Artbeats' City Surfaces Covers New Ground; 3D Developers Can Access Over 90 High-Resolution Textures for Building Virtual Cities.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 1997--Artbeats Software, Inc., a leading developer and publisher of background content for prepress and multimedia users, has announced the addition of City Surfaces to the company's comprehensive collection of royalty-free CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). seamless texture titles. City Surfaces contains over 90 images suitable for surface mapping on 3D objects and as tiled backgrounds for print applications. These textures will give users a new source of material for building virtual environments that is currently not available on the clip-media market. Artbeats is also responding to the demand for VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. content. "A significant number of our users are asking for 3D surface maps to be used on the web," said Phil Bates Phil Bates has been a part of many bands including Trickster, Quill and was the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for ELO Part II from 1993 through to 1998. Born in Tamworth in 1953, Phil grew to love music from the age of 10 after having heard The Beatles for the first time , president of Oregon-based Artbeats. "The idea of a user navigating a street with realistic buildings, storefronts and sidewalks may become a popular alternative to menu bars and buttons." City Surfaces includes seamless high-rise, single-story, storefront, sky, street, sidewalk and parking lot textures. In addition, useful accessories include a teller machine, parking meter, signs and manhole covers. They are provided as 72 dpi PICT and TIFF files in three sizes averaging 256 x 256, 512 x 512 and 1024 x 1024 pixels. The high-resolution files are suitable for screen display, film and printing applications and all of the images are licensed for Internet, broadcast and game developers. The images were sourced from drum-scans of medium format (2.25" x 2.75") transparencies that were photographed in various urban locations. They can be imported into any 3D rendering or multimedia application that supports PICT or TIFF graphics on Mac, PC and Unix platforms. Matching bump maps, reflection maps and glow maps of the images have also been included where applicable. City Surfaces is a companion product to Exteriors which contains seamless tiles building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . and was introduced on August 1, 1996. These products are part of an ongoing series of 3D surface collections in production by Artbeats. Pricing and Distribution City Surfaces will retail for $249 and will be distributed through Educorp, MacWarehouse, Publisher's Toolbox and sold direct from Artbeats. Profile Artbeats, headquartered in Myrtle Creek, Ore., was founded in 1989 to develop and publish digitized images for use on Macintosh, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and compatible personal computers. Artbeats products include REELTextures, Leather & Fabric, Marble & Granite Volumes 1 and 2, Marbled mar·bled adj. 1. Made of or covered with marble: a marbled façade. 2. Having a mix of fat and lean: a well-marbled beef roast. Adj. 1. Paper Textures, Wood & Paper and Exteriors. Clients include: Disney, Paramount Pictures, Pacific Bell, Sears, IBM, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , First Interstate Bank, Xerox and Johnson & Johnson. The company distributes its products in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . CONTACT: Artbeats Software, Inc. Julie Hill, 541/863-4429 facts@artbeats.com http://www.artbeats.com or For Artbeats Software, Inc. Valerie Hoover, 847/291-8422 Ext. 273 (Press Contact) |
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