Portable Graphics Announces Hardware-Accelerated OpenGL and Open Inventor 2.1.1 for HP Workstations.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1996--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 the release of a hardware-accelerated implementation of OpenGL, and the Open Inventor 3D Developer's Toolkit for HP 9000 J-Class, C-Class, and Series 700 graphics workstations. Special extensions allow applications to obtain the maximum possible performance from PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. based graphics workstations. Using HP's Starbase graphics API, OpenGL gains transparent access to the power of HP VISUALIZE, HCRX, CRX CRX Civic Renaissance Model X (Honda automobile model) CRX Cone-Rod Homeobox-Containing Gene CRX Civic Renaissance Experimental (Honda) , and integrated 8-bit graphics adapters. Also included are OpenGL Utility Libraries, which set up common viewing orientations, perform windowing For Northcoast Where we call someone over and then roll our window up on them. Bassline preference. For Example: "Hey, Andi." *insert window being rolled up* "HAHAHA. operations, and tessellate tes·sel·late tr.v. tes·sel·lat·ed, tes·sel·lat·ing, tes·sel·lates To form into a mosaic pattern, as by using small squares of stone or glass. advanced surfaces. OpenGL supports HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. 9.07 and 10.10 or higher, and is fully compliant with the OpenGL specification and compliance tests adopted by the OpenGL Architectural Review Board (ARB). HP selected Portable Graphics to implement OpenGL on HP's VISUALIZE graphics workstations, due to Portable Graphics' extensive technical understanding of 2D and 3D graphics applications. This agreement with HP to develop OpenGL for HP systems demonstrates how Portable Graphics has significantly extended its relationship with HP and HP software developers. Portable Graphics also supplies NPGL NPGL Non Planar Graphics Library , a porting tool that allows applications developed with Silicon Graphics' proprietary IRIS GL graphics library to run on HP workstations. "We are very pleased that Portable Graphics is releasing OpenGL for our graphics workstation family," said Mark A. Canepa, general manager of HP's Workstation Systems Division. "Their technical expertise and experience with our graphics products has resulted in a superior product that when combined with our workstations, provides a powerful combination for our customers, especially in the advanced visualization market." "By providing a quality hardware-accelerated version of OpenGL for HP, Portable Graphics offers developers an implementation that fully exploits the speed and graphics capability offered by HP workstations," said Portable Graphics President Bhupi Bhasin. "This joint effort between HP and Portable Graphics expands the market for all HP 3D graphics developers and provides additional graphics performance." Open Inventor 2.1.1 provides HP developers with a complete development solution. Open Inventor is an object-oriented developer's toolkit which simplifies and accelerates the process of writing high-performance, interactive 3D visualization and animation applications. HP developers can now increase their programming productivity 10 to 50 times over using straight OpenGL. New enhancements in version 2.1.1 include a node for locate highlighting, an "all-in-one" manipulator, three nodes that support 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 (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. ), and increased performance and efficient memory use. All previous releases of Open Inventor (versions 2.0 and 2.0.1) have been made obsolete by Silicon Graphics, Inc. HP is the world's leading supplier of open enterprise computing and is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer revenue of $25.3 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. HP has been delivering PA-RISC based business computers since 1986 with high reliability, data integrity, data availability and systems availability. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communication and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 102,300 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. Portable Graphics provides graphics software developers with open-system, cross-platform porting and development solutions for GL-based 3D visualization applications on a variety of platforms. The company is the leading third-party supplier of GL, OpenGL, and Open Inventor on workstations and PC platforms. -0- Note to Editors: OpenGL and Silicon Graphics are registered trademarks, and Open Inventor and IRIS GL are trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. NPGL is a trademark of Portable Graphics, Inc. PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture, reduced-instruction-set computing. CONTACT: Portable Graphics Debbie Herrington, 512/719-8007 or Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Worldwide David Harrah, 415/968-4033 (for Portable Graphics) or Hewlett-Packard Company Heidi Wilson, 508/436-5096 |
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