mental images Mission

mental images®, founded in 1986, is the recognized international leader in providing rendering and 3D modeling technology to the entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization, architecture, and other industries that require sophisticated images.

mental images is committed to further enhancing its position as the world’s leading provider of next-generation component software for rendering, modeling and server-based 3D graphics platforms for the creation, manipulation and visualization of 3D entertainment content and industrial production data.

mental images’s current main product is the high performance, photorealistic, rendering software mental ray® which produces images of unsurpassed realism by relying on proprietary ray tracing algorithms. It is the first rendering software which combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual phenomenon. mental ray technology has become an integral part of some of the world’s leading CAD and Digital Content Creation Software packages.

The company’s mental matter® product is based on mental images’s emerging proprietary technology which allows users in styling and 3D animation to create arbitrarily complex geometrical objects consisting of one single surface.

RealityServer® from mental images is the first server-based, scalable infrastructure software platform for creating and deploying Internet, Intranet, and WLAN applications as well as application services that require interactive and collaborative remote creation, manipulation or modification, and visualization of 3D digital content (of essentially unlimited complexity).

Rendering
The process of computing, pixel by pixel, one or more 2D images from 3D scene data, from the viewpoint of a simulated camera.

Ray Tracing
A rendering technique, based on complex mathematical algorithms, to accurately represent any conceivable representation of light, including reflections and refractions as well as any conceivable surface forms and materials.