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Quote from the author’s website:

Aurora_Attractor is actually a suite of plugins designed to allow LightWave users the ability to explore, render and animate strange attractors.

Lost? So am I … but the following screenshots should give you an idea what the plugin is capable of:

Fxguide just published a great article on hdri and it’s history. From the beginning of hdr to the latest improvements. You can read this really interesting text Here.
oh, btw, i was browsing this nice site (read upper ) when i discovered this ‘also very interesting article’ dealing with rotoscoping .

Just received notice from Newtek that the latest Lightwave newsletter is online.
Nothing new or exciting unfortunately, but here is a summary anway:
Newtek are giving away the Siggraph 2005 DVD (US only unfortunately)
Lightwave 9 announced
Special limited time upgrade offer
Lightwave 8.5 64bit announced
Lightwave Artists Earn Four 2005 VFX Emmy Nominations
Lightwave Siggraph 2005 videos now online
40% off Tutor [...]

If you’re familiar with fluid animation, vfxworld.com as a really impressive article on fluid dynamics. Looks like future fluid-simulation tools are gonna be really efficient.
You can read the full article Here.
And for eye candy only (and those who don’t know him yet), be sure to have a look to the amazing work of Ron [...]

Ok, this website has been around for a while, but its impressive nevertheless. Matt Gorner, a uk based Lightwave artist, has taken the 7.5 and 8.0 Lightwave gui and shaken things up! The end result being the Lightwave vX interface. Take a look for yourself at the Lightwave vX Interface website.
PS: sorry its been 11 [...]

It seems PC owners may one day be able to run Lightwave on Mac OSX using their non-Apple approved Intel hardware
A leaked copy of Mac OSX build for the x86 platform has found itself onto the Internet and has promptly been modified to run on ‘most’ Intel based PCs.
Naturally you won’t be able [...]

That’s it, new fprime is out :
FPrime 2.0 is a free update. It adds HyperVoxel rendering support, much faster interactivity, print resolution rendering, and full G2 support to FPrime.
FPrime and G2 intercommunication requires the new G2, which is also available now. G2 support is seamless with no restrictions. All of the [...]

Are you also hitting F5 on your browser every two minutes?
Based on the current structure of the Newtek.com site the update should be available eventually here: http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/downloads/lightwave85.php
Afterall, the 8.3 update was available here …/lightwave83.php, the 8.2.1 update was available here …/lightwave821.php, the 8.2 update was available here …/lightwave82.php, and so on…
It might just give you [...]

The nice folks at Newtek have finally uploaded the videos and are now ready to be downloaded
http://www.newtek.com/shows/siggraph/2005/2005.php
Whilst we are talking about Siggraph content. I spotted an excellent review of Siggraph and the Newtek booth by pixeltek:
http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=39260

wanna check some cool lightwave screengrabs from siggraph 2005 ?
Here is a very interesting post on spinquad forums , you can check them HERE.