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DigiPlasty
Project Incorporates 3DCompress |
Phoenix, AZ,
April 2003. Artist
James Stewart has announced his collaborative
digital sculpture project called DigiPlasty.
Currently it is displayed at the Burton
Barr Central Library in Phoenix, Arizona.
View some of his artwork.
Click on the last circle in the digiplasty
design. A description of this work may be
found by clicking here. |
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Informative
Graphics wins Desktop Engineering award with
3DCT embedded technology |
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ModelPress was designed
to simplify the distribution of 3D CAD models.
The system reduces model sizes in the range
of 70-98%, and compresses models into IGC’s
ISF format, readable by the company’s ModelPress
Viewer and Myriad 6.0 (Service Pack 2 or
higher).
The published ISF model file
can be visualized and measured, but not
copied or modified. The Viewer can be embedded
in a web page or desktop application. CAD
models can be viewed from the desktop or
local network, and can be distributed outside
the firewall via the web. The ModelPress
Publisher supports Autodesk Inventor 3D,
SolidEdge parts and assemblies, SolidWorks
parts and assemblies, IGES, STL, VRML, 3D
AutoCAD (non-ACIS), and 3DS. |
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3DCT
develops a 3D Web Export Plug-in for the Rhino
NURBS modeler |
Phoenix,
AZ, April 2003.3D Compression
Technologies has recently created a 3D web
export plug-in for the Rhino
NURBS modeler. The 3DCT Web Export Rhino
plug-in lets you export your models to a file
that is viewable on a web page. Our free
ActiveX control/Netscape plug-in viewer can
easily be used by anyone to examine your models
without Rhino. The file uses our advanced
compression technology, so it is small and
fast to download. Texture maps, material properties
and vertex normals are all preserved. |
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Rhino
is a highly functional, accurate,
and affordable modeler for Windows.
Rhino provides the tools to accurately
model your designs ready for rendering,
animation, drafting, engineering,
analysis, and manufacturing. Rhino
also supports polygon meshes and point
clouds. |
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Laser
Graphics Manufacturing Adopts 3DCompress for
3D Proofing of Architectual Plans |
Phoenix, AZ,
November 2002.
Laser
Graphics Manufacturing, a Colorado firm
with 10 years experience, has developed
a new 21st century breathrough in architectural
modeling. Concurrent Modeling / Rapid Prototyping
is a fast computerized state of the art
process that can be implemented more quickly
at an earlier stage of the design process.
It is very flexible, allowing for numerous
design changes. The clients’ blueprints
or computer aided design files go to LGMs
3 dimensional printer and their model is
made in hours or days instead of weeks or
months. Multiple copies can be made in any
variety of sizes. New design changes can
be incorporated at any point and new models
printed just as quickly. LGMs’ new rapid
modeling process has a wide variety of benefits
including facilitating community acceptance,
increasing early sales opportunities and
reducing financing costs.
LGM has adopted 3DCompress
to aid in communication with their clients.
Models are posted for client approval ("3D
proofing") before the 3D model is constructed.
LGM also uses 3DCompress for sending models
via emails -- 3D emails. |
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Informative
Graphics and 3DCT Announce Licensing Agreement |
Phoenix, AZ - October
10, 2002 - Informative Graphics
Corp. (IGC), a leading manufacturer of Web
collaboration software, and 3D Compression
Technologies, Inc. (3DCT), a company providing
component technology for 3D data compression,
today announced a licensing agreement to
integrate 3DCompress into Informative Graphics'
3D Web publishing products.
Through years of research,
3DCT has developed complex mathematical
algorithms to achieve unprecedented compression
rates at 70% to 98% of the original model
size. The end-result is high scalability
and exceptional performance, which will
enable IGC to create a publishing paradigm
that preprocesses 3D data for secure, Web-based
distribution and viewing. By focusing on
compression and not server-side streaming,
IGC can deliver a truly scalable and easy-to-deploy
system for large 3D data sets typically
found in CAD assemblies. Streaming requires
server-intensive computing that degrades
rapidly under load and requires the user
to always be on-line to do visualization.
"Our agreement with 3D
Compression Technologies signals a new advancement
for Web-based content and is an important
part of our overall future product strategy,"
said Gary Heath, CEO and President of IGC.
"Although the benefits of 3D visualization
are well understood, it isn't widely deployed,
primarily due to the sheer size of the data
files, the concerns over granting access
to editable native CAD files and the cost-per-seat
of 3D software. 3DCT compression is a key
component in addressing all of these issues
and making 3D on the Web truly practical."
Dr. Anshuman Razdan, CEO of
3DCT added, "High compression ratios and
fast decompression with a small memory footprint
is the key to making 3D data ubiquitous
on the web and mobile devices and 3DCT's
technology achieves just that. We are very
excited to be partnered with Informative
Graphics to extend this core value for downstream
CAD usage. It is clear that both companies
share the vision of making 3D on the web
more of a reality - not because it is just
'cool' but because it is useful."
