Luxo is probably one of the most famous computer-animated lamps of all time, from the early era of Pixars siggraph-demonstrations of computer graphics used in film (it had never been done before). LuxRender on the other hand is what makes amazing movies, like those made by pixar, dreamworks and the other studios visible to the eye. It’s a renderer. But not only is it a renderer, it is open-source and free for all to download and use. And the rendered results from it are amazing.
Some of the most prominent features of this render-software is that it uses physically based rendering, it has the capability of spectral rendering, DoF and motion blur is of course an option and it has some amazing light-simulation capabilities. It can run on all platforms, OsX, Windows, Linux et cetera, it has a system for virtual film giving you a photographic quality to your pictures.
The best thing about this renderer is that it is opensource and in constant development, and one of the really good things about that is that it works very well with Blender3d. Below is a video of how LuxRender works and its new real-time integration with Blender=D
SmallLuxGPU v1.6 (OpenCL) from David Bucciarelli on Vimeo.
http://www.luxrender.net/
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