First VRML 2.0 C++ Toolkit Delivered By Template Graphics Software Included As Free Bundle With Open Inventor Product.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1996--Template Graphics Software Inc. (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 ) Friday announced the immediate availability of Open Inventor(tm) for Win32 version 2.2, which includes a free bundle of the new VRMLMaster(tm) toolkit 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. 2.0 from TGS. A pioneer in establishing 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. (VRML) Internet 3D standard, TGS is the first vendor to provide C++ and ActiveX(tm) products for the development of VRML 2.0 applications. TGS is a licensee Open Inventor from Silicon Graphics Inc., and provides added value implementations across major 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). (R) and PC systems. Open Inventor for Win32 version 2.2 also includes performance gains delivered through direct support for OpenGL 1.1, as well as enhancements to the Interactive Visual Framework (IVFtm), a TGS 3D extension to Microsoft Foundation Classes (programming) Microsoft Foundation Classes - (MFC) Software structures in C++, the Windows base classes which can respond to messages, make windows, and from which application specific classes can be derived. (MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class )(R). Microsoft provides IVF IVF in vitro fertilization. IVF abbr. in vitro fertilization IVF 1 In vitro fertilization, see there 2. Intravascular fluid and portions of TGS interactive 3D graphics products on Visual C++ 4.x. Microsoft also included the TGS Visual 3Space(tm) Control ActiveX(tm) component on the new Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. Starter Kit. Open Inventor for Win32 from TGS, which includes IVF, is the most popular and widely used toolkit for creating interactive 3D graphics applications using C++ and MFC. Since VRML is a subset of Open Inventor's feature set, applications developed using Open Inventor can automatically support distribution via the Internet. Open Inventor for Win32 from TGS is available for 32-bit Windows, supporting Digital Alpha, Intel, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (R) and PowerPC platforms running Windows NT(tm) and Windows 95(R). TGS also revealed that applications developed using Open Inventor for Win32 and IVF have been distributed to more than 1,000,000 Windows NT and Windows 95 systems in the past year, and that Microsoft has delivered the IVF 3D extension to MFC to more than 400,000 developers worldwide. Applications developed using Open Inventor for Win32 from TGS span a number of markets, including AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission , CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. , PDM, simulations, visualizations, virtual reality and VRML authoring/browsing. The product is popular with corporate, commercial and academic developers worldwide. TGS also provides integrated products for molecular visualization, 2D/3D charting and graphing as well as high-end 3D data visualizations utilizing voxel and iso-surface representation. Open Inventor for Win32 v2.2, including support for VRML 2.0, is available only from TGS, its G5G subsidiary in Europe and TGS Authorized Distributors throughout Europe and Asia. Development licenses are available for $995 U.S. and $1,250 Internationally, and include a 30-day, money-back guarantee with free support and upgrades. TGS also includes lifetime access to extensive TGS World Wide Web Support services. The product can be downloaded from http://www.tgs.com/ and can be purchased via credit card or purchase order at 619/457-5359, ext. 251. Academic and volume discounts are also available. San Diego-based Template Graphics Software, along with its subsidiary G5G in Bordeaux, France, produces cross-platform graphics software for Fortune 500, government, independent software vendor and academic and research organizations. TGS has offered standards-based graphics tools for PCs and UNIX systems since 1982, and is the largest independent software tools supplier of products based upon the 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. +, Silicon Graphics' OpenGL(R) and Open Inventor(tm). A VRML pioneer, TGS teamed with Silicon Graphics to deliver the first-ever VRML browser, WebSpace(tm) Navigator, and is a leading provider of C++ and ActiveX(tm) 3D/VRML tools, viewers and browsers. TGS Open Inventor and VRML developer and end-user tools are included by Microsoft Corp. for Visual C++(R) and the Internet Explorer Starter Kit, and by Digital Equipment Corp. for Windows NT Intel(R) and Alpha(R) systems. Template Graphics Software is a member of Microsoft Component Builders, Digital Internet Innovators, ANSI/ISO X3H3 graphics committees, the OpenGL Advisory Forum, the VRML Technical Forum and is active in establishing new standards and directions for computer graphics technologies. -0- NOTE: IVF, VRMLMaster, GraphMaster, DataMaster, 3Space and the TGS logo are trademarks of Template Graphics Software Inc. Silicon Graphics and OpenGL are registered trademarks, and Open Inventor, Molecular Inventor and Webspace are trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc. Microsoft, MFC, 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) 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. : http://www.tgs.com or The Townsend Agency, San Diego Julie Reynolds, 619/457-4888 619/453-7010 (fax) |
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