Mirai is a 3D creation and editing suite available originally from Nichimen Graphics Corporation, later from Winged Edge Technologies, and currently from Izware. The modeller uses the

winged edge In computer graphics, the winged edge data structure is a way to represent polygon meshes in computer memory. It is a type of boundary representation and describes both the geometry and topology of a model. Three types of records are used: verte ...

data structure, is written in Common Lisp, and traces its lineage to the S-Geometry software from

Symbolics Symbolics, Inc., is a privately held American computer software maker that acquired the assets of the former manufacturing company of the identical name and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp (programming language), Lisp sy ...

.Symbolics' legacy in Mirai
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/ref> It has been used primarily by game developers and high-end character animators—for example by

Bay Raitt Bay Leaf Raitt is an American artist, 3D graphic novelist, animator and video game developer. He was the Creature Facial Lead for Gollum in the '' Lord of the Rings'' movie trilogy and worked at Valve Software for 9 years. Career Raitt worked ...

's facial morph targets for the Gollum character in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy.

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The Two Towers: Face to Face with Gollum
{{Common Lisp 3D graphics software Common Lisp (programming language) software

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