March 20, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

GHOST 3D RELEASES NEW VERSIONS OF SCRIBE-IT ADVANCED 3D DIGITIZING SOLUTIONS.


March 20, 2001 -- GHOST 3D, LLC announces today new releases of its Scribe-iT™ software, providing advanced 3D digitizing solutions, and native integration with Autodesk's top-selling 3D software. The software is avaialble through a worldwide network of resellers or directly online from http://www.ghost3d.com.


The Scribe-iT advanced desktop digitizing software seamlessly supports a variety of portable arm CMMs and 3D digitizers including MicroScribe and FaroArm CMMs. The new releases continue to build on GHOST 3D's extensive, flexible, and fully interactive 3D data capture, digitizing, modeling and editing solutions for industrial and 3D design applications. Customers can rapidly build accurate 3D computer models from physical objects with Scribe-iT’s versatile feature set by simply placing the digitizer probe on physical surfaces and automatically inputting the 3D datasets. Scribe-iT provides flexible Spline creation tools, controllable NURBS conversion, Mesh creation, and unique Mesh Strips creation to assist 3D artists, animators, engineers and designers alike.

One of Scribe-iT’s most significant highlights is the ability to convert modified digitized objects back to the creation state for appending data. This means almost any standard and third party modifiers and transformations can become part of the digitizing process.
  Artist/Animator Mitch Gates of Jones Film & Video explains,
     "I needed to bring [my sculpture] Bubba into the virtual world, and still allow for small enhancements to the 3D model’s surface. The Scribe-iT plug-in for 3D Studio MAX allowed me to work back and forth between my sculpture, the 3D model, and the necessary MAX modifications I wanted to incorporate."

Scribe-iT debuts as the first ever implementation of animation support for the MicroScribe digitizers - the most popular 3D interactive digitizing devices that use absolute transformation data streams. Scribe-iT provides interactive camera manipulation and animation (during the digitizing process), and can be used to animate linked objects using a variety of animation controllers. Now modelers can also navigate their digitized surfaces at accurate scale from any angle for fantastic fly-throughs of their models or product replicas. Digitizing has never before been so completely interactive.

Scribe-iT also uses a new reference points system, that actually allows the operator to move and rotate the 3D object in the scene as well as the physical object, while still enabling re-alignment of the physical object and 3D object to the digitizer's spatial coordinate system. There is also true real world Metric compatibility.

Excellent reference documentation and new tutorials make such advanced features easy to learn. To complete this professional digitizing package, Scribe-iT also incorporates the robust Surf-iT modeling kit (which is also available separately from GHOST 3D), providing the most powerful Spline-Patch modeling and surfacing in 3ds max and 3D Studio VIZ. This combination empowers 3D artists, animators and designers with unprecedented speed and quality in surfacing 3D Spline objects, and is exceptionally optimized for surfacing large digitized datasets created with Scribe-iT. With these recent releases of Scribe-iT and Surf-iT, GHOST 3D enhances the power to capture and model in 3D, underscoring it’s mission to innovate as a leading edge developer for state-of-the-art 3D modeling and animation tools.

Additonal product and licensing information is available from http://www.ghost3d.com.


ABOUT GHOST 3D, LLC

GHOST 3D, LLC is a California based 3D technology developer, production studio and service bureau (www.ghost3d.com). The company innovates custom techniques and productivity solutions for 3D Modeling and Animation processes, 3D Digitizing, Design, Rapid Prototyping, CAD/CAM extensions, Visualization and 3D Visual Effects. GHOST 3D's 3D modeling and animation solutions are consistently used professionally in product design, entertainment, television and film. The company's founders are responsible for inventing unique 3D digitizing, surfacing and reconstruction solutions that are the first of their kind to be made commercially available to 3D design and animation markets. Subsets of these proprietary technologies and unique methods have been made available via plug-ins for 3ds max, Autodesk VIZ and other platforms. Commercialized products and services are available directly via GHOST 3D's web site, and through worldwide distribution and reseller channels. Founding members have maintained close ties with Autodesk, Discreet, and others, including roles on both the original 3ds max and Character Studio development teams, and through involvement as a design partner (Character Studio is the character animation technology behind the "Dancing Baby" phenomenon). GHOST 3D continues to expand its products and service offerings to a growing number of 3D-related professions and communities through partnerships with industry technology leaders. From the development and marketing of industrial tools and solutions to the generation of creative productions and design, GHOST 3D is immersed in the 3-dimensional digital world.


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