And the Technical Achievement Award goes "to Florian Kainz for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating-point, high dynamic range image files.

Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images."

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Since the Scientific and Technical Achievements were honoured with Academy Awards® we want to use the opportunity to express our gratitude.

We are happy that Florians outstanding work was rewarded with this award. We would not have been able to provide exrTrader for LightWave 3D without this very well documented piece of software engineering. Florian and his team made the adoption easy and they also released it as open source.

Thank you again.

 For those who want to know more about OpenEXR, please visit http://www.openexr.com/