Leading Graphic and Design Innovators and Systems Vendors Adopt Technology for
Cross-Platform, 3D Application Development and Deployment
NEW ORLEANS, SIGGRAPH 2000, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- A growing number of
innovators in the graphics and design communities are using Java 3D technology
for cross-platform, 3D graphics application development and deployment,
including SDRC, Brigham and Women's Hospital, WebScope, Improv Technologies
and INT.
The Java 3D API is a network-centric, scene graph-based API, which enables
programmers using Java technology to do 3D visualization over the network.
This open 3D graphics programming interface is used by developers in a broad
range of areas, including game and educational software development, data
visualization, mechanical computer-aided design and engineering (MCAD/MCAE),
and digital content creation (DCC).
"Technical computing is moving to the web or networked services model, and
Java 3D is enabling developers to incorporate 3D graphics with powerful and
flexible tools," said Kirk Mosher, technical Java group manager for the
Workstation Products Group at Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW). "With its growing
acceptance in the graphic, design and software development worlds, Sun's Java
3D technology has become the leading cross-platform 3D visualization tool for
the networked, collaborative enterprise."
SDRC
With the recent release of I-DEAS 8, a collaborative e-design automation
application, SDRC has leveraged the latest version of Java 3D technology by
incorporating it into a new Web browser interface for the I-DEAS set of
solutions. The interface displays a full, three-dimensional thumbnail image
of a part or assembly with improved performance and enhanced functionality
versus previous browsers.
"Users will be able to take advantage of the enhanced model viewing
performance of the solutions using Java 3D technology," said Bill Carrelli,
senior vice president of marketing, SDRC. "They will be able to work and
manipulate complex part and assembly images quickly and easily, thanks to this
advanced 3D technology."
Brigham and Women's Hospital
The Surgical Planning Lab, part of the Department of Radiology at Brigham
and Women's Hospital, develops software tools to bring the power of imaging
and graphics to new areas of medicine. SPLViz is an application using Java
3D technology that displays anatomical models and cat- or magnetic resolution
imaging-scans of patients to assist doctors during diagnosis and surgery.
"The ability to clearly view advanced 3D images will help with the diagnosis
and treatment of patients," said Dr. Ron Kikinis, director, Surgical Planning
Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital. "We expect
the 3D capability that the Java technology gives our doctors and surgeons to
be better than imaging technologies used in the past."
Webscope
WebScope is one of the first Internet solutions for real-time
collaboration and communication built 100 percent with Sun's Java 2 and Java
3D technologies. WebScope's Java technology-based foundation makes it unique
in its ability to offer maximum scalability, universal access, and especially,
maximum security. Coupled with Java 3D technology that enables real-time
visualization, high-quality rendering, professional shading and flexible
lighting, WebScope is able to offer the highest-caliber Internet product
collaboration tool available to today's global manufacturing companies.
"The Java 3D technology extends Java into Collaborative Commerce applications
which 3D product information," said Randy Nickel, vice president, marketing,
WebScope. "Java 3D technology is not just an API, rather, it is the critical
enabling technology for advanced collaborative product commerce applications."
Improv Technologies
Improv Technologies has introduced a new digital media authoring software
that uses a full range of Java technologies, including Java 3D, Java 2D, Java
Advanced Imaging and Java Media Framework. The software allows developers to
design, edit and integrate all forms of multimedia, including 2D and
3D animation, streaming audio and video, bitmap and vector graphics, and text
with complete interactivity in an Internet-based collaborative work
environment.
"Sun's Java 3D technology gives our authoring software a powerful
3D component that works with other multimedia types and enables users to
develop full, cross-platform content," said Athomas Goldberg, president and
chief technology officer, Improv Technologies. "The next generation of
applications will need 3D technology like Sun's to create complete content
solutions."
INT
INT's J/View3D is a high performance Java 3D technology toolkit, designed
to simplify the creation of sophisticated 3D graphics for interactive data
visualization and analysis. The J/View3D solution extends the
Java 3D technology to offer easy creation of 3D objects, enhanced picking
selection behaviors and support for axis annotation.
"Companies are under pressure to maximize the value of their information.
A J/View3D solution using Java 3D technology steps up any company's ability to
view and analyze complex images and data," said Paul Schatz, vice president,
business development, INT. "The effective management and utilization of
information is critical to competitive positioning and success, regardless of
industry."
For more information about Java 3D go to
http://www.java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D.
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