Bored with Same Old Web Decorations? ParaGraph International Brings Morphing Capabilities to Internet with MorphInk; Internet's First Fully Automatic Sketch Animator Allows Web Developers To Effortlessly Create Bandwidth-Friendly Original Web Animations.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1997--ParaGraph International, the world's leading producer of 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. 2.0 and digital-ink technologies, today announced MorphInk, the first Web authoring tool that enables web developers to create fast and easy Web animations with automatic morphing capabilities. MorphInk allows smooth, animated drawings to be created with a mouse and features extremely compressed files resulting in fast, on-line delivery. The animated files produced with MorphInk are supported by Microsoft Explorer with ActiveX(TM) controls or can be viewed with a plug-in viewer for Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. . MorphInk is available now for a suggested retail price of $39.95 from ParaGraph's Web site, www.paragraph.com, or by calling 1-800/810-0055. ParaGraph will demonstrate MorphInk at Spring Internet World at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. , March 12-14, at booth no. 4748, Kentia Hall. "While other Web animation products are costly, hard to learn and require time-intensive production, MorphInk is refreshingly easy to implement," said ParaGraph International's Leonid Kitainik, VP of ParaGraph's Consumer Division. "MorphInk delivers truly original morph drawings for today's Web designer at an unbeatable price." About MorphInk MorphInk is the first product in the new InternetInk product family introduced by ParaGraph International. MorphInk widens the creative spectrum Web developers tap into by bringing the following advanced features to their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. : -- Fast'n'Easy Web Animation - MorphInk guides the developers drawing process, then delivers animation with the touch of a button. -- Truly Automatic Morphing - With just a few creative movements of the mouse, MorphInk will magically bring drawings to life by converting sketches into animations. -- Smooth, `Pen-like' Line Drawings with a Standard Mouse - ParaGraph International's unique filtering technology gives a standard mouse the power to draw smooth lines as if they were created with a pen. -- Extremely Small Files for Speedy On-line Delivery and Playback - Based on ParaGraph's patented HodoGraph Hod´o`graph n. 1. (Math.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the (TM) ink compression technology, MorphInk's animation produces small and quickly viewable files which average only 5 to 10K in size. -- Navigator Plug-in and ActiveX Control A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of the program. for Web Viewing - MorphInk efficiently works with established technologies for viewing animation on the Web. About ParaGraph Founded in 1989, ParaGraph International, Inc. is a leader in the development of Internet Virtual Reality (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) and Internet Digital Ink (IDI IDI ICC (International Cricket Conference) Development International Conference) IDI Israel Democracy Institute IDI I Doubt It IDI Initial Domain Identifier IDI In-Depth Interview ) software technologies and products that enable millions of home pages to utilize 3D and multi-user communications in a variety of formats. ParaGraph was the first to bring cross-platform VRML 1.0 and VRML 2.0 authoring tools for the PC to market (Virtual Home Space Builder 1.0 and 2.0 for Windows(R) and Macintosh(TM)). ParaGraph's engineers have taken a leadership role in the development of all three critical IVR standards and standards proposals, including VRML 2.0, VRML Avatars ("Living Worlds") and the VRML Binary File A computer file format in which each character position can hold any one of 256 different binary codes. Binary files are contrasted to "ASCII files," which contain a smaller set of codes for only alphabetic letters, numeric digits, special symbols and a few control codes. format. ParaGraph's patented compression and recognition technologies enable efficient multi-user implementations of digital ink over the Internet. ParaGraph's team of 100 world-class scientists, engineers and digital artists is located in the Silicon Valley and Moscow. ParaGraph's corporate customers include many of the world's most respected corporations such as Apple, Disney Online, 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) , Microsoft, Mitsubishi and others. CONTACT: The Terpin Group Roger Maes/Jim Rivas, 415/344-4944 rmaes@terpin.com, jrivas@terpin.com |
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