Greek company acquired by Altair

James R. Scapa, Altair’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, noted: “With the continued growth in performance and cloud availability of High Performance Computing (HPC), the opportunity to deliver rendering solutions for applications from architectural visualisation and product design to entertainment and augmented reality is truly exciting. We look forward to delivering powerful new capabilities our software community of designers and engineers.”

Thea Render, a Biased, Unbiased and GPU renderer has a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio. Integrating this photorealistic rendering technology with solidThinking and Altair products will contribute significantly to a completely new experience to visualise, model and design. Thea Render is also integrated on many modeling applications, with thousands of users who will benefit from Altair’s global support and training resources.

“Vision is the most important human sense”, said Ioannis Pantazopoulos, Managing Director of Solid Iris, “and it plays a vital role in our understanding of the world. As we fully integrate our team and technology within Altair, we are committed to advancing the user’s experience such that product creation will seem to occur inside a real scene rather than in front of a computer screen.”