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title: "Mental Images: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Mental Images GmbH was a German computer-generated imagery (CGI) software company based in Berlin, Germany. In 2007, Nvidia acquired the company and rebranded it as the Nvidia Advanced Rendering Center (ARC)."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-mental-images
type: Organization
wikidata: Q6817432
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Images
website: http://www.mentalimages.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Mental Images

> Mental Images GmbH was a German computer-generated imagery (CGI) software company based in Berlin, Germany. In 2007, Nvidia acquired the company and rebranded it as the Nvidia Advanced Rendering Center (ARC).

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1986-01-01
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: private
- Website: http://www.mentalimages.com/
- Also known as: Mental images GmbH
- Industries: computer-generated imagery

## Products

- Mental Ray

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Mental Images, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-mental-images#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6817432, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Images

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