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Cinema 4D
Maxon
3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software. Cinema 4D Subscription Release 24 (S24) includes functionality to easily browse and obtain models, materials and other assets, and to intuitively place them within the scene. The release also includes key workflow enhancements and a sneak peek at the continued progress on the Scene Nodes and Scene Manager interfaces to the new core. Cinema 4D is a professional 3D modeling, animation, simulation and rendering software solution. Its fast, powerful, flexible and stable toolset make 3D workflows more accessible and efficient for design, motion graphics, VFX, AR/MR/VR, game development and all types of visualization professionals. Cinema 4D produces stunning results, whether working on your own or in a team. Cinema 4D is widely recognized as one of the easiest and most accessible 3D packages to learn and use. To soften that learning curve Maxon offers thousands of tutorials on Cineversity and hundreds of Quick Tips.Starting Price: $16.58 per month -
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Fujiyama
Fujiyama
Fujiyama is free and open source, distribution oriented ray-tracing renderer designed to handle production image rendering. Multi-threaded rendering - dynamic assignement of tile rendering per theread. Rendering preview - fbview shows rendering progress. Region rendering - accelerates distribution rendering pipeline. Tile based rendering. Volume Filling Procedure - Pyroclastic clouds procedure provided. Volume Filling Procedure - Spline wisps procedure provided. Volume Filling Procedure - Surface wisps procedure provided. On demand reading of mipmap - unlimited number of texture images. Pluggable shader DSO - shaders can be written in C/C++. Subsurface scattering - implemented in shader. Bump mapping - perturb normals based on mipmap images. Primitive groups - multiple shader assignment on triangle mesh. Gaussian and Box pixel filters - supports filter width bigger than 1 pixel. Adaptive grid pixel sampling - subdivides pixels based on color threshold. -
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Raylectron
Raylectron
Raylectron took many years of research and testing. Creating such software is not an easy task. While Raytracing exist already for many years prior to Raylectron, they are not photorealistic. To achieve photorealism, tracing the light path to illuminate the objects in a scene requires the understanding of the law of physics, such as photons and how they interact with the surface of the object they hit. In real life, photons travel at the speed of light, hence everything is illuminated almost instantly (to our perception). But as a computer program, this can not be done so easily. First, speed is a big issue. Computers do not calculate anywhere near the speed of light. Furthermore, the mathematics involved is extremely complex. All of the features combined into one single software. Select from a wide range of illumination and a combination of them. Texturing your model has never been so easy, in real-time!Starting Price: $99.95 per license -
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LuxCoreRender
LuxCoreRender
LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxCoreRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality. LuxCoreRender is built on physically based equations that model the transportation of light. LuxCoreRender uses OpenCL to run on any number of CPUs and/or GPUs available. LuxCoreRender is and will always be free software, both for private and commercial use. LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine based on state of the art algorithms. A showcase of what LuxCoreRender users have been able to achieve. LuxCoreRender features a variety of material types. Apart from generic materials such as matte and glossy, physically accurate representations of metal, glass, and car paint are present. LuxCoreRender supports dynamic and interactive scene editing. -
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Redshift
Maxon
Redshift is a powerful GPU-accelerated renderer, built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering. Tailored to support creative individuals and studios of every size, Redshift offers a suite of powerful features and integrates with industry standard CG applications. Redshift has the features and uncompromising quality of a CPU renderer, but at GPU rendering speeds. Unlike other GPU renderers out there, Redshift is a biased renderer that allows the user to adjust the quality of individual techniques in order to get the best performance/quality balance for their production. Redshift supports complex, advanced shading networks and texturing capabilities as required for production-quality rendering. Flexible, production-ready shader, compatible with PBR workflows of Allegorithmic Substance and Unreal Engine. Control how materials behave for certain ray types. Useful for customizing GI or double-sided polygon shading.Starting Price: $500 -
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Realsoft 3D
Realsoft Graphics
Open design combined with a rich set of features has been the main strength of Realsoft 3D. Feature wise, Realsoft 3D challenges the most famous competitors and offers a better price/performance ratio. In some areas (e.g. SDS modelling, ray tracing), the product is the best on the market. Another major advantage is that the intelligent, context sensitive user interface is suitable for both novice users and skilled professionals. The program grows with and adapts to the skill level of the user. The program is used in different applications, for example by artists working in the advertising industry, architects, product designers, educational institutions, game industry and hobby users. As a versatile yet affordable product ($700), Realsoft 3D has quite a large group of potential users. Realsoft 3D is a powerful tool for making best quality photorealistic images, and there is a huge number of people who need images every day.Starting Price: $700 -
