Thank you for all your posts resulting from the launch of Caustic Graphics on Monday. There's been great interest with some really good feedback, and naturally lots of questions. We're just sorry that's its taken a few days to chime in and answer. We hope the following will provide clarity to some of the questions/comments that have resonated so far:
1. Splutterfish is now a part of Caustic Graphics, Inc. so we took the liberty of using some of the images rendered in Brazil from the Splutterfish gallery, crediting the artists. In retrospect, to avoid any confusion, we should have been more clear that these images were not rendered using the CausticRT platform. We'll be updating our site shortly to avoid any further confusion
2. The first generation of CausticRT is targeted toward developers. When we launch our next generation in early 2010, our goal is to have several commercial rendering packages be available that support our technology. This will be the first opportunity for individual artists to leverage our platform, depending on what rendering software you use.
3. Several people have suggested out that we post a movie of our live demo, so that they can better understand our performance gains from the first generation of CausticRT. Rest assured this work is underway and it won't be long before we post a movie on our site.
Hope this helps, and thanks again for all your feedback. We'll be sure to continue to monitor this forum and respond to any questions or comments as appropriate.
The Caustic Team
I'm not really a big fan of all the real-time raytracing stuff myself or rather don't see that as the next big thing, but it's possible they could have come up with some ingenious ideas thus I think it's a bit hasty to dismiss them barely based on the size and capacity of the company. Surely they are fighting against the odds, but innovations and inventions are what drive this industry which isn't tied to the company size.