{"id":376,"date":"2010-02-13T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/376-preview-new-auto-renderers.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:54:23","slug":"preview-new-auto-renderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/preview-new-auto-renderers","title":{"rendered":"Preview: new auto renderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The renderer we currently use for thumbnails in the gallery and the model details pages has its limitations and we&#8217;ve wanted to improve these previews for a long time.<\/div>\n<div>The reason being that we want to give everyone visiting Shapeways a better impression of what the actual model will look like.&nbsp;One of the limitations of the current renderer is that it lacks smoothing, which&nbsp;gives ugly results when triangles have large surface areas. Moreover the&nbsp;lack of depth perception in the rendered image, the overall dark look of the&nbsp;gallery and the somewhat odd camera position are things we wanted to improve upon.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>For this reason we have been developing a new render solution. And we want to give&nbsp;you a sneak peek on where we are now. We are very curious as to what you think! Below two images: one of the old and one of thenew renderings. Lots of thanks to Bart, Robert and team for making this possible. Please comment and let us know what you think!<\/div>\n<div><a onclick=\"F1 = window.open('\/blog\/uploads\/renderer_old.jpg','Zoom','height=495,width=655,top=360,left=480,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,resize=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=yes'); return false;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/renderer_old1.jpg\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:940 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"83\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/renderer_old1-150x150.jpg\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; \"><\/a><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"F1 = window.open('\/blog\/uploads\/renderer_new.jpg','Zoom','height=495,width=655,top=360,left=480,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,resize=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=yes'); return false;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/renderer_new1.jpg\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:941 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"83\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/renderer_new1-150x150.jpg\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; \"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><!-- s9ymdb:940 --><!-- s9ymdb:940 --><\/div>\n<div><!-- s9ymdb:941 --><a href=\"\/blog\/uploads\/renderer_old.jpg\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:940 --><\/a><\/div>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">(Renders of Bathsheba&#8217;s Gyroid)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renderer we currently use for thumbnails in the gallery and the model details pages has its limitations and we&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shapeways","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - 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