High Performance Ray Tracing

Intel® Embree is a high-performance ray tracing library developed at Intel which supports x86 CPUs under Linux, macOS, and Windows; ARM CPUs on macOS; as well as Intel® Arc™ GPUs under Linux and Windows. Embree targets graphics application developers to improve the performance of photo-realistic rendering applications and is optimized towards production rendering. Embree is released as open source under the Apache 2.0 License.

Current Release: v4.3.1

Embree 4.3.1 is a minor bugfix release. Please check the changelog file for more updates.

Embree Team receives Scientific & Technical Achievement Award!

The award recognizes Intel® Embree for its geometric rendering in contributing innovation in significant and lasting ways to the moviemaking process.

Award recipients are Sven Woop, Carsten Benthin, Attila Afra, Manfred Ernst and Ingo Wald.

Sr. Director of Intel® Advanced Rendering & Visualization Jim (James L.) Jeffers

See the Scientific & Technical Achievement Awards 2021 page

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