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LightWork Design today announced the release of LightWorks 7.8. The main focus of this release is to improve the accuracy, performance and the ease-of-use of lighting, global illumination, tone mapping and gamma correction making the creation of photorealistic imagery easier. Further details on this release are available from the Web site.

LightWork Design today released a LightWorks solution designed specifically to meet the demands of the Configuration market place. “LightWork Design has created this new solution to provide application developers with a complete solution for integrating powerful, easy-to-use rendering and visualization technology into their Configuration applications.

LightWork Design today announced an update to the 64-bit version of the LightWorks rendering engine for G5 processors running Mac OS X. “The G5 64-bit CPUs are able to access larger amounts of memory than previous CPUs, helping customers to anticipate demand and release products that give end-users increased efficiency, which is particularly useful for those working with very large and complex models,” notes LightWork. The latest update to the 64-bit version for the G5 includes increases in performance and efficiency.

LightWork Design, a supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, today announced the release of a new version of LightWorks optimized for the new range of Apple’s G5 Power Macs. The company says that this “new version of LightWorks running on G5 hardware gives users typical performance increases of 1.3 times.

LightWork Design today announced the “imminent” release of LightWorks 7.3, a new version of its flagship 3D design software. Version 7.3 will bring support for cross-platform plug-in shaders, which will be encapsulated inside the secure LWA format to allow shaders to be distributed directly to users for importing into their applications. The update also offers performance increases of up to 40 percent in a range of features, including considerably faster IIR rendering.

LightWork Design has announced the launch of the LightWorks Automotive Pack, a new product designed to meet the needs of automotive stylists, designers and engineers. The new software tool contains a range of rendering technologies and services and is supplied as a complete solution comprising the SDK, documentation and a full range of support services to assist users during all stages of the design process.

LightWork Design has announced the release of an Altivec-optimized update for LightWorks 7.0, giving customers a “significant boost” in performance. The Altivec optimization, built on the new software architecture introduced in LightWorks 7.0, gives users a performance increase of up to 1.5 times for typical scenes containing soft shadows, ray tracing and procedural shaders, according to the company.