Front Row, from left to right are:
Mor Rotbart-Award of Distinction in Visualization and Illustration, Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel;
James Diewald-Award of Distinction in Animation, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA;
Back Row, from left to right are:
Jeffrey R. Olgin-Award of Distinction in Architecture, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA; Bennett R. Neiman-Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA; Genki Harada-Award of Distinction in Product Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan; Yasuhide Yokoi-Honorable Mention in Product Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan; Sebastian Guevara Sinclair-Award of Distinction in Urban Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Dan Tesene-Award of Distinction in Fabrication, The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Po-Yi Lee-Award of Distinction in Interior Design, Tamkang University, Tanshui, Taipei, Taiwan.

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PRESS RELEASE
Columbus, Ohio- October 18, 2005

AutoDesSys is pleased to announce the 2005 form.Z Joint Study Program Awards. These were given out during the ACADIA conference, October 13-16, in Savannah, Georgia.

Currently in its 14th year, the form·Z Joint Study Program involves over 250 Universities and some high schools worldwide. This is a program with which AutoDesSys, Inc. supports and subsidizes the learning of the new digital tools, primarily 3D. At the end of each academic year AutoDesSys collects the projects that were created through this program and publishes the annual form·Z Joint Study Report. This has evolved into an event that documents the development and progress, as well as the excitement generated by computer aided design and 3D modeling education in institutions of higher learning. One of the traditions the program and its report have established is the presentation of annual awards for the exceptional work of deserving students. This year eight awards of distinction and eight honorable mentions have been granted. The nominated projects were divided in eight categories: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Urban and Landscape Design, Fabrication, Product and Industrial Design, Visualization/Illustration, Animation, and High Schools.

A distinguished international jury comprised of five individuals outside of AutoDesSys, but experts or theorists of computer aided design, selected the award winners in a setting that did not disclose names or school affiliations. The jurors were:
• Christian E. Allebosch, Industrial Designer, The Clever Lemon Co.
• Greg Conyngham, Integrated CADD Services
• Kelly Dove, Editor-in-Chief, Computer Graphics World
• Loukas Kalisperis, Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
• David Wolf, Architect, Architects Toolbox

All Awards of Distinction received a form·Z RadioZity license with one year technical support and updates. The winners of Awards of Distinction were invited, expense paid, to attend ACADIA 2005, where all the awards were officially announced. In addition, AutoDesSys will wave the processing costs of a 10-seat JS license for the school they attend, for next academic year. Honorable Mentions receive diplomas acknowledging the award with a one year user license.

All winners arrived in Savannah from four corners of the world to receive their awards at a dinner that AutoDesSys sponsored for all the conference attendees. Congratulations and prizes were extended by Chris Yessios, President and CEO of AutoDesSys, on October 14, 2005 to:

metaShapes.com releases plug-in shader

September 6, 2005

metaShapes.com is proud to announce the release of their first set of 3rd party plug-in shaders for AutoDesSys form·Z RenderZone and form·Z Radiozity.

The first release of metaShapes form·Z products contains five different shaders focused on different tasks and aimed towards product design visualization, architectural rendering, industrial design and general illustration.

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form·Z Plugin for Maxwell Released

September 1, 2005
NextLimit Technologies has released a plugin for form·Z 5.5 to support Maxwell (http://www.maxwellrender.com).

Maxwell is a new rendering engine based on the physics of real light. The plugin allows for the assignment of Maxwell materials to form·Z objects. Once the materials are established, the plugin transfers the scene including objects, lights and the viewing parameters to Maxwell for rendering.

The plugin is free for registered Maxwell users and can be downloaded from the Maxwell site. The plugin is available for Windows and Macintosh OS X.

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Explored, Designed, Delivered - Plugging In Prefab

August 4, 2005

How one firm in the UK uses form·Z to design prefabricated building elements. Follow the link below to read the article.
http://www.architectureweek.com/
2005/0803/tools_1-1.html