TGS Ships 3D-MasterSuite for C++; Adds Interactive 3D Data Visualization to VRML, PC and UNIX Applications.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1997-- Product delivers business charting and 3D visualizations to 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 Open Inventor Open Inventor, originally IRIS Inventor, is a C++ object oriented retained mode 3D graphics API designed by SGI to provide a higher layer of programming for OpenGL. Its main goals are better programmer convenience and efficiency. OI for short. framework; moves VRML beyond VR into corporate and engineering visualizations! Template Graphics Software, Inc. today began shipping the 3D- MasterSuite(TM) for 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). , Windows(R) NT and Windows 95 systems. 3D-MasterSuite allows C++ developers to quickly build interactive 3D graphics applications targeting a wide range of requirements, including simulation, interactive 3D, financial and engineering data visualization See information visualization. . The 3D-MasterSuite supports the distribution of business charting and powerful scientific visualizations over the Web using the emerging VRML Internet 3D standard, which 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 helped to establish. (The TGS Web site is at http://www.tgs.com and the 3D-MasterSuite site is located at www.tgs.com/HTML/Products/3dms.htm (VRML browser not required).) The 3D-MasterSuite tool set from TGS includes Open Inventor, VRMLMaster(TM), PlotMaster(TM), GraphMaster(TM) and 3D-DataMaster(TM) components. Open Inventor is a popular general-purpose 3D toolkit which provides a rapid application development framework for C++ developers. Initially licensed by TGS from Silicon Graphics, TGS is providing added value implementations on PC and UNIX platforms. In April 1995, TGS teamed with Silicon Graphics to establish VRML as a subset of the Open Inventor file format. Since then, applications developed using Open Inventor from TGS have been delivered to over 1,000,000 systems. The VRMLMaster Toolkit implements the VRML 2.0 specification as an extension to Open Inventor. VRMLMaster is among the first C++ toolkits to support VRML 2.0, enabling developers to take advantage of VRML in a broad range of simulation and virtual reality applications. PlotMaster(TM) extends Open Inventor, and VRML, to support vector hard copy devices, including the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. standard CGM (1) (Computer Graphics Metafile) An ISO/IEC standard format for 2D graphics images introduced in 1987. Primarily a vector graphics format for technical illustrations and geophysical visualizations, CGM also supports raster graphics and text. , HP-GL HP-GL - Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language and PostScript(R). The GraphMaster Toolkit is a powerful 2D and 3D graphing extension to Open Inventor. GraphMaster is tightly integrated with VRML standards, allowing applications built using this toolkit to create VRML-compliant charts and graphs for use on the Web. With this product TGS has made it possible to distribute business and financial visualizations over the Web using standard VRML. The 3D-DataMaster Toolkit extends Open Inventor, and VRML, into scientific and engineering visualization markets. Using 3D-DataMaster one can develop interactive 3D visualizations of voxels, contours, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. surfaces, and meshes. 3D-DataMaster delivers sophisticated control for clipping, dynamic data updates and more. ``VRML 2.0 is clearly designed for simulations and serious virtual reality applications on the Web, which is an important market, but ignores data-driven visualization for engineering, scientific and business clients,'' said Terry Baker, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TGS. ``While virtual 3D chat rooms are interesting, visualization is an untapped market for the Web. The 3D-MasterSuite is designed to take advantage of the standard VRML backbone, yet set the standard for true interactive visualizations to be developed for the desktop and for server applications.'' San Diego-based Template Graphics Software, Inc., along with TGS Europe in Bordeaux, France, produces cross-platform graphics software for Fortune 500, government, independent software vendor, and academic and research organizations. TGS has offered standards-based graphics tools for PCs and UNIX systems since 1982, and is the largest independent software tools supplier of products based upon 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), ANSI/ISO PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard) A graphics system and language used to create 2D and 3D images. Like the GKS standard, PHIGS is a device-independent interface between the application program and the graphics subsystem. +, Silicon Graphics' OpenGL(R) and Open Inventor(TM). In 1995, TGS teamed with Silicon Graphics to establish VRML 1.0 as a subset of Open Inventor and to deliver the first-ever VRML browser, Silicon Graphics' WebSpace(TM) Navigator, to major UNIX and PC systems. TGS is a leading provider of C++ and ActiveX(TM) 3D/VRML tools, viewers and products. Open Inventor and VRML developer and end-user tools from TGS are bundled by Microsoft Corporation for Visual C++(R) and by Digital Equipment Corporation for Windows NT Intel(R) and Alpha(R) systems. Template Graphics Software is a member of Microsoft Component Builders, Digital Internet Innovators, ANSI/ISO X3H3 graphics committees, the OpenGL Advisory Forum, the VRML Technical Forum, the VRML Consortium and is active in establishing new standards and directions for computer graphics technologies. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: IVF IVF in vitro fertilization. IVF abbr. in vitro fertilization IVF 1 In vitro fertilization, see there 2. Intravascular fluid , VRMLMaster, GraphMaster, DataMaster, 3Space, and the TGS logo are trademarks of Template Graphics Software, Inc. Silicon Graphics and OpenGL are registered trademarks, and Open Inventor, Molecular Inventor and Webspace are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through x/Open Company, Ltd. Microsoft, MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class , Win32, Windows, Windows NT, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Office and ActiveX 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. CONTACT: Template Graphics Software, Inc., San Diego Diane Connolly, 619/457-5359, ext. 260 Robert Weideman, 619/457-5359, ext. 229 robert@tgs.com 619/452-2547 (fax) http://www.tgs.com (WWW) |
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