HOOPS 3D Application Framework v8.0 Released by TSA; Collision Detection, Enhanced Visual Fidelity, Extended Geometry Types Highlight Latest Toolkit Delivery.Business Editors/High Tech Writers OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002 With this latest release, Tech Soft America (TSA TSA See tax-sheltered annuity (TSA). ), the leading provider of graphics components to the engineering software industry, continues to deliver high-powered development tools to serve the engineering ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. marketplace. TSA's 150+ OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers include companies such as SolidWorks, PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , Autodesk/CaiCE, MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. .Software, Fluent, Hitachi Zosen, Famotik, CADKEY, COADE, ITI/Transcendata, Infrasoft, Hitachi Zosen, Caterpillar and Boeing. HOOPS/3dAF serves as the core graphics engine in numerous leading applications. As an extensible, high-level framework, HOOPS/3dAF dramatically simplifies the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D/3D applications. Shipping products based on HOOPS/3dAF range from lightweight web viewers to high-end CAD and 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. applications running on Windows, 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). , LINUX, and even Windows CE-based handheld devices. Highlights of the many customer-inspired enhancements in HOOPS/3dAF v8.0 include: -- Collision Detection: Applications needing to determine whether the facetted representations of their objects collide with one another may easily do so via a new HOOPS/3dGS API. -- New Geometry Types: A new PolyCylinder primitive will be particularly powerful for applications in the plant, power and shipping industries, which must efficiently handle large volumes of pipes, tanks, arrows or tubes. Other new geometry types include Capping Planes, Shell Regions, and scalable markers and line/edge weights. -- Visual Fidelity : A new, hardware-accelerated lighting model significantly improves the look of shaded scenes. Hardware accelerated Anti-Aliasing and Phong shading, as well as significant enhancements to HOOPS' transparency algorithms combine to increase the realism of real-time HOOPS rendering. -- Model/View Operator (MVO) Additions: New classes have been added for object manipulation as well as creation and management of Markup data. -- HOOPS Net Server Module Enhancements: HOOPS Net Server (HOOPS/Net) is an optional server-side module which may be used in conjunction with HOOPS/3dAF for applications requiring functionality such as real-time collaboration or on-demand streaming. New performance enhancements have been added to this module as well as additional logic for streaming sub-elements of a file on demand. "At Famotik we have been very pleased with the power of the HOOPS 3D Application Framework and how quickly we have been able to build custom applications for the Japanese marketplace. HOOPS 8.0 continues TSA's reputation as a company who understands the needs of their customers and delivers leading-edge 3D component technology", commented Takashi Yoshida Cyber Kong (born July 3, 1982 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese wrestler for Dragon Gate. He currently is in the New Hazard stable & previously in Muscle Outlaw'z. Biography He is the first graduate of the Dragon Gate USA dojo. , Technical Director for Famotik. Added Gavin Bridgeman, Co-Founder and Member of Technical Staff for TSA, "In addition to extending HOOPS' historic strength is raw performance, we have focused this release on delivering increasingly realistic rendering without sacrificing speed. We are certain that our growing list of customers will again be pleased with the pace of our innovation and the extent of our responsiveness." About Tech Soft America Tech Soft America (TSA) provides premier customer driven development tools, consulting and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services enabling their partners to rapidly deliver world-class technical software. TSA develops the HOOPS 3D Application Framework, HOOPS Stream Toolkit and HOOPS Net Server, which dramatically simplify the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for desktop or browser-based applications running, Windows, Unix and Linux, Windows CE-based handheld devices. HOOPS 3D technology has been incorporated into over 150 commercial software applications, from such leaders as PTC, SolidWorks, Autodesk/CAiCE, MSC.Software, CADKEY, Fluent, Infrasoft, COADE, ITI/Transcendata, Minitab, SPSS A statistical package from SPSS, Inc., Chicago (www.spss.com) that runs on PCs, most mainframes and minis and is used extensively in marketing research. It provides over 50 statistical processes, including regression analysis, correlation and analysis of variance. , and Landmark Graphics. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California “Oakland” redirects here. For other uses, see Oakland (disambiguation). Oakland (IPA: /ˈoʊklənd/), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. and can be reached at http://www.hoops3d.com. HOOPS is a registered trademark of Tech Soft America. |
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