TGS Inc. and Indeed Visual Concepts GmbH Sign Agreement to Distribute Amira 2.0.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1999-- Interactive 3D Tool for Advanced Visualization, Data Analysis and Geometry Reconstruction In Medical, Biological and Engineering Fields Indeed Visual Concepts GmbH, has selected 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 as the worldwide distributor for their flagship Amira software package. Amira 2.0 was developed using the latest release of the Open Inventor(TM) toolkit from TGS, version 2.5. Open Inventor is also being used to port the advanced visualization software to Unix, Linux and Windows NT platforms. TGS will be demonstrating Amira in booth No. 1361 during the Siggraph exhibition, August 10-12 in the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. . Amira is a 3D visualization and modeling system originally developed at the Department for Scientific Visualization of ZIB (Berlin, Germany). Indeed Visual Concepts has continued to develop and maintain the product. Initially utilized in medical treatment applications such as cancer therapy planning and the investigation of anatomical structures in neuro-biology, Amira has since been used in Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational fluid dynamics The numerical approximation to the solution of mathematical models of fluid flow and heat transfer. Computational fluid dynamics is one of the tools (in addition to experimental and theoretical methods) available to solve , Mechanical Engineering, and Geophysics and Physics simulation as well. Amira can provide a robust visualization solution for any project in which 3-dimensional data sets have to be processed and analyzed. TGS was selected because of its extensive experience with 3D graphics and visualization tools, such as Open Inventor, which TGS has ported to a wide range of Unix and Windows platforms. "In the graphics development tool market, we wanted to address experts in the field. No other company has as much local support, worldwide coverage and experience as TGS," noted Hans-Christian Hege, director of Indeed Visual Concepts, who added, "launching Amira 2.0 on the market for popular hardware platforms has been made possible by this strong collaboration." Open Inventor is one of the most popular object-oriented graphics development tools used today and is optimized for OpenGL, which is available on most hardware platforms. TGS, a source licensee of SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , assures Open Inventor support and expertise. "The contract with Indeed Visual Concepts is an acknowledgement of the quality of our graphics tools. Amira offers state-of-the-art visualization techniques which make the product the most advanced scientific visualization graphics tool on the market," stated Jean-Bernard Cazeaux, chief executive officer of TGS. Powerful, Versatile, Fast State-of-the-art visualization techniques allow the user to gain detailed insight into data. Graphics hardware is utilized to display even very large data sets at interactive speed. Powerful segmentation tools support processing of 3D image data. Robust reconstruction algorithms make it easy to create polygonal models from segmented objects. True volumetric volumetric /vol·u·met·ric/ (vol?u-met´rik) pertaining to or accompanied by measurement in volumes. vol·u·met·ric adj. Of or relating to measurement by volume. tetrahedral tet·ra·he·dral adj. 1. Of or relating to a tetrahedron. 2. Having four faces. tet meshes can be generated, suitable for advanced finite-element simulations. Data can be defined on a variety of different grids then investigated using a large set of powerful visualization methods. Multi-platform, Extensible Programming Amira 2.0 is available now on SGI, HP and Linux platforms. Thanks to Open Inventor from TGS, Amira will also soon be available on Sun and Windows NT platforms as well. Amira is an interactive 3D data visualization system targeted at scientists and engineers investigating complex phenomena represented by large data sets. It is an easy-to-use system with an intuitive visual-programming interface that does not require any additional hand-coded programming. Amira is also extensible. The object-oriented open design of the system allows for easy creation of new data type modules and IO-methods. Develop your own extensions with the Amira Developer Edition, or contact our experts for custom solutions. File Format Support Amira supports a wide variety of data file formats for data input or output. Among them are: TIFF (r/w 2D,3D), PGM/PPM (r/w), SGI-RGB (r/w), JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. (r/w), Dicom (r), ACR-Nema (r), HyperMesh (r/w), Leica LSM LSM Linux Software Map LSM Louisiana State Museum LSM Linux Security Module LSM Living Stream Ministry LSM Laser Scanning Microscopy LSM Legato Storage Manager LSM Land-Surface Model LSM Lutheran Student Movement LSM Logical Storage Manager Data (r), Binary Raw Data (r/w), Open Inventor (r/w), 