Welcome to the LightWorks-User Newsletter - Summer '04
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New LightWorks-User Website Launch |
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Our LightWorks-User
Site has recently been re-launched to give us the chance
to bring together even more
news, features,
and technological
insights, along with our fantastic collection of
real
world Content, into a single site aimed at anyone involved
in the use of LightWorks. We have teamed up with companies
in our partnership industries, including high profile companies
like
Mannington and
Marley Floors, to release secure LWA archives containing ever-more
realistic real world Content, and all with a view to helping
users get even more out of their LightWorks-based applications.
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Headlines:
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August 2004 Lighting Technologies Licenses LightWorks Rendering
Engine For Lumen Designer Lighting Design & Analysis Software
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July 2004 LightWork Design at SIGGRAPH 2004
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July 2004 Solid Edge creates Virtual Studio+ using LightWorks
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New Content Releases |
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The LightWorks Content authoring team has recently released a
large collection of LWA material archives from
a wide variety of sources, and listed below are just some
of the more recent additions to the ever-expanding list. Look
out for more materials from the likes of Benjamin Moore, and
GE Plastics coming soon. If there are any materials you would
like to see available for download, do let us know...
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Mannington |
Mannington
Mills has been in business since 1915 and been privately
owned for four generations. Working from Corporate headquarters
in Salem, New Jersey, Mannington today continues to
successfully produce high quality flooring products
that have received numerous awards for their outstanding
style and design.
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Marley Floors |
Marley
Floors is one of the world's leading manufacturers of
floor coverings, earning itself a reputation for being
a provider of quality and innovative flooring solutions.
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Mold-Tech |
Mold-Tech
are the inventors of the mold texturization process,
an art science that produces chemically etched three-dimensional
decorative and functional finishes into the surfaces
of metal molds, used to mold plastics and die cast parts
for a wide variety of applications including automotive
dashboards, instrument panels, headliners and trim.
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RAL Colours |
The
RAL color standards are used in a wide range of industries
worldwide for accurately specifying colours and for
communicating design intent.
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Sylmar |
Sylmar
are the sole distributors of the Avonite range of surfaces
in the UK. These acrylic surfaces can be thermoformed
to the most demanding radius, or gently shaped for sweeping
serpentine effects, offering an unparalleled array of
surfacing possibilities and signature solutions.
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New User Gallery
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We have recently set up a brand new gallery showcasing
User’s works from around the world. Featuring many different
rendering techniques from within LightWorks, including
the Sketch
rendering methods, all areas of interest, from AEC
through to Product
Design are covered. To take a look, and for the possibility
of adding your own images to the collection, follow the link
below…
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New Articles |
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features have been of interest to the CAD industry recently,
High Dynamic
Range Images (HDRI), and RPC
from ArchVision, and our team has put together two web
articles to give an overview of both, and can be found by
following the links below…
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New
Unigraphics NX2 LWA Tutorial |
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has been written to make the use of LWA material files even easier
in Unigraphics NX2 from UGS PLM Solutions. Download the included
tutorial files, and see for yourself just how good images
can get.
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Siggraph 2004
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LightWork Design will be exhibiting at the Siggraph Computer Graphics Exhibition
in the USA. This will take place at the LA Convention Center
in Los Angeles from the 10 - 12 August, and LightWork Design
will be in booth 1130. Please come and visit us at the exhibition
to learn more about the latest developments for LightWorks.
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