Lightworks will be at SIGGRAPH again this year, and once again will be showing how well their products operate with the impressive Caustic Ray-Tracing solutions. This year they’ll have the CausticOne and the new OpenRL spec showing real-time raytracing power.
Dave Hutchinson, Product Director at Lightworks, commented “At Lightworks we aim to be at the forefront of new technology so that our customers are always in the best position to compete within the global market place. We’re delighted to be able to enhance our products by offering OpenRL to our customers, as we know it will be incredibly beneficial and give additional value to their own applications.”
It’s important to note that while many vendors are showing “RealTime Raytracing” systems, only the Caustic solution is truly RealTime & Interactive full-screen Raytracing. Many solutions use iterative rendering (like mental images’ iray), but the Caustic solution renders full-frame real-time RayTraced imagery, and even allows geometry and light manipulation on-the-fly.
I plan to stop by their booth and check it out, I recommend you do as well!
via Lightworks implements Caustic OpenRL to accelerate rendering.
