» About WavGen
Our Flagship Product is the Wavgen Textureloader Pro™. A wavelet based texture loading mechanism that allows you to load, model, and render immense textures in UV and normal mapping within standard CG software. Download our light edition Wavgen Textureloader Pro™ LE and see how an aerial image has been compressed from 1.2GB to 16MB and how the image thumb nails and render nodes import in runtime and render in extremely fast.
WavGen has also been providing hardware integration over the years. We are very experienced in hardware integration on a systems level. When it comes to distributed rendering technology we suggest using RUSH or the SUN Grid Engine technology as an excellent and cost effective proven renderqueue system. Commercially more expensive solutions exist and we implement these on demand as well (Including but not limited to Cubed, Temerity, Mentalqueue, etc...).
But perhaps the most overlooked piece of information is that of combining the requirements of a software engineer with those of a network engineer, and those of a storage engineer with those of an artist. RAM dependencies are very bad and spindle friction (on disk) is even worse and many technologies create friction on SANs by utilizing uncompressed and rediculously large textures (MAPs for Mentalray and RIBS for Renderman for example). Obviously the larger the texture, the more the network grinds to a halt as well (Network Creep). These technologies include .MAPs, .RIBs, and .EXRs and of course standard jpegs and tiffs and targas. Anyone can test this by using ethereal (wire shark) and XOSview and compare these with ours. Namely that our encoded textures are so very light on RAM and especially on those spindles found in disks and the network, such that the cost versus investment equation being examined at every facility between those afore mentioned groups is elegantly and uniquely solved.
In short, WavGen can save you a bunch of money during hardware and software procurement, and also save you lots of money replacing those RAID hard drives. We obviously save you money on render performance and also ease of use.
WavGen and it's Terrashader Pro creates the most innovative software.