IGC's soon-to-be-released
ModelPress
3D Web System will utilize 3DCT's compression
technology to shrink large 3D models when
converting them to IGC's ISF file format.
Initial testing results show significant
performance improvements regarding transfer
and load times, especially on low bandwidth
network connections.
About Informative Graphics
Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC),
founded in 1990, is a leading developer
of commercial software products for Web
publishing, visualization, and collaboration.
IGC products are renowned for their cost-saving
value, ease-of-use, features and scalability.
With its products deployed by hundreds of
corporations, OEM partners, and service
providers worldwide, IGC is an international
company maintaining offices in the United
States and Europe, as well as key distribution
partners in Japan, Asia and Latin America.
The company maintains a Web site at www.infograph.com.
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IntegrityWare
& 3DCT Develop a Partnership Agreement
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Phoenix, AZ, February
2002. Now, in 3DCompress v1.1.0,
the functionality of POPLib by IntegrityWare,
Inc. is available. POPLib is the leading
edge solution for 3D polygonal mesh creation
and modeling. This opens up a world of possibilities
for your POPLib 3D polygonal content by making
it practical to share this data with clients
on the internet. |
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3DCompress
Facilitates Display of Vertabrae Paleontology
Museum Collection to a Broader Audience |
Austin,
TX, November 2001. The
Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory of the
Texas Memorial Museum of The University of
Texas at Austin has integrated 3DCT's compression
technology to allow researchers to share scanned
specimens across the web. Funding for scanning
was provided by a National Science Foundation
Please visit the
DigiMorph project to view this mouse skull
in interactive 3D. |
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Wohlers
Report Impressed by 3DCT |
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Fort
Collins, CO, September 2001.
Terry Wohlers, author of the Wohlers
Report, commented on 3DCT & 3DCompress:
... Its speed, clean interface,
and impressive compression ratios
are sure to turn heads. 3D models
can be slow and bulky, so your timing
with this software is good. The team
of people that you've assembled is
impressive, so I'm confident that
the company and its products will
thrive in the future. |
Wohlers
Associates, Inc., started in 1985,
and it is a consulting firm that provides
technical, marketing, and strategic
advice on the new developments and trends
in product design, prototyping, tooling,
and manufacturing. |
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3DCT
Enters the Scene at SIGGRAPH 2001 |
Los
Angeles, CA, August 2001. 3DCT
will share booth space with Cyberware
in order to promote 3D data compression
for laser scanned data. 3DCT will emphasis
this point by distributing fact sheets
on 3Dcompress. Visit Cyberware at Booth
#1933! |
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3DCT's 3DCompress
will be a part of The
Studio. Also, 3DCT will give a presentation
on Wednesday at 9:30am. Please stop
by! The Studio is a "hands-on"
experience for attendees who want to
collaborate with advanced digital systems
and each other to generate 2D and 3D
creations. Artists, scientists, and
engineers can walk in, create and realize
their ideas. |
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3DCompress
Aides Surgical Planning |
Golden,
CO, July 2001. Medical
Modeling LLC of Colorado processes
CT and MRI scans, converting the data
into triangle meshes that define the
bone structure of the patient. This
3D virtual model is then transformed
into a physical form using rapid prototyping
(RP). Because the RP process is lengthy
and costly, it is important for the
surgeons to verify that the virtual
model contains adequate information
for the surgical planning. With 3DCT's
technology, surgeons can quickly see
the virtual model on the web. The skull
model is an example of 3DCT's technology
applied to the medical industry. The
original file size was 25MB. Using 3DCT's
compression, it was reduced 96% to 854K
(less than 1MB). |
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Cyberware
Appreciates Benefits of 3DCT's 3DCompress
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Monterey,
CA, June 2001. Cyberware
manufactures a complete line of 3D Laser
Scanners. Some of Cyberware's scans
may be found on our Demos page.Cyberware
is well known for 3D geometric modeling
in the entertainment industry with accolades
for working on movies such as The
Abyss and Jurassic Park.
According to Steve Adleman, VP of Cyberware:
I am not happy with any of the other
web viewing options we have. Your product
was very easy to run and the best I
have seen so far. |
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Informative
Graphics Corp. Enhances EDM with 3DCT's Technology
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Phoenix,
AZ, April 2001. Informative
Graphics Inc, a software application
developer in the EDM market, is integrating
3DCT's technology into their Myriad
Product. Informative Graphics develops
visualization, collaboration and publishing
products for intranets, internets, extranets,
and E/PDM. |
We
are excited to use the black box technology
from 3DCT and use it in our Client Server
product strategy for viewing large and
complex 3D documents, said Gary
Heath, President of Informative Graphics. |
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