SHEFFIELD, UK (23 July 2010) - Lightworks, the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, is pleased to announce its participation at this year’s SIGGRAPH computer graphics exhibition in Los Angeles, California.

Dave Forrester, Managing Director at Lightworks, commented “Siggraph is recognised as the leading conference in its field and as such we believe it is important for us to be part of this event, to remain at the forefront of technological advancements and to demonstrate our latest Lightworks technology to key players in the industry.”

Lightworks will have a major presence at this year’s exhibition, and visitors to both the exhibition and the conference will be able to find out about many of the latest exciting developments from Lightworks:

Special Show Announcements
Siggraph 2010 will see the announcement of new Lightworks solutions which take advantage of the latest GPU technology, as well as Lightworks Alto, a new network/cloud rendering product. In addition to this, the next release of Lightworks Author will be shown which features new Image Based Lighting and Tone Mapping, as well as the latest version of Lightworks Artisan which boasts an updated user interface among other features.

Technical paper at Siggraph Conference
Manuel Gamito – one of the Company’s development team - will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Accurate Multi-Dimensional Poisson-Disk Sampling. Go to Room 502B at 15.30 on Tuesday the 27th July to listen to this.

Partnership with Caustic Graphics
Lightworks has implemented OpenRL, the latest generation of technology from Caustic Graphics. A demonstration of how this is being used within Lightworks Artisan and Lightworks Author to accelerate rendering, can be seen on both the Lightworks booth # 225 and the Caustic Graphics booth # 211.

Partnership with Intel
Greg Whitfield, Research & Development Director at Lightworks, will be participating in the Intel Theatre where he will be taking about ‘The use of Intel tools to develop next generation rendering’ on Wednesday the 28th of July.

To see these latest developments, visit Lightworks on booth # 225
To read more information about what Lightworks will be doing at Siggraph, go to our Siggraph webpage 

Lightworks
Lightworks is the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software. Now in its 21st year, Lightworks continues to develop products to provide customers with innovative and market-focused solutions for the creation of powerful and easy-to-use rendering applications. Renowned for providing physically accurate visualisation of real-world objects and environments, Lightworks is the ideal choice for companies wanting to target the Architectural, Interior and Mechanical Design markets. Lightworks gives customers fast and efficient access to leading-edge rendering technology, resulting in shorter development cycles, faster time-to-market for new products, and lower software development costs.

Lightworks technology is embedded in over 80 software applications and used by more than 3 million users worldwide.

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