Houdini supports this.

http://wiki.polycount.com/Spherical%20Environment%20Map
http://vimeo.com/11492977
http://vimeo.com/7916648

As far as I am aware it is just an implementation of morphological anti-aliasing, I am not aware of any implementations that utilise a graphics card but there is surely no reason to imply that the PS3 is somehow capable of something beyond what high-end graphics cards could do.

Works fine for me in Ubuntu 9.10 Indigo 2.2.9.

Interesting that it seems to be a descendant of Virtualight, which used to be quite popular some time ago.

The old Virtualight website seems to be down right now, but you can see it still here, he also wrote a MLT version here.

Borgleader wrote:It seems I'm having a little trouble translating some of the more "technical" terms, such as Tonemapping, Reinhard

Reinhard is a name.

I like this version of portals more.

I have always wondered, if you are not going to be rendering for commercial reasons, why the resolution limit would be a problem. It is still large enough for anything below HDTV resolutions, so that is the majority of broadcasting.

I guess the problem here is the distinction between a feature of the renderer and a feature of the exporter, from what I can tell this is a feature of skindigo that creates an alpha mask for masking out the environment in post. As Indigo doesn't support rendering the background as transparent it is ...