Aftercad Announces Support for Caustic Graphics OpenRL™ across all 3D Visualization and Collaboration Products.

VANCOUVER, BC - March 29th, 2010 - Aftercad Software is pleased to announce its support for Caustic Graphics' implementation of the Open Raytracing Library (OpenRL™) specification and will be incorporating the technology across all Aftercad 3D products.

"Caustic Graphics' implementation of OpenRL will change 3D graphics in what is has to offer, and will take our 3D rendering to new levels of realism and quality, all from within the browser" said Christopher Boothroyd, CEO of Aftercad Software "Combined with our disruptive 3D delivery technology for the Web, Caustic's OpenRL API is disruptive by massively reducing the cost of creating cinema quality graphics content and the combination of the two technologies will change the way 3D is viewed on the web for good".

Similar to OpenGL for rasterization, the OpenRL specification is a framework for writing ray tracing applications that execute across heterogeneous compute platforms. Today there is no open standard, cross-platform API for ray tracing. Consequently developers must program their ray tracing applications "to the metal" or accept “vendor lock-in” by using a proprietary closed standard that is limited to a specific subset of hardware. Caustic's implementation of OpenRL runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, and will identify and take advantage of CPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware devices all simultaneously.

By incorporating OpenRL into its 3D server side rendering applications, Aftercad will continue to be the undisputed leader in pluginless 3D Web publishing and in a position of envy from one or two CAD incumbents. "Once again Aftercad has raised the bar for 3D technologies and our thought leadership in the field of Web display remains strong. We recognized the potent combination of our technologies last year and will be the first to bring this to zero-wait-state 3D publishing. Now you can have your 3D with simply the click of a link and have your raytracing at the same time."

About Aftercad

Aftercad is a leading provider of innovative products and solutions that enable the viewing and publishing of complex 3D data sets over the web. Aftercad’s Live Web technology allows organizations to publish, share, annotate and manage 3D CAD data for Digital Prototyping, Manufacturing, Building Information Modeling and Infrastructure Planning.

About Caustic Graphics

Caustic Graphics, creators of OpenRL, is reinventing raytracing and changing how interactive cinema-quality 3D graphics are produced, used, and enjoyed. Caustic's patent-pending technology raises the quality bar for real ray-traced images without cutting corners for performance, fits well with today's standard 3D graphics hardware, applications and content, and offers a price/performance level that's cost-effective for broad adoption. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.caustic.com.

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