Fundamentals

This guide provides insight into the fundamental components that drive HOOPS Luminate’s programming interface.

HOOPS Luminate is a graphics C++ SDK for photorealistic visualization and real time rendering in high quality. It is composed of a set of APIs designed to control all the graphics in your application. It can take advantage of hardware acceleration and do multi-core software rendering.

The real-time rendering technology lets you create high-quality interactive scenes, with complex models and shadowing. It provides a lot of functionalities to meets all your graphics application needs:

• Advanced Real-Time Rendering
• Real-Time material
• Lighting
• HDR Pipeline
• Section cutting
• Programmable shading pipeline
• Point clouds
• Stereoscopy
• Volume rendering
• Animations

HOOPS Luminate integrates a proprietary rendering technology that is both physically accurate and fast. It can create large stunning images in less than the time for a coffee break.

Photorealistic quality is achieved thanks to high-end algorithms: global illumination, dynamic tone mapping, and physical lighting are only a few of the high-end rendering features that are built into the SDK.

• Ray Tracing
• Global Illumination
• Photorealistic materials
• Physical lighting
• Caustics
• Image denoising

HOOPS Luminate has been designed to easily integrate into another application. Thanks to its flexible interface, it can co-exist with other graphics solutions to add value for specific graphic needs or to become the reference visualization platform.

It lets you import and export data from a variety of sources and has bridges with key industrial components such as Parasolid from Siemens, the Open Design Alliance, Ascon’s C3D math kernel or Autodesk 3dsMax.

• Cross Platform
• Virtualized Environments
• Siemens Parasolid bridge
• ODA Bridge
• Data Export
• HOOPS Visualize HPS bridge

Read and write capabilities to different file formats are available.

• MAX
• 3DS
• DWG
• DXF
• FBX
• IGS
• OBJ
• WRL
• STL