There are several parts to Lux's rendering API:

LuxRays

This library handles ray intersection on OpenCL devices. More information can be found on the wiki: LuxRays overview

LibLux

This library is the full LuxRender system. Its API is C-style and exposed via api.h.

PyLux

This is an OO python wrapper around the C API, providing access to LuxRender via the python programming language.

PyLux is documented here: PyLux Documentation.

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New exporter for Carrara

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Resuls of the 'Math is beautiful' contest

Congratulations to Moure who won the competition, and to SATtva and Piita for their second and third places. This has been a really great competition, you can find all the entries and the results in the forum.

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Voting for 'Math is beautiful/Abstract wallpaper' is open

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