Evans & Sutherland Invests In Template Graphics Software; TGS Acquires E&S Subsidiary Portable Graphics Inc.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 30, 1996-- TGS TGS Tokyo Game Show TGS Ticket-Granting Service TGS Ticket-granting Server TGS The Good Shepherd TGS Teen Girl Squad TGS The Gargoyles Saga TGS Texas Gourd Society TGS Tomato Growers Supply TGS Trinity Grammar School TGS Tomographic Gamma Scanner extends 3D/VRML product leadership, continues aggressive growth strategy Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. (E&S) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ESCC ESCC Eastern Shore Community College ESCC East Sussex County Council ESCC Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma ESCC Enhanced Serial Communication(s) Controller ESCC Electrically Self-Calibrating Cavity ) and privately held Template Graphics Software Inc. (TGS) Monday announced that E&S has purchased a minority interest in TGS through a combination of cash and assets. As part of the deal, TGS will acquire 100 percent of the E&S subsidiary Portable Graphics Inc., currently based in Austin, Texas. San Diego-based Template Graphics Software is the leading supplier of interactive 3D graphics tools and utilities for PC and UNIX systems used by Web masters and desktop publishers as well as commercial, corporate and academic 3D developers worldwide. Portable Graphics competed with TGS in the area of OpenGL and Open Inventor Open Inventor, originally IRIS Inventor, is a C++ object oriented retained mode 3D graphics API designed by SGI to provide a higher layer of programming for OpenGL. Its main goals are better programmer convenience and efficiency. OI for short. graphics toolkits for developers. The acquisition of Portable Graphics allows TGS to extend its leadership position in these markets. ``We're impressed with the strength of the TGS organization and the acceptance of TGS products, particularly for the Windows NT and Windows 95 platforms,'' said Jim Oyler, chairman and chief executive officer of Evans & Sutherland. ``The investment in TGS by E&S is another example of our commitment to deliver affordable high-end 3D hardware and software to Windows NT.'' ``The investment in Template Graphics Software by E&S is a strong endorsement of our current success and our growth plan,'' said Terry Baker, president of TGS. ``The acquisition of Portable Graphics allows us to expand our development organization and continue to deliver market-leading solutions for 3D graphics developers and end users.'' TGS products include implementations of Silicon Graphics' OpenGL(R) and Open Inventor(TM) C++ toolkit, the 3Space(TM) Control ActiveX(TM) component for Microsoft Visual Basic(R) and Internet Explorer, the 3Space Explorer 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. browser, the 3Space Assistant CAD/VRML viewer for Microsoft Office and 3Space Publisher, an interactive 3D authoring application for Windows NT and Windows 95(R). Software products from TGS have been selected by Microsoft Corp. for Visual C++ and the Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. Starter Kit, which is bundled with Windows 95. Digital Equipment Corp. ships versions of TGS 3Space Assistant with every new Windows NT Alpha and Intel workstation sold. A pioneer in the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (virtual reality, language) Virtual Reality Modeling Language - (VRML) A draft specification for the design and implementation of a platform-independent language for virtual reality scene description. VRML 1.0 was released on 1995-05-26. http://vrml.org/. Wired. , an Internet 3D standard, TGS was selected by Silicon Graphics to implement the PC version of WebSpace Navigator, the first-ever 3D/VRML browser. TGS is a founding and charter member of the VRML Consortium and is a corporate sponsor of the San Diego Supercomputer Center's VRML Repository. Evans & Sutherland Evans & Sutherland manufactures hardware and software for highly realistic visual systems that produce high-quality 3D graphics and synthetic environments. The company has delivered visual systems for simulation and training to the civil aviation, defense and commercial industries, including museums, planetariums and location- based entertainment centers. E&S was founded in 1968 and has headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. . Visit the E&S Web page at http://www.es.com . Template Graphics Software San Diego-based Template Graphics Software is the largest supplier of PC and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). software products based upon Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), ANSI/ISO PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard) A graphics system and language used to create 2D and 3D images. Like the GKS standard, PHIGS is a device-independent interface between the application program and the graphics subsystem. +, OpenGL(R) and Open Inventor(TM) standards. A pioneer in VRML and 3D graphics, TGS delivers 3D graphics tools and applications targeting commercial, scientific, engineering, visualization, desktop-publishing and Internet markets. Open Inventor-based tools and 3Space(TM) end-user applications from TGS are bundled by Microsoft for Visual C++(R) and the Internet Explorer Starter Kit, and by Digital Equipment for Windows NT(TM) Intel(R) and Alpha(R) systems. Teamed with Silicon Graphics, TGS initiated 3D/VRML in April 1995 with the first-ever VRML browser, called WebSpace(TM) Navigator. Template Graphics Software is a founding and charter member of the VRML Consortium; is a corporate sponsor of the VRML Repository; is a member of the Microsoft Component Builders, Digital Internet Innovators and ANSI/ISO X3H3 graphics committees, the OpenGL Advisory Forum and the VRML Technical Forum; and is active in establishing new standards and directions for computer-graphics technologies. The TGS Web site is at http://www.tgs.com . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: IVF IVF in vitro fertilization. IVF abbr. in vitro fertilization IVF 1 In vitro fertilization, see there 2. Intravascular fluid , VRMLMaster, GraphMaster, DataMaster, 3Space Technical and the TGS logo are trademarks of Template Graphics Software Inc. Visio is a trademark of Visio Corp. Silicon Graphics and OpenGL are registered trademarks and Open Inventor, Molecular Inventor and Webspace are trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc. Microsoft, MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class , Win32, Windows, Windows NT, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Office and ActiveX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. CONTACT: Template Graphics Software Inc., San Diego Diane Connolly, 619/457-5359 619/452-2547 (fax) http://www.tgs.com (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. ) diane@tgs.com or info@tgs.com |
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