Author Archives: sitexgraphics

A dictionary function for the shading language

Posted on March 31, 2011 by sitexgraphics

For the Air 11 release we’ve added new shaders that compute a physical sky environment and sun position based on geographical location and date/time.  We thought it would be nice to be able to enter a location using a simple … Continue reading →

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How to render a normal map

Posted on February 27, 2011 by sitexgraphics

A poster to the Rhino newsgroup recently asked for an easy way to render a normal map based on a model in Rhino.  This simple surface shader can be used to render such a tangent-space normal map with Air: surface … Continue reading →

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Viewing the rendering mesh

Posted on January 29, 2011 by sitexgraphics

Air renders most geometric primitives as meshes of polygons.  Viewing the rendering mesh can sometimes help diagnose errors or optimize rendering, whether the mesh is a polygon mesh provided as input or the result of tessellating a smooth surface primitive. … Continue reading →

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