PR - Bentley Systems,
Incorporated today announced that it has entered into a technology
agreement with Luxology LLC – maker of the modo 3D software widely used
by video professionals and graphic artists. Through this agreement,
Bentley will license Luxology’s super-fast, photorealistic rendering
engine for inclusion in its forthcoming release of MicroStation.
Though the Luxology technology is the preferred renderer for a broad
community of users, including major film studios, it is ideally suited
to the demanding requirements of AEC applications to quickly produce
extremely high-quality images and animations from huge datasets that
typically include vast numbers of parametrically replicated geometry
elements.
The super-fast Luxology rendering engine, combined with breakthrough “compression” techniques for replicated geometry in MicroStation,
will allow users to generate images and animations with life-like
detail, and uniquely enable designers to make real-time decisions from
near-real-time rendering within interactive AEC workflows. Unlike other
approaches currently available, no time is wasted transferring datasets
between the design environment and a separate – and often costly –
rendering system requiring special training. As a result, world-class
photorealistic rendering has finally become a readily accessible tool
for virtually every AEC practitioner and project, empowering design
teams to:
- Immediately visualize and further refine potential designs to provide better-performing infrastructure,
- More easily secure stakeholder buy-in on concept and final
design work with high-impact presentations as a routine by-product of
their work.
Commenting on the new agreement, Brad Peebler, Luxology President
and Founder, said, “Bentley put us through a rigorous comparison test
and we feel fortunate for this opportunity to work with one of the AEC
community’s leading providers of software solutions and products. We
look forward to seeing how Bentley and MicroStation users take advantage of the rendering power we are providing.”
Bentley Systems Executive Vice President Ray Bentley said, “We’ve
always delivered an outstanding set of visualization tools integrated
with our MicroStation
design platform, and have taken them to an even higher level of
flexibility and ease of use in our forthcoming release. Now we can
offer users the capability to create visualizations of unsurpassed
realism in a lot less time by choosing the Luxology engine from among
the many rendering options in MicroStation.
In fact, the Luxology engine is so fast that our users will be able to
create animations in the time it takes most renderers to create a
single image. The new renderer will be available as a simple menu
option within our interface, and will not require separate training or
specialized hardware.”
The Luxology engine is a fast ray-tracer that can render millions of
polygons at enormous frame sizes. In addition, it is highly scalable on
multi-core systems and can speed the rendering of immensely
comprehensive scenes using up to 32 cores per workstation.
Features of this technology that contribute to its high-quality
renderings include global illumination and physically-based shading
models, which provide advanced optical phenomena such as anisotropic
blurry reflections, indirect caustics, and subsurface scattering. In
addition, realistic camera models include lens distortion, motion blur,
and depth of field, and physical sky and physical sun rendering
provides accurate sunlight at any location as well as support for
photometric lighting through the IES standard.
Added Mr. Bentley, “As exciting as all of these visualization
improvements are, they are just the beginning. Our ongoing licensing
arrangement with Luxology gives us access to the steady stream of
enhancements from Luxology’s outstanding development team and will
allow us to provide our users with ‘best of breed’ visualization – and
unique integration – for years to come.”
Subscribers to Bentley’s SELECT program for MicroStation
and related AEC applications will get the Luxology rendering engine at
no additional charge as part of the new release this fall. For more
information about MicroStation, visit www.bentley.com/MicroStation.
For more information about the Luxology technology, visit www.luxology.com.
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