ANARI: A 3-D Rendering API Standard

ANARI is a new 3-D rendering API, an emerging Khronos standard that enables visualization applications to leverage the state-of-the-art rendering techniques across diverse hardware platforms and rendering engines. Visualization applications have historically embedded custom-written renderers to enab...

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Published in:Computing in science & engineering Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 7 - 18
Main Authors: Stone, John E., Griffin, Kevin S., Amstutz, Jefferson, DeMarle, David E., Sherman, William R., Gunther, Johannes
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithms
Application programming interface
Application programming interfaces
Complexity theory
Data visualization
Hardware
Hardware acceleration
Lighting
Ray tracing
Renderers
Rendering
Rendering (computer graphics)
Three-dimensional displays
User requirements
Visualization
ISSN:1521-9615, 1558-366X
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Summary:ANARI is a new 3-D rendering API, an emerging Khronos standard that enables visualization applications to leverage the state-of-the-art rendering techniques across diverse hardware platforms and rendering engines. Visualization applications have historically embedded custom-written renderers to enable them to provide the necessary combination of features, performance, and visual fidelity required by their users. As computing power, rendering algorithms, dedicated rendering hardware acceleration operations, and associated low-level APIs have advanced, the effort and costs associated with maintaining renderers within visualization applications have risen dramatically. The rising cost and complexity associated with renderer development creates an undesirable barrier for visualization applications to be able to fully benefit from the latest rendering methods and hardware. ANARI directly addresses these challenges by providing a high-level, visualization-oriented API that abstracts low-level rendering algorithms and hardware acceleration details while providing easy and efficient access to diverse ANARI implementations, thereby enabling visualization applications to support the state-of-the-art rendering capabilities.
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ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X
DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2022.3163151