Chaos Corona
| Chaos Corona | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Corona Renderer (formerly) |
| Original author(s) |
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| Developer(s) | Chaos Czech Chaos |
| Initial release | 2009 |
| Middleware | Autodesk 3ds Max, Maxon Cinema 4D |
| Operating system | Windows, OS X |
| Type | rendering engine |
| Website | chaos |
Chaos Corona is a computer-generated imagery 3D rendering software developed by Chaos Czech, a subsidiary of Chaos. It was created by Ondřej Karlík as a student project in 2009 and was developed by a Prague-based company Render Legion under the name Corona Renderer. In 2017, Chaos Group acquired Render Legion, later rebranding the company to Chaos Czech. In 2022, Corona Renderer was rebranded to Chaos Corona.
It's commonly used for architectural visualization. Corona is provided as a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maxon Cinema 4D, and a standalone GUI-less application. Chaos Corona is a CPU-based rendering engine that can perform both biased and unbiased rendering and is sometimes used as a benchmark tool to measure CPU performance in multi-threaded workloads.