CGSociety - mental mill

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The following article on CGSociety explains some of the features of mental images new software mental mill, which is behind a lot of the new rendering features being introduced into the latest versions of software that use the mental ray rendering engine such as 3ds max and Maya.

Quoted from http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4916&page=1:

CGSociety - mental mill

Up until now shader writing has been left to those with computer science degrees and extensive programming experience. Expert shader writers spend countless hours developing software that describes complex and life-like appearances that other artists incorporate into video games, film, and CAD visualizations.