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Visual Vertex Muster
Virtual Vertex
Muster 9 is our software to provide a clean and powerfull system to manage CGI Renderfarms and distributed computing. It has a wide range of incredible features, a clean interface and an huge amount of customizations facilities. Easy for wranglers, powerfull for pipeline’s developers. Muster includes an integrated web server engine that’s the core of our HTTP/Rest APIs but also exposes a minimal, clean, and intuitive web based interface to its core features. Based on the Bootstrap framework, Muster is mobile ready right from the start. Its responsive, mobile fluid system let you take control of the dispatcher service using your phone, your tablet or your web browser. Take total control of your farm hosts with a clean report that lets you manage any aspect of your devices. You can even take remote control over them or shutdown and wakeup hosts, manually or automatically!Starting Price: $85 per license -
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AIR
SiTex Graphics
AIR is an advanced 3D graphics renderer with a unique architecture and extensive features designed for the rapid production of high-quality images. AIR is a hybrid renderer, combining the advantages of scanline rendering - fast rendering of complex scenes, motion blur, and depth of field - with the flexibility of on-demand ray tracing for accurate reflections, soft shadows, global illumination, and caustics. AIR supports a broad range of geometric primitives, including polygon meshes, trimmed NURBs, subdivision meshes, curves, particles, and implicit surfaces. All primitives are supported in their natural form; no pre-meshing is required. AIR also provides true (sub-pixel) displacement and high-dynamic range (HDR) input and output. AIR offers the flexibility of fully programmable shading and procedural modeling. Users can extend the shading language by writing new functions in any programming language.Starting Price: $375 per license -
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Arc+
Space Tech International
ARC+ a software created by architects, for architects. For over 30 years ARC+ develops software solutions serving architects, designers and building professionals. ARC + offers architects and other building professionals a simple and ergonomic way to move from idea to reality while respecting everyone creative spirit, "The Freedom of Design." With an interactive and efficient 2D / 3D modeller it is possible to model any geometry or to use the existing architectural modules for creating stairs, walls, windows etc. ARC + does not stop there as it offers a range of fully integrated add-ons. A 3D rendering engine allows you to sell your project by generating, among others, photorealistic images. An editing and project’s structure management module allows you to display areas, perimeters and other quantitative data in order to communicate them to the client directly from your production documents.The construction industry is changing, ARC + too. -
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Art of Illusion
Art of Illusion
Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Highlights include subdivision surface based modelling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials. The current version is 3.2.0, released January 13, 2021. This version is both stable and powerful enough to be used for serious, high end animation work. We now have an extensive documentation section. This includes the user manual, as well as a number of tutorials covering different aspects of the program. The interface is designed to be clean, easy to learn, and simple to use. Art of Illusion provides subdivision surface based modelling tools for creating smooth surfaces from control meshes of arbitrary shape and structure. A powerful set of deformation tools allow you to "sculpt" objects in a natural, intuitive way. -
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Horde3D
The Horde3D Team
Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine. It is written in an effort to create a graphics engine that offers the stunning visual effects expected in next-generation games while at the same time being as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible. Horde3D has a simple and intuitive interface accessible from virtually any programming language and is particularly suitable for rendering large crowds of animated characters in next-generation quality. The complete scene graph and animation systems are designed with this requirement in mind. For example, Horde3D tries to keep node hierarchies small to reduce call overhead and to use cached data for faster animations. The geometry is optimized for efficient cache usage and you can use several levels of detail for a model. Furthermore, it is possible to use vertex skinning and apply deferred shading to reduce the number of draw calls for scenes with many lights. -
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RenderDotC
Dot C Software
