Geomerics
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Geomerics is a software company based in Cambridge, UK. It was founded in 2005 and specialises in creating lighting technology for the games industry. Geomerics' Chief Operating Officer is Gary Lewis[1]. Prior to joining Geomerics Gary Lewis was the Global Chief Operating Officer at Take 2 Interactive. The company was founded by Dr. Chris Doran[2] as a spin out from Cambridge University.
Technology
Geomerics main product is Enlighten [3] [4] [5], which computes radiosity in real-time on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.[6] Enlighten processes scene geometry in an offline step, allowing for real-time updates of the lighting and surface properties in a level.
The technology has recently been recently ported to NVIDIA's CUDA platform[7].
Titles
Enlighten is incorporated into the Frostbite 2 engine[8], created by EA DICE studio. It can be seen in Battlefield 3[9], and Need for Speed: The Run. Enlighten has been licensed for a variety of other titles including Eve Online.
References
- ^ Financial Times, 02 February 2007, Page 4.
- ^ Develop Magazine, February 2008 [1]
- ^ EDGE Codeshop [2] February 2008
- ^ Game Developer Magazine, Vol16, No11, December 2009, Page 35
- ^ "Becoming Enlightened", Guardian Online, 05 February 2008 [3].
- ^ Sam Martin (Geomerics), Per Einarsson (DICE) "A real-time radiosity architecture for video games2, in "Advances in Real-Time Rendering,SIGGRAPH 2010
- ^ SIGGRAPH 2011, Real-Time Live!.
- ^ Kenny Magnusson (DICE) ,"Lighting you up in Battlefield 3", GDC 2011
- ^ EDGE, May 2011, p28-29