LightWorks 7.0 - New Modular Product Suite to be Unveiled at SIGGRAPH; Providing Customers with the Ultimate Market-Focused Rendering Solution

    SHEFFIELD, England--16 July 2002)--LightWork Design, the world's leading supplier of quality advanced computer graphics software for rendering, simulation and verification solutions, will be unveiling a new modular product suite for LightWorks - the world's leading rendering engine - at this year's SIGGRAPH exhibition in San Antonio.
    LightWorks 7.0 has been restructured as a comprehensive suite of products, each focusing on a specific area of rendering functionality. The new product suite has been designed to enable the creation of a wide range of rendering solutions for all types of market and application. This means that customers - software developers - can select the product set that satisfies the exact needs of their market, enabling the creation of efficient and powerful CAD applications for their users. The modular structure will also give customers the ability to easily introduce additional functionality to their applications when required.

    Other new developments that will be previewed at SIGGRAPH include:

Second-Generation Global Illumination

    By incorporating innovative technologies, LightWorks Global Illumination will be significantly easier to control than the first-generation global illumination technology in other renderers, and will maintain the renowned fast performance of LightWorks. It will give designers unprecedented power for creating subtle images that include the specular and diffuse light-transfer from glossy surfaces and direct caustics.

Industry Specific Content

    LightWorks Content, including materials, light studios, 3D objects and other productivity enhancing add-ons, provides a powerful way for designers to enhance image realism. Designers have already welcomed the recent release of Mold-Tech and Roehlen materials, which enable the accurate visualization of industry standard surface finishes for molded and embossed products. At SIGGRAPH LightWork Design will be previewing more LightWorks Content to be available soon.

Interactive Photorealism

    LightWork Design works closely with the leading graphics hardware suppliers to integrate the unique shading technology of LightWorks with hardware rendering, maximising the benefits for software developers and users. The LightWorks OpenGL 2.0 demo - appearing on both the LightWork Design and 3Dlabs booths at SIGGRAPH - will show examples of the power that LightWorks brings to hardware-assisted rendering.

    To find out more, go to the LightWork Design booth 14109 or contact the LightWorks Marketing Department: lightworks.marketing@lightworkdesign.com

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