Stardraw Previews New 3D Software

Software provider Stardraw opened their trade show season in a confident mood with the first previews of a new design and visualization package – Stardraw Lighting 3D.

Scheduled for release in Q3 the new application emerges as a long-anticipated successor to Stardraw Professional which has been a popular tool for Lighting Designers for the past five years. The new application draws on the many advances Stardraw have made in the realms of component-based and web-enabled software, as shown by their family of standalone design and documentation tools and Stardraw.net, and also capitalizes on the huge leaps seen in graphics card capabilities in recent years.

Managing Director David Snipp said, “With Stardraw Lighting 3D we've focused on speed and ease of use – when you're using the application you can work on and move through your fully rendered design in real-time. The experience is comparable to the latest generation of first-person computer games, it is that fast.”

Like its predecessor, Stardraw Lighting 3D supports unlimited objects, lightsources and textures, but adds rendering of lightbeams, shadows, gobos and rotating gobos. Snipp continued, “We have been able to add so much more to this application, and still improve rendering speeds by a factor of twenty, thanks in part to the way graphics cards have developed since our very first 3D application 10 years ago. In many cases your graphics card today is as powerful as the computer's main CPU and we take advantage of everything that the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) has to offer. Stardraw Professional was fast, but Stardraw Lighting 3D takes your breath away.”

The new application is scheduled for launch in the third quarter of 2003 and is expected to be delivered as an online application. Snipp commented, “Our development strategy is to develop web-enabled applications and deliver them using an Application Service Provider (ASP) model. ASP is the way of the future and all of the giant software houses are making promises about ASP tools. We have already released software of this type, namely Stardraw.net, and Stardraw Lighting 3D is to be the next member of our online family.”

For further information on Stardraw design and documentation products including their web-based technology Stardraw.net, please visit www.stardraw.com

Notes to Editor

Since 1995 Stardraw.com has been a leading provider of software solutions to the entertainment technology sector, offering a range of award-winning system design, documentation and control applications as well as providing OEM software solutions for corporate customers. With offices in London and New York, regional partners and an installed customer base of almost 30,000 users spanning 82 countries, Stardraw.com is focussed on serving the international marketplace, and delivers leading-edge solutions that exploit the very latest in software technologies.

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Rob Robinson, Stardraw.com Ltd. 78 York Street London, W1H 1DP England T: +44 (0)207 692 7117 F: +44 (0)207 692 7118 e: rob.robinson@stardraw.com		Kiera Leeming, KLPR Ltd. T: +33 (0)684 06 26 42 e: kiera@klpr.co.uk