CEI Releases Three New Products, Goes Live with Redesigned Web Site.APEX, N.C. -- In a day certain to become a milestone in the company's history, CEI CEI Competitive Enterprise Institute CEI Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (Italian bishop conference) CEI Central European Initiative CEI Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano (Italian Electrotechnical Committee) has released three new products and launched a newly designed web site. Today's product launch includes EnSight 8.2, the latest version of CEI's extreme visualization software; EnSight Lite, new software that delivers essential features of EnSight at half the price; and EnVe 2.0, the latest version of the company's software for editing multiple animation segments into a complete movie. Personalized GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. with Python The most prominent new features in EnSight 8.2 are a user-defined GUI with Python scripting, automatic cluster rendering, and new texture mapping In computer graphics, the application of a type of surface to a 3D image. A texture can be uniform, such as a brick wall, or irregular, such as wood grain or marble. The common method is to create a 2D bitmapped image of the texture, called a "texture map," which is then "wrapped around" capabilities. The user-defined GUI feature enables users to easily design an interface based on their unique workflow, macros and preferences. A new command dialog allows users to see, modify and define macros, as well as execute Python scripts. Users can enhance the current EnSight GUI or replace it entirely with a GUI created in Python. "The user-defined interface provides a great deal of flexibility through Python to expand EnSight's GUI or create your own custom GUI," says Dr. Jeff Jortner, principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New . "It provides one-click access to specialized functionality that would take many clicks in other programs." Automatic cluster rendering Cluster rendering in EnSight 8.2 is now fully automated, removing tedious configuration tasks that users face with other programs. "EnSight 8.2 makes it easier than ever to take advantage of the software's powerful distributed rendering capabilities," says Jortner. "CEI has brought parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. to the user's desktop in a completely transparent manner." Automatic cluster rendering in EnSight is an extension of CEI's Server of Server (SoS) functionality. SoS can read any of the more than 60 solver formats that EnSight reads. In the new implementation of SoS, users simply open a solver file and tell EnSight how many servers they will be using for processing. EnSight automatically decomposes the dataset on the fly and distributes load-balanced work portions to available servers. Seeing data in new ways EnSight 8.2 gives users the ability to read and apply 2D textures to any part of a model. Texturing can be used to map photos or 2D images onto models for increased realism, or to visualize data in new and illuminating ways. In EnSight 8.2, transparency is part of a color palette Also called a "color lookup table," "lookup table," "index map," "color table" or "color map," it is a commonly used method for saving file space when creating 8-bit color images. . Different percentages of transparency can be applied to more precisely display a wide range of phenomena. The hood of a car, for example, can be transparent where stresses are low, and opaque to show stress values within a significant range. During development of EnSight 8.2, texture mapping was tested by the CANMET CANMET Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology Energy Technology Center in Ontario, Canada, to visualize flame characteristics in industrial gas burners. "The new 2D texturing capabilities are very promising for industrial flame visualization," says Dr. Eddy Chui, senior research scientist at CANMET. "In the past, we've not been able to see through the isotimic surfaces to fully visualize the 3D structure of a flame. Now, we can see a 3D representation with depth based on calculated 3D data. This will be quite helpful for analyses and diagnoses of flame characteristics." Lite in name only CEI's EnSight Lite, announced in May, is aimed at small- and medium-sized companies, large companies looking to maximize their visualization investment across the enterprise, and academic institutions. "EnSight Lite represents the most advanced visualization functionality ever offered at this price point," says Darin McKinnis, CEI's vice president of marketing and sales. "It offers the powerful core visualization features used by the world's leading engineering and scientific organizations, and provides an easy migration path to other products in the EnSight family." EnSight Lite supports every major CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. solver for finite element See FEA. , CFD CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics , structural, crash, dynamics and hydrocode analysis. It runs on 32-bit platforms, including Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. EnSight, EnSight Gold and EnSight DR support 64-bit platforms. "EnSight Lite fills an important niche in the visualization market," says Craig Makens, director of sales and marketing for ThermoAnalytics, a leading provider of heat-transfer analysis software. "Our customers will use EnSight Lite in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with our RadTherm, WinTherm and MuSES software; to post-process combined thermal and CFD results; and as a cost-effective way to add more visualization seats." Direct your own video EnVe 2.0 makes it easier than ever for users of EnVideo, CEI's free video viewer, to do virtual cut and paste To move an object from one location to another. When the operation is complete, there is nothing left in the original location. It may refer to relocating files from one folder to another or to relocating selected text or images from one document to another. of animation segments for seamless presentations. It includes a new point-and-click GUI, Python scripting language, and support for new file formats, including MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 4 and QuickTime on all platforms. New and improved web site In conjunction with its new product launches, CEI has gone live with a new web site (www.ensight.com) that provides a richer user experience and easier navigation. A new online gallery enables visitors to browse images produced using CEI's EnSight; Harpoon harpoon (härp  n`), weapon used for spearing whales and large fish. The early type was a flat triangular piece of metal with barbed edges and a socket for attaching a wooden handle, to the , the extreme mesher; and Kraken Krakengiant snakelike sea creature. [Dan. Folklore: Merca tante, 194–195] See : Monsters , CEI's solution for visualizing geology and reservoir engineering datasets. A new section showcases customer application stories for the different industries that CEI serves. In the future, the site will include online, graphics-based tutorials for EnSight and Harpoon. About CEI CEI offers a suite of tools for engineering and scientific simulation, including meshing, plotting, animation and data visualization. The company's software can be run on every type of computer, from laptops to clusters to supercomputers. It interfaces seamlessly with all popular CAE software and most scientific research codes, and can drive the most advanced VR displays. CEI has corporate headquarters in Apex, N.C., and authorized distributors around the world. Images available upon request. |
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