About The patterns rendered by this program are calculated by simulating the effect of light refracting through water. The water surface is made tileable in both space and time. This means that you seamlessly can tile individual rendered images both horizontally and vertically. It also means that a full generated animation sequence will loop in time. The rendered images can for example be used as realtime textures for games and animations but can also be used as light textures for film production, advertising renderings and architectural scene renderings.

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The Windows versions of Caustics Generator Lite and Caustics Generator Pro are available for online purchase.

Price list for Caustics Generator Lite / Pro including one year free updates and support:

Caustics Generator Lite Windows executable	35 Euro (+25% VAT in EU)	Buy Online
Caustics Generator Pro Windows executable (64-bit)	120 Euro (+25% VAT in EU)	Buy Online
Caustics Generator Pro Linux command line executable	170 Euro (+25% VAT in EU)	Email request
Source code licensing	Contact for pricing

Invoice orders are available by email for an additional administration fee of 10 Euro.

A receipt of your order will be sent to your stated email address. When your order has been processed you will receive another email with download instructions.



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Program Features Caustics Generator is available in three versions. The free version can be downloaded from here and is free for non-commercial use. There are also two commercial versions available that are aimed for the professional users. See product feature chart to the right for a comparison between the versions.

Free Lite Pro Free for non-commercial use Graphical user interface Command line tool for scripting or integration Advanced control over caustics pattern Live preview output while changing parameters Bitmap (BMP) file output Commercial use allowed Animation playback preview Tiling preview Motion blur High dynamic range image output (EXR) Fast rendering of animations on multi-CPU computers Surface height map output Windows 64-bit Image output size limit 512x512 2048x2048 Unlimited

Sample Images To the right are some sample images generated with Caustics Generator. Click on images for a tiled example.

Sample Animation Click on image to view an animation sequence of a looping caustics rendering. This example uses 60 frames of rendering at 30 fps playback that is looped five times to create a 10 second animation.

Application User Interface Screenshot of the Caustics Generator user interface.

Download You can download caustics generator free of charge from here. The program can be freely used for non-commercial purposes.

Caustics Generator 3.7 Free for Windows Caustics Generator Pro User's Guide

System Requirements

Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
Linux (Pro version upon request)