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. (r/w), AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside Field (r/w), UCD UCD University College Dublin UCD User-Centered Design UCD University of California at Davis UCD University of Colorado at Denver (Denver, CO) UCD University of Colorado at Denver UCD Unicode Character Database (r/w), STL (STereoLithography) A 3D printing file format created by 3D Systems for its stereolithography system. Also supported by many numerical control, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing machines, STL provides the surface geometry of the item in triangles. (w), PLY (r/w), HxSurface (r/w), DXF DXF - Drawing Exchange Format (r,SGI), OBJ OBJ - Joseph Goguen 1976. A family of declarative "ultra high level" languages. Abstract types, generic modules, subsorts (subtypes with multiple inheritance), pattern-matching modulo equations, E-strategies (user control over laziness), module expressions (for combining modules), (r/w, SGI), Fluent/UNS (r/w). Amira and TGS, a Strategic Partnership Amira is part of TGS ongoing expansion of its 3D-toolkit Product Division. This Division currently includes C++ and Java 3D libraries, as well as specialized, market-driven extensions and components for Oil & Gas, Enterprise Visualization, Chemistry, Cartography cartography: see map. cartography or mapmaking Art and science of representing a geographic area graphically, usually by means of a map or chart. Political, cultural, or other nongeographic features may be superimposed. , GIS and VRML. The addition of Amira is a natural extension of the TGS visualization business to meet the changing needs of its customers. Because of basis on Open Inventor, and its application in 3D visualization markets, Amira meshes tightly with the TGS product line while simultaneously enhancing TGS offerings to its customers. Amira will allow TGS to meet the needs of the current and expanding client base of customers who need to visualize data quickly and easily, without the need for an extended programming process. Amira is a great addition to the TGS portfolio. Amira Availability and Pricing The Amira environment will be available for shipment in Q4-99 on: SGI Irix 6.x, 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. 10.20, Linux. Windows NT and Sun Solaris 2.6. The product has an introductory price of $4,000 for a single copy, with quantity and site licensing available. For more information about Amira v2.0, visit the TGS Web site at www.tgs.com. More about Indeed Visual Concepts Indeed -- Visual Concepts GmbH is a spin-off company from Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum (ZIB), a research institute in Berlin, Germany. Indeed provides highly innovative solutions in the fields of digital data analysis, visual representation, and visual communication. Additionally, the company performs specific developments in the areas 3D image processing, modelling, visualization, and virtual reality. The unique combination of profound knowledge in graphics and visualization as well as in natural and medical sciences enables Indeed to provide their customers with outstanding and specific solutions. High efforts in research and development guarantee that Indeed's products always represent the current state of the art. Indeed -- Visual Concepts GmbH is located Ihnestr. 23, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. For more information contact indeed@zib.de or visit http://amira.zib.de/Indeed. More about TGS TGS (Template(R) Graphics Software) develops 2D/3D graphics software applications for 3D design, Web publishing, multimedia, corporate and SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. business users on PC and Mac systems. The company also delivers professional 3D C++ and Java developer toolkits that are used by commercial, corporate and academic software developers on UNIX and PC systems. TGS software products enable the full spectrum of graphics creation and use, from rendering technology to network and enterprise visualization. A founder of the Internet 3D VRML standard and with over 1 million application seats deployed using TGS-licensed software, TGS is a recognized leader in the area of 3D graphics and VRML technology. For more information visit www.tgs.com. TGS Inc. is located at 9920 Pacific Heights Blvd., Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. The European Headquarters is located at Avenue Becquerel Becquerel (bĕkərĕl`), family of French physicists. Antoine César Becquerel, 1788–1878, was a pioneer in electrochemical science. , BP 227, F-33708 Merignac, France. TRADEMARKS: 3Space and Template are registered trademarks and 3D-MasterSuite and the TGS logo are trademarks of TGS Inc. OpenGL is a registered trademark, and Open Inventor is a trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. Amira is a trademark of Indeed, Visual Concepts. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT 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. |
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