Brazil R/S

PowerVR Brazil SDK

Splutterfish was acquired by Caustic Graphics in 2008 (which was later acquired by Imagination Technologies in December 2010.)

After Splutterfish's acquisition by Caustic Graphics, they began a rewrite of Brazil r/s using Caustic's OpenRL API to leverage Caustic's raytracing hardware. The new render engine was initially publicly called the "Brazil 3.0 SDK" but was later renamed the "PowerVR Brazil SDK".)

The PowerVR Brazil SDK was used in Caustic Visualizer, a real-time rendering plugin for Maya and SketchUp, and Neon, a viewport rendering plugin for Rhinoceros 3D. Caustic Visualizer for Maya and R2100/R2500 hardware were EOLed on June 13, 2014 and Caustic Visualizer for SketchUp was EOLed on March 23, 2015.

In 2015 Imagination Technologies introduced the PowerVR Wizard GPU architecture, that integrated Imagination's hardware raytracing cores. Wizard replaced the OpenRL API with vendor-specific OpenGL ES raytracing extensions. The Brazil SDK, using its internal name 'Resin', was updated to demo the new architecture.

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