“An Italian software developer has introduced a brand new program called Illuminando, noted as the world’s most advanced lighting calculation program — built uniquely on OS X,” Anthony Frausto-Robledo reports for Architosh.
“Brotens software has introduced Illuminando, a brand new OpenGL native Mac OS X based CAD software application for performing lighting calculations using 3D interactive tools,” Frausto-Robledo reports. “The company is claiming it is the most advanced lighting calculation application in the world.”
“It’s not every day a cutting edge new application in a market vertical comes out uniquely for Mac OS X only,” Frausto-Robledo reports. “The developers actually have four OS X lighting-centered applications and this is the latest comprehensive calculation and visualization application for 3D lighting design. There is some impressive tech here, wrapped in a nice and clean UI.”
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Will they eventually dethrone Adobe?
The throne that Adobe sits upon has a flushing lever on the right side.
And they should use that lever once in a while.
too bad the throne does not suck as much as they do or they would be down the tubes !-)
this has nothing to do with adobe type software it is specific for light designers to calculate lumens in architectural situations . i loaded a trial (Im a cad designer) and was hoping it would be a mac application for rendering .3dm or .stl files that was better than Flamingo or maya this app has a long way to go it has already hit my trash can Adobe is safe (and has crummy renderers for 3-d anyhoo !
It might help if you learned how to use caps and punctuation, in order to make your point clearer for readers to understand.
This is for Architectural, Interior, Structural & Lighting Designers, not Adobe software users…
Also Computer Aided Drafting CAD people are not “designers” that are computerized drafters, which is perfectly fine too. ( I’m an Architect / ID / Designer )
Found out about it from this article. Bought it. Already sent in a couple of bugs. 🙂
It costs $50.00 all in. The (Windows only) competition is AGI32 and costs $900 to start and for every major upgrade which come out frequently (it’s V14.6 right now). Plus there are a couple of expensive add-on programs, the functions of which are included with Illuminando.
And AGI32 is a typical Windows program— ugly, inelegant, and incomplete.
I’m hoping for the best from Illuminando.
Mike, LC Emeritus
As well as Computer Aided Drafting CAD people are not stylish to be mechanical drafter. which are great superior also. This is used to be internal Structural & lights designer Adobe software user.