solidThinking Evolve concept design software. James R. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-9430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-altair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}