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Enlighten is the leading real time global illumination solution for game developers.

Enlighten computes diffuse indirect lighting using radiosity. Unlike other radiosity solutions, Enlighten lets you move and change lights and materials at runtime.

The development of Enlighten started in 2006 and saw major distribution with the release of Battlefield 3 in 2011 and updates to ongoing massively multiplayer online game Eve Online. According to the company, "Enlighten's revolutionary technology ensures that, for the first time, lighting can be updated in real time, in game, on today's consoles."

In December 2013 ARM, a Cambridge-based mobile CPU and GPU designer, acquired Geomerics, "for a number of reasons but foremost was Enlighten, Geomerics' award-winning technology for real-time lighting" said Dennis Laudick, ARM's vice president of partner marketing. The terms of the deal were not made public.

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