Toolbench: Multimedia 3-D and Virtual Reality

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3D/Virtual Reality
Title/Description Demo Available Students Available Faculty Tutorials Reviews Examples Company List Cost Educ. Cost
Bryce 3-D  and "dedicated to designing and animating breathtaking natural 3D worlds and abstract 3D landscapes while making the creative process every bit as entertaining as the final output." (version 4.0 available as of March, 1999). . students-(Hunter and Belk Labs, v3.0, 2c.)  no
  • Step by step projects to do in Bryce.
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  • PCWorld NewsóMarch 31, 1999.
  • The Internet Eye MagazineóMarch 24, 1999
    		•  Many web sites demonstrate Bryce applications. Corel $199.00 ?.
    Cinema 4-D  integrated 3D package combining modeling, animation and rendering, "Spectacular image quality, lightning fast workflow and rendering, and completely customizable. Create Broadcast Logos, Special Effects, Medical & Architectural Illustration, Multimedia Graphics" download demo none none .
  • Planet 3D Art   September, 2000
  • In Depth - Digital Art Community Review, September, 2000
  • MacAddict Freakin' Awesome!   September, 2000
  • DesignFreak.com   August, 2000
  • The Internet Eye Magazine July, 2000

    •      		 Maxon's Gallery Maxon . .
    Maya "3D modeling, rendering and animation solution that delivers all the tools and features needed to produce world-class animation and visual effects on Windows NT®, Windows® 2000 Professional, or Silicon Graphics IRIX workstations." . . . . . Maya Gallery Alias Wavefront $3000.00 .
    3D StudioPro Max  "provides a powerful 3-D modeling, rendering, and animation package for creative professionals. StudioPro is faster, easy to use and the results are incredible! Some of the new features include inverse kinematics, deformation, in-context modeling, extremely fast scanline rendering, texture compositing, particle effects, and hair."  . demo demo  . . . Kinetix . .
    Presenter 3D and Modeler "is recognized in the industrial and product design fields for its powerful, CAD-accurate and intuitive modeler and for its expansion into character and object animation. It offers high-powered spline and Boolean modeling, Digital Clayô sculpting, intuitive  camera, light, and microphone controls on a Digital SoundStageô, facial and lip sync animation, 3D Doppler sound effects, Real-Time  Surface editing, physics effects, Multi-Target Morphing, Explosion, a powerful ray tracer, and a blazing Phong shader." . . . . . . VIDI . .
    Cult3D, "the interactive 3D solution, allows companies and designers to easily build and display high-quality interactive 3D graphics for Web sites, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Acrobat. Targeted toward product visualization, e-commerce, distance learning, gaming and entertainment applications, Cult3D lets consumers fully interact and understand even very complex objects." 3D viewer download . . . . Cult3D Gallery . . .

    360 degree panorama tools
    PhotoVista PhotoVista is for Web designers who want to enhance visual communication on their Web sites with zoomable 360º panoramic images that visitors can experience, not just look at. PhotoVista turns a series of snapshots into a seamless panorama in minutes. Panoramic files are high-resolution and bandwidth-friendly -- so your images burst onto the screen. Now your site visitors can interact with high resolution panoramas in real time without a plug-in!" (PhotoVista is from ) , "the pioneer of resolution-on-demand imaging, which enables businesses and consumers to distribute and use photographic-quality digital images through low-bandwidth networks, including the Internet. LPI is the only company to offer a comprehensive suite of network imaging software solutions, including servers, authoring tools and client software." . demo same . . . Live Picture, Inc. . .
    Live Picture Reality Studio "is a complete tool set for building compelling Web content that reveals the quality of your products for sale on the Web. Web designers can develop photorealistic, fully immersive experiences, such as "walking through" a home for sale and zooming into images to see details, browsing an online storefront and examining closely items for sale, or viewing a realistic panorama of a travel destination. Visitors can examine images and objects in greater detail - by zooming in to see more detail, exploring all sides of a room, or picking up and rotating products such as appliances, cameras, and consumables." . demo . . . . . . .
    Quicktime VR, Virtual Reality.  . . . . . . . .
    SoundSaVR, MapSaVR, NodeSaVR and RevolVR, enhanced panorama effects demo downloads Squamish Media Group 15-199 25-50% off
    Roundabout Logic's NODEster (Mac)  . free demo . . . . . . .
    Freedom VR (Java- cross platform) . free . . . . . free free
    VR PanoWorx (Mac/Win) . demo . . . . . . .

    Virtus.    		 . . . . . . . .
    3D Webmaster . . 3D Webmaster FAQ. . . . .
  • 3D Studio Max (White's site)

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  • 3D Studio Max (Kinetix site)
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  • 3D Studio Max Tutorials
  • Tutorial - How To Make Bones 
  • 3DS tutorials
    		•  . . Kinetix (Autodesk) . .
    3D Studio VIZ no CATA Lab (SG320s) . . . Kinetix (Autodesk) . .
    Ray Dream Studio 5 . . . . . . . .
    Poser 3 . . . . . . . .

     

    3D Worlds - Selected VR Compositions (Completed or Ongoing)

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