Dot C Software's flagship product, RenderDotC, is a world class photorealistic renderer designed to meet the demands of special effects for film. The primary reason people give for choosing RenderDotC is its favorable price per performance ratio. Moreover, RenderDotC scores high marks on everything that matters for a production renderer. Images produced with RenderDotC possess that indescribable yet beautiful quality that some people refer to as "the RenderMan look". All phenomena that are prone to aliasing artifacts are effectively anti-aliased and noise is kept to a minimum. RenderDotC was designed in the 1990's to take advantage of the current hardware and software technologies. Its CPU and memory performance is unsurpassed by all renderers in its class. There are hundreds of details to get right when developing a renderer and that only comes with maturity. RenderDotC is priced competitively for both the film and broadcast markets.Starting Price: $500 -
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POV-Ray
POV-Ray
POV-Ray™ is short for the Persistence of Vision Raytracer™, a tool for producing high-quality computer graphics. POV-Ray is Free Software (as per the definition of the Free Software Foundation) as its source code is licensed under the Affero General Public License (AGPL). POV-Ray was developed from DKBTrace 2.12 by a bunch of people (called the POV-Team™) in their spare time. The headquarters of the POV-Team is on the internet. The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can also be modified so you do not have to start from scratch. In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided. You can include these shapes and materials in your own scenes by just including the library file name at the top of your scene file. -
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Poser
Poser
Poser is a 3D computer graphics program optimized for 3D modeling of human figures. It is known for enabling digital artists to easily produce 3D animations and digital images, as well as the extensive availability of third-party digital content. Since 1995, Poser has been the go-to software tool for 3D characters in illustration and animation for over 500,000 digital artists. Poser is a digital stage that gives you full creative control. Work with 3D figures for any project requiring rendered images or animated video. Drag 3D content right from Poser’s own library of over 5 GB of content onto the stage and into your scene. Upgrade to Poser 12 from any Poser 11 license. Enjoy GPU rendering and import/export support for major 3D software packages. Poser 12 is a 3D universe that allows users to easily illustrate and animate using its new features including a new SuperFly render engine, expanded graphic card support, a new post effects palette, Python 3 support, and more.Starting Price: $249.95 one-time payment -
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Element 3D
Video Copilot
High-performance After Effects™ plug-in for creating motion design and visual FX! Cast shadows using special matte shadow material. Supports shadows and ambient occlusion shading. Options for shadow color tint and opacity. Multiple distortion noise modes. Advanced fractal settings. Combine with transfer modes! For best performance use dynamic reflections on essential objects to preserve GPU memory. Control wireframe settings per material. Great for UI design or HUD graphics. Element requires a hardware license to be generated. We have built this into the plugin so it can be done faster! Video Copilot is a collaborative resource for training, design tools, and artists. Our goal is to show you what is possible and how effects can be created so that you can apply these techniques to your own creative adventures. We strive to develop distinctive and innovative tools that improve the quality and speed of your production while offering freedom and flexibility.Starting Price: $199.95 one-time payment -
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Univah Film Engine
The Stephanie Michaels Software Company
The Univah Film Engine (Univah Pro) is an advanced Real-Time 3D rendering and animation software for professional 3D animation studios. Univah Pro is dedicated to the creation of very large virtual worlds. Render entire planets with trees, oceans, rivers, roads, cars and people all in real time. Add realistic visual effects such as rain, snow, explosions all in real time. Add advanced physics to objects such as soft body physics, destruction physics, hard body and hair physics all in real time. FEATURES 1. Ease of Use - We specifically designed The Univah Film Engine to be a powerful tool for filmmakers, without being unnecessarily complicated and difficult to learn. 2. Clean User Interface - Learning a new software can be daunting. When you launch Univah Pro for the first time, we dont want you to be overwhelmed. 3. Blend Shapes, Deformers, Morphs - In Univah, we have an "Animate Anything" approach, so that this tool is attractive to professional filmmakers. -
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CrowdRender
CrowdRender
CrowdRender is an alternative to render farms and render farm software (like deadline). Our software is licensed under the GPL V3, and primarily supports Blender's render pipeline, it supports Windows, MacOS and linux. The goal of the addon is to provide a simple, single install package that turns a laptop, desktop, workstation or server into a worker that can collaboratively render an animation or single image. We aim to make this as simple as possible so the plugin can be used by a single freelancer, without a deep knowledge of networking, right up to a technical director/software dev working at a large studio.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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KeyShot
KeyShot
