As I recall when Lagoa's ICE-based multiphysics simulator first released with Softimage it was not bought, but licensed. Same thing with Mootz's Polygonizer that AD bundled with Soft.
That said, this year AD bought Lagoa Technologies, so now I'd assume they most certainly own it now. On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 6:48:54 PM Sven Constable <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, Bifrost will never come close to ICE because it's ADSK. Remember > what happenend to Lagoa. It was a bomb when it came out in 2010. Thiago > Costa did amazing work to release version 1.0 of Lagoa. ADSK bought it and > it never get any further attention. It was kept at version 1.0! No further > development and Lagoa got buried. I'm not saying that Lagoa is on par > with Houdini, it's surely not. But the power of Lagoa got wasted. > > sven > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Raffaele Fragapane > *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 12:34 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: H14 is out ! > > > > Maya has recently got pretty close to catching up to XSI 5 and in less > than another five or six years Bifrost should be on par with Moondust, and > now Houdini has almost caught up to XSI of Lagoa times. > > By this pace in less than 74 years for Maya, and only a dozen or so for > Houdini, we'll be where we would have been next year had Soft not been > killed! > > Totally looking forward to 2026 and 2089! > > The snow is pretty cool though :) > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Sven Constable <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Snow and sand reminds me of lagoa in Softimage on steroids. Go Houdini! >
