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1. Functionality

mental ray offers all the features traditionally expected of photorealistic rendering, together with functionality not found in most rendering software. The following sections describe parallelism, free-form surface input geometry,  edge merging and  adjacency detection and various input entities such as materials,  texture mapping and  light sources, and global illumination features such as  caustics.



 

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