KeyShot brings you real-time 3D rendering that displays results instantly and reduces the time to create realistic product visuals. KeyShot is trusted by brands around the world for its speed, ease of use, scientifically accurate materials, and advanced material editing capabilities. Communicate your ideas easier, explore concepts sooner, and deliver jaw-dropping visuals faster – Try KeyShot today. KeyShot includes native support for over 30 leading 3D file formats. Free plugins offer one-click loading, while LiveLinking keeps your design in sync across applications. Whether it’s a small gadget or a massive assembly, using KeyShot means less time loading and more time creating. KeyShot includes over 750 preset materials, with thousands more on the KeyShot Cloud, and advanced capabilities to create your own. Apply textures, labels, and variations with ease. KeyShot’s powerful lighting, studio, and image tools allow you to capture and style the perfect shot, every time. -
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Thea Render
Altair
Thea Render is the most versatile 3D renderer featuring state-of-the-art unbiased and GPU engines. All the engines operate within the same framework and switching from one to another is just a click away. Thea Render is tightly integrated inside Trimble SketchUp® and Robert McNeel & Associates Rhinoceros®. -
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Bforartists
Bforartists
Bforartists is a complete, free and open source 3D suite to create 3D content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, prerendered movies and stills. From modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, up to post processing. Bforartists stands for Be For Artists. A reminder to develop for the user, not the programmer. Bforartists is a fork of the popluar open source 3D software Blender. Developed by some 3D enthusiasts to make Blender even better. The primary goal of the Bforartists fork is to deliver a better graphical UI and a better usability. This means a complete switch in the usage philosophy. Away from the hotkey and speed centered usage. Towards a user friendly and intuitive graphical UI. Bforartists is fully compatible with the Blender files and addons. Every feature that works in Blender should also work in Bforartists. And we are always up to date with the newest Blender version. The toolset is the same. -
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Patchwork 3D
Lumiscaphe
Lumiscaphe distributes its solutions in direct contact with its customers and through a network of certified partners. Lumiscaphe is the publisher of a software suite that enriches CAD data with a description of the final visual aspect, then allows their use by design, engineering, marketing and sales teams, in particular through innovative and differentiating sales tools (immersive solution, online/offline solution. Lumiscaphe attaches particular importance to research and development work in the field of photorealistic real-time 3D rendering. The R&D and Innovation teams are made up of enthusiasts, coming from IT training specializing in the image, virtual reality, multimedia and software engineering. Lumiscaphe is an editor and integrator of software solutions in the field of Digital Aspect Modeling (DAM) and photorealistic real-time 3D rendering. These solutions save costs and delays and create value for industries. -
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OGRE
OGRE
Since 2001, OGRE has grown to become one of the most popular open-source graphics rendering engines, and has been used in a large number of production projects, in such diverse areas as games, simulators, educational software, interactive art, scientific visualisation, and others. OGRE supports Windows (all major versions), Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, Javascript (via EMScripten), Windows Phone (Sponsored by Microsoft) and WinRT. Also, OGRE was ported to PS3 and Xbox360 for several titles. Ogre is released under the MIT License, which is a permissive open source license. The only condition is that you distribute the license text included in our distribution with any software that uses OGRE. Learn OGRE using our series of introducatary Tutorials. Of course the OGRE team provides official documentation in form of the OGRE Manual and API documentation. -
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Godot
Godot
Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel. Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code. Nodes for all your needs. Godot comes with hundreds of built-in nodes that make game design a breeze. You can also create your own for custom behaviors, editors and much more. Flexible scene system. Create node compositions with support for instancing and inheritance. Visual editor with all the tools you need packed into a beautiful and uncluttered context-sensitive UI. Friendly content creation pipeline for artists, level designers, animators and everyone in between. Persistent live editing where changes are not lost after stopping the game. It even works on mobile devices! Create your own custom tools with ease using the incredible tool system. -
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Kerkythea
Kerkythea
Kerkythea is a freeware software that can produce high quality renders without spending a cent on software licensing. Kerkythea is using physically accurate materials and lights, aiming for the best quality rendering in the most efficient timeframe, with target to simplify the task of quality rendering by providing the necessary tools to automate scene setup, such as staging using the GL real-time viewer, material editor, general/render settings, editors, etc., under a common interface. Kerkythea is a full staging application for rendering your models. And now it’s available for all major platforms Windows, Linux and MacOSX! It accepts .3ds or .obj models, as well as having powerfully developed free exporter for SketchUp. -
