Graphics processing units (GPUs) have come a long way since their inception, when they were used to accelerate basic rasterisation features in high-end CAD workstations. Through standards such as 3Dfx's Glide, and later Direct3D and OpenGL, the market for inexpensive consumer GPUs has bloomed into t

And we have our winners! 1st Place: Galinette Galinette's material page Galinette is a Platform Leader for Facade Applications in France. His work with the Indigo Shading Language (ISL) and physically accurate materials has won him this competition. Both materials are fully procedural - this means t

I came in this morning and found these notes on the desk of Thomas, our GPU developer. We had to blur out a few trade secrets, but I thought you might like to get an insight into how our developers are spending their days. Higher numbers are better. :)

We are pleased to announce that we have released the first Indigo 2.4 beta. In the 2.4 series we'll mainly be focusing on GUI updates and bugfixes, but apart from that there have also been some significant speedups of the rendering core. Indigo 2.4 offers a 20-30% speed increase over Indigo 2.2 stab

Since the material competition began two months ago we've had over 100 new materials added. We've updated the color preview of the materials, so you can now browse all 350+ materials by color.

The Truespace for Indigo exporter has recieved some updates courtesy of Clintonman. The changelist for the April 2010 release: * new material support for Diffuse Transmitter, Oren-Nayar, Specular and Glossy Transparent * emissive light materials * light layers * ies profile support * scene packagin

I'm back from holiday and have been pushing out some website fixes that've been in the pipeline for a while. This material page for Sparlin has been fixed up (it looked slightly wonky before with some text covering up other bits of text). Be sure to hit ctrl-f5 to refresh and make sure you are seein

This kitchen by waz is amazing...

This is a nice test render by madcoo.

We're testing a new user profile page. You'll see it when you log in or when you click on your username (if you're logged in). Here are a few users with their recent posts and recently uploaded images: Indigo core team: * Yves Colle * Thomas Ludwig * Ben Nolan * Nick Chapman