Chaos is a rendering and

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headquartered in

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, Germany and

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, Bulgaria. It was founded in 1997 by Peter Mitev and Vladimir Koylazov as Chaos Group. Chaos is best known for the development of V-Ray. In 2022, it merged with Enscape, with the resulting company keeping the Chaos brand.

History

Chaos was founded in 1997 in Sofia, Bulgaria as Chaos Group by Peter Mitev and Vladimir Koylazov. The company released its first product, fire and smoke simulation software ''Phoenix'', then called ''Phoenix FD''. In 2002, it released the first version of 3D rendering software '' V-Ray''. In 2017, Vladimir Koylazov, then CTO of Chaos, received a Scientific and Engineering Award from the

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for his work on V-Ray. In 2021, Chaos went on to win an Engineering Emmy Award from the

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for their work on it. Other products released by Chaos include ''Cosmos'', ''Vantage'', ''Scans'' and ''Cloud'', most of them tying into V-Ray. In 2017, the company acquired Czech software developer Render Legion, known for '' Corona Renderer'', later rebranding the subsidiary to Chaos Czech. As part of a larger rebranding effort by Chaos, Corona Renderer was rebranded to ''Chaos Corona'' in 2022, bringing it in line with the rest of the company's products. In 2021, the company rebranded from Chaos Group to Chaos. In January 2022, the company merged with German software developer Enscape, with the resulting company maintaining the Chaos brand. Following the merger, Chaos acquired Danish 3D product visualization platform developer Cylindo in April. In May, the company acquired architectural visualization website CGarchitect, best known for their 3D Awards program. As part of the latter purchase, all paid features of the newly acquired website were made available to all accounts for free. On July 11 2023, Chaos acquired Italian software developer AXYZ design, known for their crowd animation software ''anima'' and their range of stock 3D characters ''metropoly''.

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* {{Official website, https://www.chaos.com/ 2022 mergers and acquisitions Companies established in 1997 Bulgarian companies established in 1997 Software companies of Bulgaria Companies based in Sofia