Mothership Technology Announces IGES Transporter for MultiGen Creator

New Software Offering Expands Range of Source Models for Import to MultiGen Creator

LONDON, April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Training and Education Conference (ITEC) -- Mothership Technology, the developers of this new product, today announced IGES Transporter(TM) for MultiGen Creator(TM), a plug-in to Creator, MultiGen-Paradigm's comprehensive toolset that enables rapid generation of optimized object models, high-fidelity site-level terrain and synthetic environments for use in realtime 3D visual simulation, urban simulation and general visualization applications. IGES Transporter will provide tools that allow modelers to quickly and efficiently model directly from CAD and animation-package data. MultiGen-Paradigm will be demonstrating this new functionality in its ITEC booth #526.

The IGES Transporter, developed by Mothership Technology, allows sophisticated curved surface models that use NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline) surfaces to be imported directly into MultiGen-Paradigm's MultiGen Creator. NURBS models, traditionally only used in high-end computer-aided design and manufacturing and commercial animation packages are being used more and more in modeling and simulation due to the flexibility they offer and the ability to describe complex shapes effectively and accurately.

The NURBS Transporter module enables files in IGES 5.3 format to be brought into Creator for conversion to realtime-ready polygons and optimized into industry-standard OpenFlight files. The degree of tessellation of the models is under the user's direct control, and the resulting polygon mesh can then be easily manipulated, restructured, and processed as part of the Creator scene. The plug-in also contains polygon reduction technology licensed from Systems in Motion, makers of Rational Reducer. These technologies combine, in one product, the most flexible single source available to take NURBS models to become realtime-ready content. Whether control over initial surface-to- polygon tessellation, or polygon-to-polygon reduction, Creator users have fast, easy, and close control about re-purposing IGES models for realtime 3D visual simulation applications with this new product.

"Mothership Technology recognizes MultiGen Creator as the premier realtime 3D modeling toolkit for the vis-sim industry," states Mike Barsham, CEO of Mothership Technology. "By integrating our IGES conversion technology with Creator, we are expanding modelers' ability to create realistic content for interactive simulations more easily."

"The IGES Transporter is a valuable addition to Creator," says Sandeep Divekar, CEO of MultiGen-Paradigm. "Mothership Technology is an expert in developing NURBS-based visualization capabilities, and its enhancement of Creator with the IGES Transporter plug-in validates MultiGen-Paradigm's strategy to make our products as flexible as possible to meet the specific needs of our customers."

Availability

The IGES Transporter for MultiGen Creator will be available in Q3 2004. 

About Mothership Technology

Mothership Technology is a UK-based company specializing in high- performance rendering of spline-based 3D graphics data. Their sophisticated 3D graphics engine addresses the 3D viewing needs where fast performance is required. The speed of the graphics engine means that it offers the ability to load and render large files -- of the order of 300Mb. The advanced rendering provides high quality images and is enabling CAD data to be integrated into marketing, training and e-learning functions without any intermediate processing. With the inclusion of System in Motion's polygon reduction technology, Mothership is delighted to make this functionality available to users of MultiGen-Paradigm's Creator.

About MultiGen-Paradigm

MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc. leads the industry in providing commercial-off- the-shelf, realtime 3D simulation software tools and solutions to interactively create and run visual and sensor simulation, simulation-based training, urban simulation and 3D GIS visualization applications. 

www.multigen-paradigm.com

 

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