December 21, 1999

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

GHOST 3D RELEASES NEW SCRIBE-iT DIGITIZING SOLUTIONS.

December 21, 1999 -- GHOST 3D, LLC announces a new release of Scribe-iT™, an advanced 3D digitizing solution for portable articulated arm CMM devices. Scribe-iT and companion solutions provide unique state-of-the-art 3D data capture techniques, 3D modeling, design, visualization, reverse engineering, and reconstruction solutions for a variety of industrial applications. The software is available from the company's web site at www.ghost3d.com.

Scribe-iT is an advanced desktop 3D digitizing software solution that seamlessly integrates with various 3D digitizers such as MicroScribe and FaroArm CMMs. The software also supports native integration with leading 3D applications from Autodesk, including 3D Studio MAX, 3D Studio VIZ, Autocad, and others. The new extensions build on previous software tools from GHOST 3D, by providing an extensively interactive and flexible feature set. 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 3D modifier or trasformation can actually be applied during and as part of the digitizing and reverse-modeling process.

Scribe-iT also provides first ever implementation of animation support for portable arm CMMs - the most popular 3D interactive digitizing devices that use absolute transformation data streams to capture pitch, roll, yaw, and other forms of 3D data. 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 flythroughs of their models or product replicas. Digitizing has never before been so completely interactive.

Scribe-iT also uses a new RPS™ alignment system, that enables 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. Standard and metric units are supported.

Excellent reference documentation and new tutorials make advanced features and techniques easy to learn. To complete this professional 3D digitizing package, Scribe-iT also includes the robust Surf-iT 3D modeling solution (which is also available separately from GHOST 3D), providing powerful Spline-Patch modeling and surfacing. Surf-iT is exceptionally optimized for surfacing large digitized datasets created with Scribe-iT. The complete package empowers 3D designers, animators, artists, forensic professionals, manufacturers and other professionals with the unprecedented 3D interactive data capture and digitizing of objects, as well as complete modeling, resurfacing, and visualization of accurate 3D models.


Product features, licensing, and upgrade information is available from GHOST 3D’s website at http://www.ghost3d.com.


ABOUT GHOST 3D, LLC

GHOST 3D, LLC is a California based 3D technology developer and production studio. The company is continually innovating 3D concepts and applications, culminating into unique products and productions. Founding members have continued development activities with leading technologies such as those from Autodesk and Discreet, having had prior roles on Autodesk development teams for products such as 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, Character Studio. Part of GHOST 3D's team also contributed as design partner for Character Studio (the character animation technology behind the "Dancing Baby" phenomenon). Similarly, GHOST 3D collaborates with a variety of commercial partners to help bring their 3D solutions to life.
GHOST 3D develops both custom and commercial software solutions and techniques for industrial 3D productivity applications. Among others, GHOST 3D's products include the world's first fully interactive and integrated 3D digitizing, modeling and animation technology for leading 3D applications, shown recently to 50,000+ attendees at the world renowned 1999 SIGGRAPH convention in Los Angeles. Scribe-iT and other GHOST 3D products are available through a global distribution channel.
Additionally, while ever-testing and pushing the envelope of tools and production techniques, GHOST 3D produces impressive 3D content for various design, game, film, and television productions. 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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Trademarks: GHOST 3D, Scribe-iT, and Surf-iT are trademarks of GHOST 3D, LLC. Autodesk, 3D Studio, 3D Studio MAX, Character Studio, 3D Studio VIZ, and Discreet are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. MicroSoft and their marks are either registered or pending trademarks of their respective holders. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks are used solely for the purpose of identification and belong to their respective holders.