From: i3dadm@sgvenus.cern.ch
Subject: ANNOUNCE: i3D V1.1b available for SGI workstations
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 20:23:04 GMT
Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics


From: i3dadm@sgvenus.cern.ch

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, December 5, 1995

The VENUS group at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland is happy to announce the
availability of version 1.1b of i3D, a High-Speed 3D Web browser.

The main new features of this release is the support of the
Multi-Channel Option for SGI Onyx RealityEngine and RealityEngine2
workstations as well as SGI Indigo2 Impact workstations. MCO support
makes i3D the only 3D browser able to provide rich depth cues such as
binocular perception to a large number of participants through video
projection and passive polarized glasses. This feature is being used
at CERN during design meetings where LHC engineers discuss the latest
design of LHC premises and equipment using interactive navigation and
stereo rendering.

This release incorporates also a lot of improvements and bug fixes to
i3D, with respect to version 1.0. In particular, i3D now supports
OpenGL multi-sample extension, accepts JPEG and Compuserve GIF images
for texture definition, and offers improved navigation. Unsupported
binaries are available for Silicon Graphics Workstations running Irix
5.3 and having support for OpenGL rendering. This software is provided
free of charge without warranty of any kind from CERN.

i3D is brought to you by the VENUS project at CERN. i3D v1.0 was
developped by Jean-Francis Balaguer and Enrico Gobbetti at the SciViz
Group of CRS4. Its development is now being carried over by the VENUS
project at CERN.

More info can be found at http://sgvenus.cern.ch/i3d/.

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