In 1990, the Video Toaster suite was released, incorporating LightWave 3D, and running on the Amiga computer. Originally intended to be called "NewTek 3D Animation System for the Amiga", Hastings later came up with the name "LightWave 3D", inspired by two contemporary high-end 3D packages: Intelligent Light and Wavefront. NewTek planned to incorporate VideoScape and Modeler into its video editing suite, Video Toaster. In 1988, Allen Hastings created a rendering and animation program called VideoScape 3D, and his friend Stuart Ferguson created a complementary 3D modeling program called Modeler, both sold by Aegis Software. ( September 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Programmers can expand LightWave's capabilities using an included SDK which offers Python, LScript (a proprietary scripting language) scripting and C language interfaces. The animation component has features such as inverse and forward kinematics for character animation, particle systems and dynamics. The 3D modeling component supports both polygon modeling and subdivision surfaces. It includes a fast rendering engine that supports such advanced features as realistic reflection, radiosity, caustics, and 999 render nodes. LightWave is a software package used for rendering 3D images, both animated and static. It has been used in films, television, motion graphics, digital matte painting, visual effects, video game development, product design, architectural visualizations, virtual production, music videos, pre-visualizations and advertising. Product and service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.LightWave 3D is a 3D computer graphics program developed by NewTek. (SPEC), a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of computers. SPECapc is part of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. Current members include AMD, Autodesk, Dell, Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, NEC and NVIDIA. SPECapc was formed in 1997 to address performance evaluation based on popular workstation applications. The SPECapc group also provides free benchmarks for systems running Autodesk Maya 6.5 and 3ds Max 9, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0, SolidWorks 2007, and Solid Edge V19 and NX 4 from Siemens PLMS. A Mac OS X version is planned for the near future. SPECapc for LightWave 3D v9.6 is available for free downloading on the SPEC web site: It is available currently for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista 32- and 64-bit platforms. “Our thanks to NewTek for its cooperation and input throughout the development process.” “We are excited to deliver a benchmark with such a complete representation of a LightWave v9.6 workflow,” says Dan Bennett, SPECapc chair. “Congratulations to all – this is great work and provides a valuable industry metric.” “We at NewTek are proud of being chosen as a standard to determine the actual performance of any hardware system and to have LightWave included in the respected SPECapc suite of benchmarking tools for computationally intensive applications,” says Jay Roth, president, 3D Division, NewTek. The benchmark puts special emphasis on processes that benefit from multi-threaded computing, such as animation, OpenGL playback, deformations, and high-end rendering that includes ray tracing, radiosity, complex textures and volumetric lighting. Scores for individual workloads are composited under three categories: interactive, render and multitask. Models ranging up to 1.75 million polygons represent such applications as 3D character animation, architectural review, and industrial design. SPECapc for LightWave v9.6, developed in cooperation with NewTek, provides realistic workloads that simulate a typical LightWave 3D workflow. LightWave™ is a complete modeling, rendering and animation solution used worldwide for visual effects in television, film, broadcast graphics, games, visualization, print and web. WARRENTON, Va., Ap– SPEC’s Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released new performance evaluation software for systems running NewTek LightWave 3D® v9.6 software. SPECapc releases new Lightwave 3D® benchmark Search all SPEC CPU 2017 Floating Point Rate results.Search all SPEC CPU 2017 Floating Point Speed results.Search all SPEC CPU 2017 Integer Rate results.Search all SPEC CPU 2017 Integer Speed results.Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
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