October 23, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

NEW VERSION OF SCRIBE-IT, INTERACTIVE 3D CAPTURE / DESIGN / MANIPULATION SOFTWARE


October 23, 2002 -- GHOST 3D, LLC announces the release of a new version of its Scribe-iT™ 3D digitizing, capture and interactive design and manipluation software. The new relase of Scribe-iT includes the latest release of Surf-iT 3D modeling and surfacing tools, native support for various top-selling Autodesk 3D applications including 3ds max, Autocad, and Autodesk VIZ, and integrates with state-of-the-art portable CMM devices such as FaroArm and Microscribe. Scribe-iT and other 3D solutions from GHOST 3D are available through a worldwide network of resellers or directly online from http://www.ghost3d.com.

Scribe-iT offers innovative and fully interactive 3D design, capture, manipulation, digitizing and reverse engineering tools. 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.

Scribe-iT Desktop Digitizing software is currently in use by world-renowned film and television production studios, accredited Universities worldwide, major game developers and publishers, engineering and medical organizations, and even the US military.

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 3ds max modifiers can become part of the digitizing process. Artist/Animator Mitch Gates of REZN8 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 has been the premiere solution to provide fully interactive real-time manipulation and visualization for portable articulated-arm CMM devices, using dynamic and absolute transformation streams. Scrobe-iT is the first ever solution to offer a complete precision input system for 3D animation in real time by physically interacting with a precise CMM. Scribe-iT provides interactive camera manipulation and animation throughout digitizing process, and can be used to animate objects using a variety of animation controllers. Now 3D professionals 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.

The founders of GHOST 3D developed unique digitizing solutions and techniques that were the first of their kind to be made commercially available to 3D design and animation markets. Scribe-iT is the culmination of this dedicated experience as an evolved modular toolset with a planned support for new platforms and host applications.

Scribe-iT also employs a proprietary reference/registration system that allows greater flexibility for the operator to manipulate the digitized data objects without disturbing the accuracy or alignment with the digitizer digitizer's spatial coordinate system. This means that data objects can be modified and appended to with the digitizer without loss of time or work.

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 Autodesk 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 continues to be a leading pioneer in 3D digitizing, reverse engineering, modeling and animation tools.

Scribe-iT licensing, product, and upgrade 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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