Draft:Analytic Rendering Interface

ANARI
ANARI
Developer	Khronos Group
Preview release	1.0 / November 2, 2021; 4 years ago
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Visualization and 3D rendering API
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	www.khronos.org/anari/
Repository	github.com/KhronosGroup/ANARI-Registry

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Declined by Stuartyeates 3 years ago. Last edited by Sphilbrick 36 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Submission declined on 9 May 2022 by Locomotive207 (talk).

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Submission declined on 26 March 2022 by DoubleGrazing (talk).

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Declined by DoubleGrazing 4 years ago.

Comment: The only independent coverage appears to be two https://gfxspeak.com/ blog posts... Stuartyeates (talk) 05:59, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Comment: The entire motivation section is unsourced. 🚂Locomotive207-talk🚂 14:14, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Comment: Per WP:EL, please remove external links from body text, and reduce the number of items in the 'External links' section. Thank you, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Comment: The sources cited include the organisation's own website, and a press release issued by them. The remaining two articles are both from the proprietary Graphic Speak website which may not be independent and reliable enough to count towards WP:GNG notability.
All the cites are in the 'History' section, with the rest of the article entirely unreferenced.
-- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

ANARI (ANAlytic Rendering Interface) is an open, royalty-free standard for developing cross-platform 3D Data Visualization applications that take advantage of modern 3D rendering and ray tracing capabilities. It provides a high-level C99 API for rendering 3D surfaces and volumes, using a variety of back-end renderers and associated rendering algorithms. It is developed by a working group managed by the Khronos Group consortium, and is described in the IEEE journal Computing in Science and Engineering^[1] and the Eurographics 2022 Poster^[2].

VMD visualization of Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus rendered using the ANARI API with a developmental OSPRay ray tracing back-end.

Implementations

ANARI example rendering of a 3-D parametric surface using a developmental VisRTX ray tracing back-end.

The following implementations of the provisional ANARI specification are available and are expected to pass the Khronos ANARI Conformance Process when it is available.

AMD RadeonProRender^[3]
Intel OSPRay^[4]
NVIDIA VisRTX^[5]
NVIDIA USD^[6]

History

Work to define the requirements for a high-level API that could simplify the development of cross-platform visualization applications started in November 2019 with the formation of the ANARI exploratory group.^[7] On March 3, 2020 the ANARI Working Group was formed^[8]^[9] to work on the detailed design of the ANARI API and SDK. On November 2, 2021 ANARI 1.0^[10]^[11] was released as a provisional specification and open source SDK to enable industry feedback via the ANARI GitHub^[12] before the specification is finalized (expected 2022). Organisations cited as being involved in the development of the specification include: AMD, Argonne National Laboratory, Autodesk, Boeing Company, delta-h, D/VisionLab, Intel, Kitware, NVIDIA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, SURVICE Engineering, Tecplot and the Texas Advanced Computing Center^[13]

Motivation

Low-Level 3D APIs such as DirectX, OpenGL, and Vulkan abstract the low-level details of rendering hardware, and require application developers to take on greater responsibility for high-level 3D engine and visualisation development^[14]. As rendering algorithms and hardware acceleration technologies have advanced, the complexity of building and maintaining such rendering engines has steadily increased, reaching a peak with real-time ray tracing and global illumination^[15]. The combination of these factors led to the development of a comparatively high-level API that visualization applications developers could use to provide cross-platform access to state-of-the-art rendering engines. See Past Perspectives in the IEEE Computing in Science Article^[16]. ANARI fits between these visualization applications and libraries that are layered above it, and lower level renderers, rendering software frameworks, and 3-D graphics APIs.

