He planned to create Corona Renderer for Blender, but it was impossible to launch a commercial product due to the restrictive GNU GPL license, so the development focused on Autodesk 3ds Max. He was later joined by a former CGI artist Adam Hotový, and Jaroslav Křivánek, associate professor and researcher at the Charles University in Prague, and founded the company Render Legion.
He started the development as a solo student project at the Czech Technical University in Prague. By that time, GPU renderers were on the rise, but he considered that CPU rendering has great potential. History Ĭorona Renderer was created in 2009 by Ondřej Karlík. 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. Corona is provided as a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maxon Cinema 4D, and a standalone GUI-less application. It's commonly used for architectural visualization. In 2022, Corona Renderer was rebranded to Chaos Corona. In 2017, Chaos Group acquired Render Legion, later rebranding the company to Chaos Czech. It was created by Ondrej Karlík as a student project in 2009 and was developed by a Prague-based company Render Legion under the name Corona Renderer. Chaos Corona is a computer-generated imagery 3D rendering software developed by Chaos Czech, a subsidiary of Chaos.
