JFP Announces to Distribute Its Natural Landscape Graphics Software Overseas.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MORIOKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000 JFP JFP Journal of Family Practice JFP Journal of Family Psychology JFP Joseph François Perrault (secondary school, Montreal, Canada) JFP Jacketed Flat Point (bullet type) JFP Japanese Feature Package Inc. has announced to distribute its computer software overseas which allows users to design natural landscape graphics as well as to create their own virtual gardens or a virtual Bonsai, a Japanese traditional dwarf tree dwarf tree, in horticultural practice, a tree artificially kept to a smaller size than is normal for average members of the species. This is usually accomplished either by limiting its root space and food and by careful pruning or by grafting it on the rootstock of a . JFP seeks for business partners who are familiar with business climate in each country. JFP developed "Digital Landscapes," a natural landscape graphics tool which is designed to allow the rendering of high quality natural landscapes including features such as trees, terrain, forests, and grasses. It includes simulations for tree growth and forest vegetation together with automatic modeling as well as 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" based on topographical erosion simulations. JFP also developed "Virtual Gardening" which allows users to design their own gardens. Users can plan out the design of their plot in a 2D environment. They can choose the type of house they want, window designs, gates, stones, lawn types, ponds, stepping stones
The Stepping Stones are three prominent rocks lying 0.5 miles north of Limitrophe Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island. , plants, trees and place them in their garden. They can also choose landscape features such as gradients for their garden. After this design stage, they can enjoy the results of their garden simulation through 3D graphics. "Digital Landscapes" was produced with the support of the Japanese Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet ), and "Virtual Gardening" with the support of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's Multimedia Content Association of Japan (MMCA (MultiMediaCard Association, Beaverton, OR, www.mmca.org) A membership organization founded in 1998 to promote the MultiMediaCard (MMC) storage module used in cellphones, PDAs and other small handheld devices. ). The tree growth simulation used in the software is based on research by Professor Norishige Chiba of the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering at Iwate University. System requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. for "Digital Landscapes" include SOFTIMAGE version 3. 7SP1 or later, a Windows NT 4.0 or IRIS 5.3 graphics workstation and "mental ray" (R) for volume forest shading. "Virtual Gardening" requires Windows95, Windows98 or Windows NT4.0. Complete system packages of "Digital Landscapes" will be priced at (Yen)500,000 while individual packages will be (Yen)100,000. The price of "Virtual Gardening" is (Yen)8,800 (excluding tax and postage). |
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