HP and Portable Graphics Announce Accelerated OpenGL For HP Workstations.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1995-- Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) and Portable Graphics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (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 ), today announced that Portable Graphics will develop, sell and support a hardware accelerated implementation of OpenGL for HP 9000 family of graphics workstations. The product is expected to be available in the first quarter of 1996. "Providing the foremost accelerated OpenGL for HP workstations enhances our leadership as a supplier of quality OpenGL and Open Inventor solutions," said Bhupi Bhasin, president of Portable Graphics. "Combined with HP's legendary strengths in graphics technology, this opens up a new level of capabilities for 3-D graphics software developers." "With OpenGL for HP, developers will be able to compose superior high-performance 2-D and 3-D graphics on HP workstations," said Mark A. Canepa, general manager of HP's Workstation Systems Division. "This is particularly beneficial for our growing base of developers in areas such as oil and gas, animation, digital studio and visualization." Portable Graphics' implementation of OpenGL will fully utilize HP's graphic acceleration for 3-D systems, and HP's Color Recovery technology to create true color visuals (24-plane) on low-cost (8-plane) graphics workstations. It is being designed to be fully compliant with the OpenGL specification and compliance tests adopted by the OpenGL Architectural Review Board (ARB). OpenGL Utility Libraries -- which contain routines using lower-level OpenGL commands to set up specific viewing orientations and projections matrices, perform polygon tessellation In surface modeling and solid modeling, the method used to represent 3D objects as a collection of triangles or other polygons. All surfaces, both curved and straight, are turned into triangles either at the time they are first created or in real time when they are rendered. and render surfaces -- will be included. OpenGL is a vendor-neutral, open application programming interface for developing high-performance 2-D and 3-D graphics applications to support a range of computers, from PCs to workstations to supercomputers. With this agreement, Portable Graphics extends its relationship with HP and HP software developers beyond providing NPGL NPGL Non Planar Graphics Library , a porting tool that allows applications developed with the IRIS GL graphics library to run on HP workstations. Austin, Texas-based Portable Graphics provides graphics software developers with open-system cross-platform porting and development solutions for GL-based 3-D visualization applications on a wide variety of platforms. The company is the leading third-party supplier of GL, OpenGL and Open Inventor on workstations and PC platforms. HP is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer-related revenue of $19.6 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 99,900 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. -0- For more information, contact Portable Graphics at 3006 Longhorn The code name for the Windows Vista operating system. After the client version was renamed "Vista" in 2005, Longhorn referred to the server version until it was officially named Windows Server 2008 in May of 2007. See Windows Vista. Blvd., Suite 105, Austin, TX 78758. Ph: 512/719-8000; Fax 512/832-0752. E-mail: glware@portable.com. CONTACT: Copithorne & Bellows for HP Tim Hurley, 617/252-0606 or Portable Graphics Debbie Herrington, 512/719-8007 or Edelman Worldwide for Portable Graphics Debbie Young, 415/968-4033 |
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