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FurryBall
Art And Animation studio
FurryBall combines speed of GPU rendering with QUALITY and features of CPU rendering. FurryBall is an extremely fast rendering system using the processing power of GPU instead of CPU. FurryBall was discontinued in 2018 - sorry, but we do not provide any support or maintenance. Standalone version and plugins are available for Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max and Cinema 4D. FurryBall is an extremely fast rendering system using the processing power of your GPU instead of your CPU. FurryBall offers UNBIASED Monte Carlo raytracing (path trace - similar like CPU Arnold renderer), with real-time progressive preview in the viewport. Final frame rendering to multiple file format, layers and passes are obvious. FurryBall was developed for purposes of CGI animated movies, VFX and feature movie rendering. FurryBall RT is extra simple and easy to use for an artist - you can tune whole image quality with only a single parameter if you want. -
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Direct3D
Microsoft
Direct3D is a low-level API for drawing primitives with the rendering pipeline, or for performing parallel operations with the compute shader. See the content below for more information. Direct3D 12 provides an API and platform that allows your application to take advantage of the graphics and computing capabilities of PCs equipped with one or more Direct3D 12-compatible GPUs. You can use Microsoft Direct3D 11 graphics to create 3-D graphics for games and scientific and desktop applications. DXGI handles enumerating graphics adapters, enumerating display modes, selecting buffer formats, sharing resources between processes, and presenting rendered frames to a window or monitor for display. HLSL is the high-level shader language for DirectX. Using HLSL, you can create C-like programmable shaders for the Direct3D pipeline. The DirectDraw surface file format (DDS) supports uncompressed and compressed (DXTn) textures, mipmaps, cube maps, and volume maps. -
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appleseed
appleseed
appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects. appleseed is actively developed by a small, international team of talented volunteers from the animation and VFX industry. Its core mission is to provide individuals and small studios with a complete, reliable, fully open rendering package. Over the years appleseed has been used on several projects including TV documentaries, ads, promotional videos and an animation short. appleseed implements a modern workflow based on path tracing that enables artifact-free, single pass rendering with very little technical tuning. It is simultaneously capable of strictly unbiased rendering when total accuracy matters, and biased rendering when artistic freedom and shorter rendering time are paramount. -
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MeshLab
MeshLab
The open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes. It provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing and converting meshes. It offers features for processing raw data produced by 3D digitization tools/devices and for preparing models for 3D printing. In this version we introduce support to several file formats (.gltf, .glb, .nxs, .nxz, .e57) and a brand new plugin for exact mesh booleans. The 3D data alignment phase (also known as registration) is a fundamental step in the pipeline for processing 3D scanned data. MeshLab provides a powerful tool for moving the different meshes into a common reference system, able to manage large set of range-maps. MeshLab implements a fine tuned ICP one-to-one alignment step, followed by a global bundle adjustment error-distribution step. The alignment can be performed on meshes and point clouds coming from several sources, including active (both short- and long-range) scanners. -
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Vizcom
Vizcom
See your drawings come to life in seconds. Instantly visualize your ideas with AI-powered creative tools. Quick and effortless rendering. Create a high quality render in seconds with a quick sketch, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual rendering. Start a sketch using your favorite drawing tablet or iPad. Ideate quickly and accelerate your rate of innovation and creativity, efficiently. Supercharge your ideation process by creating unique renders without breaking your creative sprint. Never get the same image twice. Share projects and assets with your team. Share your ideas and see what your team can create together. Download the Vizcom desktop client app for Windows or Mac, and get started with your drawing tablet. -
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AMD Radeon™ ProRender is a powerful physically-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images. Built on AMD’s high-performance Radeon™ Rays technology, Radeon™ ProRender’s complete, scalable ray tracing engine uses open industry standards to harness GPU and CPU performance for swift, impressive results. Features an extensive native physically-based material and camera system to enable true design decisions with global illumination. A powerful combination of cross-platform compatibility, rendering capabilities, and efficiency helps reduce the time required to deliver true-to-life images. Harness the power of machine learning to produce high-quality final and interactive renders in a fraction of the time traditional denoising takes. Free Radeon™ ProRender plug-ins are currently available for many popular 3D content-creation applications to create stunning, physically accurate renders.
