Lumion

Lumion is a wildly disruptive, jaw-droppingly beautiful, and massively adopted platform that completely revolutionized the "Architectural Visualization and High-End Rendering" sector. Lumion does not design the CAD layout (you use SketchUp, AutoCAD, or Vectorworks for that). Lumion is the engine you import your CAD model into when you need to make it look like a $100 Million Hollywood movie. The absolute core differentiator of Lumion is its "Real-Time Visualization and Unparalleled Natural Environments." In legacy software, rendering a single image of a forest took a massive server farm 10 hours. Lumion uses the raw power of modern video game graphics cards to render hyper-realistic 3D oceans, incredibly dense forests with millions of leaves blowing in the wind, and stunning rain effects in real-time. Because it completely eliminated the agonizing wait times of traditional rendering and natively includes a staggering library of highly detailed 3D trees and plants, it is the absolute, unquestioned presentation weapon for elite global landscape architects.