References

^ Stone JE, Griffin K, Amstutz J, Demarle DE, Sherman W, Guenther J (30 March 2022). "ANARI: A 3D Rendering API Standard". IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering. 24 (2): 7–18. Bibcode:2022CSE....24b...7S. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2022.3163151. PMC 9718494. PMID 36465066.
^ Griffin, KevinShawn; Amstutz, Jefferson; DeMarle, Dave; Günther, Johannes; Progsch, Jakob; Sherman, William; Stone, JohnE.; Usher, Will; van Kooten, Kees (13 June 2022). Eurographics 2022 Poster. Eurovis 2022 - Posters. The Eurographics Association. doi:10.2312/evp.20221126.
^ "AMD RadeonProRender". GitHub. 21 November 2022.
^ "Intel OSPRay Implementation". GitHub. 30 August 2022.
^ "NVIDIA VisRTX Implementation". GitHub. 8 December 2022.
^ "NVIDIA USD Implementation". GitHub. 26 July 2022.
^ Peddie, Jon (15 November 2021). "Visualizing data—analytic rendering via Khronos". Graphic Speak. Jon Peddie Research.
^ "Exploratory Group becomes full Working Group to develop standard for data visualization". khronos.org. 3 March 2020.
^ "HPC Wire: Khronos to Develop 'ANARI' Analytic Rendering Interface API Standard". hpcwire.com.
^ "Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 Provisional API for Scalable 3D Data Visualization". HPC Wire. November 2, 2021.
^ "Intel developing ANARI implementation to provide access to Intel OSPRay". Intel. November 2, 2021.
^ "ANARI GitHub repository". GitHub. 30 November 2021.
^ "Khronos tries to get everybody meet at their house". gfxspeak.com. 3 September 2021.
^ "Vulkan 1.0 specification". Archived from the original on 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
^ Lambru, Cristian; Morar, Anca; Moldoveanu, Florica; Asavei, Victor; Moldoveanu, Alin (2021). "Comparative Analysis of Real-Time Global Illumination Techniques". IEEE Access. 9: 125158–125183. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3109663. S2CID 237518769.
^ Stone, John E.; Griffin, Kevin S.; Amstutz, Jefferson; Demarle, David E.; Sherman, William R.; Gunther, Johannes (30 March 2022). "ANARI: A 3D Rendering API Standard". IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering. 24 (2): 7–18. Bibcode:2022CSE....24b...7S. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2022.3163151. PMC 9718494. PMID 36465066. S2CID 247871895.

External links

[1] Stone JE, Griffin K, Amstutz J, Demarle DE, Sherman W, Guenther J (30 March 2022). "ANARI: A 3D Rendering API Standard". IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering. 24 (2): 7–18. Bibcode:2022CSE....24b...7S. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2022.3163151. PMC 9718494. PMID 36465066.

[2] Griffin, KevinShawn; Amstutz, Jefferson; DeMarle, Dave; Günther, Johannes; Progsch, Jakob; Sherman, William; Stone, JohnE.; Usher, Will; van Kooten, Kees (13 June 2022). Eurographics 2022 Poster. Eurovis 2022 - Posters. The Eurographics Association. doi:10.2312/evp.20221126.

[3] "AMD RadeonProRender". GitHub. 21 November 2022.

[4] "Intel OSPRay Implementation". GitHub. 30 August 2022.

[5] "NVIDIA VisRTX Implementation". GitHub. 8 December 2022.

[6] "NVIDIA USD Implementation". GitHub. 26 July 2022.

[7] Peddie, Jon (15 November 2021). "Visualizing data—analytic rendering via Khronos". Graphic Speak. Jon Peddie Research.

[8] "Exploratory Group becomes full Working Group to develop standard for data visualization". khronos.org. 3 March 2020.

[9] "HPC Wire: Khronos to Develop 'ANARI' Analytic Rendering Interface API Standard". hpcwire.com.

[10] "Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 Provisional API for Scalable 3D Data Visualization". HPC Wire. November 2, 2021.

[11] "Intel developing ANARI implementation to provide access to Intel OSPRay". Intel. November 2, 2021.

[12] "ANARI GitHub repository". GitHub. 30 November 2021.

[13] "Khronos tries to get everybody meet at their house". gfxspeak.com. 3 September 2021.

[14] "Vulkan 1.0 specification". Archived from the original on 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-09-07.

[15] Lambru, Cristian; Morar, Anca; Moldoveanu, Florica; Asavei, Victor; Moldoveanu, Alin (2021). "Comparative Analysis of Real-Time Global Illumination Techniques". IEEE Access. 9: 125158–125183. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3109663. S2CID 237518769.

[16] Stone, John E.; Griffin, Kevin S.; Amstutz, Jefferson; Demarle, David E.; Sherman, William R.; Gunther, Johannes (30 March 2022). "ANARI: A 3D Rendering API Standard". IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering. 24 (2): 7–18. Bibcode:2022CSE....24b...7S. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2022.3163151. PMC 9718494. PMID 36465066. S2CID 247871895.

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